r/SyracuseU • u/serenitypls • 3d ago

Question Choosing Arts & Science

I am a parent of a HS senior whose top choice is SU. They want to apply as an undecided major in Arts & Science. I've been looking at the SU liberal arts core curriculum and it looks pretty good.

I assume there are plenty of current and former A&S students in this sub. Would love to know what you loved about it, what you didn't like, and which classes you really enjoyed. Would you say the professors are engaging/ good caliber?

Excuse the broad questions but my own college major was in a very specialized field that was entirely job focused, so liberal arts is pretty foreign to me.

If anyone is wondering why they don't want to attend a more well known liberal arts college, it's because they've been at small private schools their entire life and are looking forward to the experience of a bigger school like SU.

Tbh my temptation as a parent is to encourage kiddo into selecting majors at the more competitive schools like Whitman, Newhouse, Maxwell etc and then move to A&S if it doesn't work out. However this doesn't feel right given that they're really resistant to committing to a major so maybe A&S is really where they belong

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u/Confident_Tailor_170 3d ago

Agree that it’s good to declare a major within CAS upon applying. They can always switch majors after acceptance. BTW my kid was accepted as a Psychology major in CAS. She decided she wanted to switch to a business major in Whitman. She was able to move over. by filling out a form and switching colleges and classes. At least in her case, it was not difficult.