<p>I was wondering if you are automatically considered for your second and third choice major if you can't get acceptance from your first choice</p>
<p>Your major doesn’t figure into your acceptance at all. You are not accepted for any particular major, and are free to choose whatever major you want. Your major won’t even be recorded until after your first year ends, you don’t have to declare a major until spring of your second year, and you are free to change majors even after that.</p>
<p>On the common app, it has you select three majors and colleges in order! Haha</p>
<p>majors don’t play a role into your acceptance usually, but if they do have too many kids applying for econ (for example) and too few kids applying for comp sci, they may look into the comp sci kids a little bit more in order to keep a diverse class</p>
<p>crap. I put econ down as my first choice. I know it won’t effect it much, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t worry all the same</p>
<p>The question is on the Common Application because it does matter at a lot of colleges. But it doesn’t matter at all at the University of Chicago. I don’t know for sure, but I doubt it even makes it on to the summary sheets the admissions staff use. </p>
<p>Your interests matter, sure, because they want a class with diverse interests, and there are probably a few areas where having a strong interest may be a small boost. (Those would tend to be areas where Chicago traditionally has trouble attracting top students, like Computer Science, and areas where Chicago has great faculty but there is a general shortage of students interested in it, like Ancient Egyptian.) Economics is by far the largest major at Chicago – about 20% of the students wind up with that major, almost twice the next most popular major – and closely related majors like math, statistics, and public policy are also very strong. So it’s not like there’s obvious discrimination against people with that kind of interest.</p>
<p>We use the major indications as a knowledge of what you may plan to study should you enroll at UChicago. However, there is no separate application process or need to be accepted in to any major particularly. Should you be admitted to UChicago, you are welcome to major in any major we offer. </p>