<p>I'm in a bit of a dilemma here, I'm a bit torn on whether to go for a biology or political science major. That being said, I was wondering if top schools which get those 10000 amazing stats from a rather homogenous pool of Asians would be more inclined to accept someone (an Asian like me) who would be going to the humanities and the like than the sciences. </p>
<p>I equally like both of them so in other words, would I get an advantage if I marked political science down as the major?</p>
<p>i'm interested in political science but i worry that theres enough interesting careers out there for me. it would be fun to work for like Red Cross or something... i don't want to be a teacher though...</p>
<p>anyone else know?</p>
<p>Related careers: </p>
<p>Government Executives and Legislators
Government Lawyers
Judges
News Analysts, Reporters, and Correspondents
Public Interest Advocates
Public Interest Lawyers</p>
<p>Your not accepted based on your major, your accepted based on your stats. I changed my major a kazillion times from chemistry, history of art, to chemistry, to biophysics, to molecular cell biology, to public health, and finally now back to biology double majoring in economics.</p>
<p>Ppl learn new things and chnage their majors often as they grow and mature in college. You don't even choose your major like (for you atleast) like three years from now. Don't worry unless you are an engineer. lol You apply to a separate school altogether.</p>
<p>EDIT: I applied as a Art history/Computer science major. I don't know how much it helped but it did show that I could two subjects that were like....polar opposites.</p>
<p>all other things equal, why not go with the less asian-esk major?</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses so far.</p>
<p>I had another two questions,
1) How hard would it be to double major in like biology/political science
2) Do the colleges actually care about the "career" your mark down in the commonapp?</p>
<p>Marking a major can focus an application but won't really give you an advantage.</p>
<p>Ah, the young innocent incoming seniors. </p>
<p>I seriously hope you were not attempting to actually change your desired field just to get into a "top school". But even if you were attempting to "game the system," well -- changing your major to underwater basket-weaving is not going to make you more distinctive. It has nothing to do with racial stereotypes and everything to do with general student stereotypes in general.</p>