{"id":6164,"date":"2020-08-11T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/?page_id=6164"},"modified":"2021-09-16T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T16:23:25","slug":"declaring-your-biology-major","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/academics\/for-prospective-majors\/declaring-your-biology-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaring your biology major"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5048\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2017\/01\/Don-and-students-Bio-270-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5048\" class=\"wp-image-5048 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2017\/01\/Don-and-students-Bio-270-2017-367x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2017\/01\/Don-and-students-Bio-270-2017-367x300.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2017\/01\/Don-and-students-Bio-270-2017-200x163.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/files\/2017\/01\/Don-and-students-Bio-270-2017.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don Dearborn and two biology majors (wearing their very snappy biology hats) working in lab.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations! We are very excited that you have decided to declare your major in biology!<\/p>\n<p>Bates has a general procedure for declaring majors and you can find out that information here (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/registrar\/academic-record\/online-declaration-student-faq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAQS<\/a>) and in the catalog under which you matriculated.<\/p>\n<p>Bio majors should make an appointment to see the biology department chair, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty-expertise\/profile\/larissa-m-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larissa Williams<\/a> (x8202 or email to lwillia2) at which time any remaining administrative tasks will be completed and you will be assigned an academic advisor from the biology department faculty. As a welcome into the Bates biology community, you will be given a biology hat courtesy of the department. We hope you&#8217;ll wear it proudly and often!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to biology!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations! We are very excited that you have decided to declare your&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":1066,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6164\/revisions\/7175"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}