I'm currently an undergraduate sophomore, and have just declared as a Philosophy major. Ideally, I would probably be an English major, but I attend a small school that has a pretty weak English department. The Philosophy department, on the other hand, is one of the school's strengths (they run the only PhD program at my university).
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Also, as far as English goes, you might consider a semester/year abroad, especially if you might be doing work in a different language. In some study abroad programs you end up taking easy classes only with Americans but in others you have to take some or all of your classes in local universities. This is what I had to do when I studied in Argentina. I was fluent in Spanish but the readings, the theory, the length of the papers I wrote-- everything was harder than what I did in the US. But I worked hard, did pretty well, and was very proud of some of my work. Had I decided to pursue Spanish lit I probably would have spruced up one of those essays for my applications because they were much more like graduate work than what I did back home.
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