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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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.
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