However, it is also true that the longer students wait to decide, the longer it is likely to take them to finish their college education. The map below provides a graphic illustration of this point. If you begin driving from Redding to the East Coast and decide after 4 hours that you are going to go to New York, you will arrive sooner than someone who decides to go to New York after driving for 4 days. You have time to plan a direct route from Reno, but it's too late to plan a direct route if you are already in Memphis, Tennessee. Of course if you are in Memphis you are still closer to New York than you were in Redding, but you can see that deciding early allows you to take advantage of the fastest and shortest path possible and prevents you from heading in the wrong direction.
College is no different.
The longer you delay making a decision about your program of study, the more probable it is that you will end up taking a longer road to the end.