Unless college has changed since I went (to a pretty average state school), you can do all that, but the default seemed to be to start off in a program that sou

Unless college has changed since I went (to a pretty average state school), you can do all that, but the default seemed to be to start off in a program that sounds cool, realize the science classes are too hard, change to an easier major a couple times, finish off your gen-eds with some random survey classes where you just have to write a couple short papers compatible with the professor's world-view, and stumble your way into a bachelor's degree. The most interesting college classes I took tolerated non-majors reluctantly, if at all. The expectation was that people who were there to be "well-rounded humans" weren't going to take the course seriously.