<p>Ok, I know Cornell splits up the applications by college, but what effect does your choice of major have on acceptance? Do people with different prospective majors get compared with each other or are applications further split by major?</p>
<p>Also, is anyone else on here applying to the ISST major?</p>
<p>split by majors: if you apply to a smaller major, you technically have a higher acceptance rate. but don't let this mislead you because that major could have applicants that are overall more qualified than another major.</p>
<p>oh wow cool, but are you very sure? Cause I think some people are just gonna switch majors when they get in.</p>
<p>Mak5im, you don't even declare your major until Soph year (or somewhere around that.. that's what one of my Cornell friends told me). The major you write down on your application is in no way binding at all.</p>
<p>I doubt it would have much of an effect...the smaller majors have less staff than the larger majors so it all evens out. AEP, for instance, only has like 15 faculty members for classes that are now around 40-50 kids (maybe 180 total). ECE, which has ~500 total undergrads, has a much larger staff so its built to handle more people.</p>
<p>But I guess there is a place on the application for your intended major for a reason...you don't normally affiliate until the middle of your sophomore year but in some cases you can affiliate early. The intended major on your application isn't even kept on record anywhere I don't think. When you get some **** later in the summer (registration and all that), you mark which majors you are interested in and they try to assign you an advisor in that major but that doesn't always happen...when you officially affiliate your advisor will change to whatever major you affiliate with if your current advisor is not in that major. For example - I said ECE was my intended major on my app, marked on one of the registration sheets that I was interested in AEP and ECE, got an AEP advisor, but will have to change advisors next year because I'm going for ECE afterall.</p>
<p>Anyway, I don't think your choice of major will have much of a tangible effect...I felt like I was borderline for ED last year and had ECE down, still got in.</p>
<p>yea of course you can switch majors and the major that your write down on your application is in no way binding at all...you're right that you don't even have to declare for almost 2 years. BUT trust me...the major that you put down on your application matters a lot. a candidate looks much more desirable if he is highly qualified and is applying to a small, usually overlooked major. of course his activities and essays have to be geared toward this major, obviously.</p>
<p>would u then say operations research and engineering (ORE) would be the easier major to get into the engineering school? base on sametwochords assumption
since ORE is always regarded as softcore engineering</p>
<p>I applied to College of Engineering. I received a 580 on my bio SAT Subject test. If I were applying to bio engineering, that would probably be very bad... However, I scored an 800 on math 2 and physics, so that makes me slightly more favorable towards the AEP.</p>
<p>The stuff about small majors and whatnot... Im not sure if that's true or not, whatever</p>
<p>ORE is awesome, stop calling it softcore. I'm applying there cause I'm interested in business and maybe financial engineering
and yes, 580 on bio is very bad, sorry, my physics is too</p>
<p>i have no idea about ORE...it would depend on if it's a small program and many other things. i really have no idea about the program specifically.</p>
<p>and in response to another; i can assure you that what you put down as your major is important</p>
<p>I know for CALS you apply to one major in particular. If you want to apply to a second major (in case you aren't admittedal into your first choice major), you must write an addition short essay.</p>
<p>I know for CAS your major doesn't really matter, but I don't know about the others.</p>
<p>Apply to the major that you are best suited for. If everything about you is sciece oriented, but you apply to a language major that Cornell has few students it, it probably hurts your chances, especially if you have never taken that language. If you are a stud in the langauge, it may increase your chances some because it is likely you will contribute to a small department. The thing is so many people apply as one major and change a few times while in college, that Cornell, and most other colleges, do not take your intended major very seriously unless you are applying to a special program, like Hotel school. It is more of a way to guage your intersts and for Cornell to try to have a student body with diverse intersts.</p>