Changing my major before I start college?

FutureLieutenant

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I received a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship starting Fall '10 with my intended major being civil engineering. After taking the math placement test at my school and doing bad (placed into college algebra), I realized that this will definitely set my graduation date back. In order to graduate in 4 years as a civil engineer, you have to start out taking calculus. Now I will be taking college algebra->trig->pre-calc->calc. (I took pre-calc honors senior year and was hoping to go straight to calc)

This brings me to my point. I would rather major in something that I would truly enjoy (Philosophy) and graduate on time, then do something I don't think i'm going to enjoy and not graduate on time. Does the Army let you change your major from something like Engineering before you even start school, or will I just have to suck it up since that's the major I had on my application?
 
I received a 4 year Army ROTC scholarship starting Fall '10 with my intended major being civil engineering. After taking the math placement test at my school and doing bad (placed into college algebra), I realized that this will definitely set my graduation date back. In order to graduate in 4 years as a civil engineer, you have to start out taking calculus. Now I will be taking college algebra->trig->pre-calc->calc. (I took pre-calc honors senior year and was hoping to go straight to calc)

This brings me to my point. I would rather major in something that I would truly enjoy (Philosophy) and graduate on time, then do something I don't think i'm going to enjoy and not graduate on time. Does the Army let you change your major from something like Engineering before you even start school, or will I just have to suck it up since that's the major I had on my application?

I'm kind of in the same situation. Can anyone help us out on this?
 
I changed my major from biology to international studies back in february after I had gotten a scholarship. I simply emailed cadet command and they switched everything for me. Try that, I know the Army isn't as strict as the Air Force or Navy when it comes to majors so they should okay the switch.
 
It might be made more difficult, since you want to go from an engineering to a what is considered a general major. Call the head of ROTC at the college you will be attending in the fall.
 
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