By The Huffington Post News Editors
Even after the college applications are completed, the acceptance letters have rolled in and you’ve decided upon your school of choice, there’s still one important decision to be made: choosing a college major.
HuffPost Live tackled the topic earlier this week, featuring Taylor Trudon (Associate Editor of HuffPost Teen), Will McGuinness (HuffPost College Senior Editor), Anne Mongillo (Dean of Academic Advisement at Hofstra University), Spencer Brown (freshman at Rutgers University) and Dale Stephens (founder of uncollege.org).
“A lot of the time I find a student thinks they’re supposed to be in a certain major, like engineering or business or something with an obvious end point with a position. Maybe they’ll be excited about it but a lot of times they’re not,” Mongillo said. “I’ll ask them, ‘What do you like? What have you always like to do?’ I can start to talk to them about the transferrable skills that go into that major.”
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