The Sophomore Pivot: What to Do When Your College Student Realizes They Hate Their Major

College student sitting at a desk in a dorm room, looking uncertain while reviewing coursework on a laptop and in open textbooks.

Every guidance counselor gives the same advice when a sophomore hates their major: help them pick something else, fast, before they lose more time. But that advice is exactly how students end up switching majors twice instead of once. The acceptance letter arrives, and most parents exhale. Then, sometime around sophomore year, the phone rings. […]