Let’s say you’re major in college is pre-med but decide it’s not for you after the first semester and change it to business. Why can’t a student simply start over? Why do their transcripts matter when they clearly failed their required science courses?
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How well you do in any college-level course is going to be a strong predictor of how well you’ll do in other college-level courses, at least with respect to intro level courses. Not being able to handle an intro science courseis it pretty good sign you’ll struggle at most intro level courses. At the very least, it’s an indicator that you can’t or won’t apply yourself in subjects you find difficult or uninteresting. And no matter your major, you will encounter courses and topics that are less interesting and more difficult.
Pre med also isnt a major, it’s not even a course path. There are prerequisites for medical school, but other than that, it’s like law school in that your major doesnt really matter, your performance does. On the other hand, many colleges (within a university) don’t require you to actually be accepted into that to take low level courses in that field, and you’ll likely get accepted if you perform well in those classes.
Because if you fail bio 101 it probably means you’re not a hard worker rather than bio is too difficult for your brain.
The true, actual answer is that, in the US at least, your transcript isn’t made up of only your major specific classes.
GenEds can pad or hurt your GPA, and while my uni did both (in my major, which I had chosen before I enrolled v all of my courses), most places don’t separate them. Part of that is the expectation that you can and probably will change your mind at some point, which, theoretically, is the point of GenEds. And part of it is record keeping. If all English majors had difficulty in Poly Sci, maybe there’s something different they could be doing. If all physics students had difficulty in one specific class, perhaps that one class is stupid.
It’s a lot more work to separate them to include or disclude them, so you get it all.
In the US you are fully allowed to change your major, at any point in your college duration. But not all your classes can always apply to the new degree you choose and the failed courses still matter.
In Texas you can, you get one free “do-over” that completely erases your college record. But you have to start completely at the beginning.
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