<p>Say that I wanted to major in chemistry at MIT. It would be much easier to get into than engineering, right?</p>
<p>No. You apply to MIT as a whole, not to a school or department, and MIT does not factor prospective major into admissions. It's too unreliable - people change their minds constantly after they get there.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. Each has it's own criteria; some have acceptances decided by the individual colleges within the university, and others, such as MIT, don't differentiate by major. There are places (Duke, Cornell) where the engineering schools have some of the highest acceptance rates of all the divisions, and Arts and Sciences the lowest.</p>
<p>Thanks... is there anywhere where I can find out the acceptance rate of the different schools within a college?</p>
<p>If you apply to Cal Poly, use the undecided major. I have two friends who applied for engineering and got denied while being accepted at UCB.</p>