<p>Are there any particular majors at Columbia that have a higher acceptance rate over others?</p>
<p>My main focus is in mathematics and I am up for anything math-related; my first choice would be to go for Applied Mathematics, but I could also do something like Statistics.</p>
<p>There are schools that do go by this because they would like to popularize a specific area of study at their institution. Where I currently attend is primarily focused on arts and music rather than sciences - I am one in a handful that chose the math major, which is partly why I believe they accepted me in the first place. I am wondering if Columbia possibly does the same.</p>
<p>If anyone has suggestions or a related story, I'd like to hear it.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, no. Columbia is a liberal arts school, so they’re looking for Math majors, English majors, Sociology majors, Science majors, etc. Granted, if a ton of prospective English majors and very few prospective Math majors apply one year, then Math majors may have a slight advantage for that year. But generally speaking, this isn’t something you can game.</p>
<p>There really isn’t much significant difference between saying you wanna be a math major vs a stats major. Unless you got a 5 on the calc BC AP and a 0 on the stats AP or something like that.</p>
<p>It really is best to list your intended major as what you want it to be (unless you have horrible test scores/grades in that area, but if that’s the case why would you wanna major in it anyway?)</p>
<p>The reason they have you choose 3 areas of interest is because no one expects you to follow up on your #1 intended major- people switch after a year or so all the time. They just genuinely want to know what you’re interested in and if you have a good idea of your own strengths. So when they build a balanced community- they aren’t choosing based on what you say you want to study. They KNOW what you’re good at based on the rest of your application and they can tell if you truly are passionate about what you want to do.</p>