<p>I know some universities base their admissions on the specific school, like school of engineering or school of business. Since Notre Dame has an excellent and well known business program, I would imagine a major like that is much more popular than computer science. So my question is, would one's chances of being accepted increase if majoring in computer science? Thanks</p>
<p>Probably not. At ND, unlike some other schools, you don’t apply to a specific school. All freshmen are enrolled in the First Year of Studies, then are sorted into specific colleges within the University at the end of freshman year. You don’t declare a major until sophomore year.</p>
<p>Ah ok. Thanks for the help</p>
<p>Playing the “underrepresented major” card is an old trope on CC. There are many posters who come up with various twists on the same idea.</p>
<p>This is a bad idea for many reasons:</p>
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<li><p>Few schools can predict from year to year which will be the underrepresented major for the next freshman class. While every college will have smaller departments, this means that generally a correspondingly smaller number of spots will be available for that department, keeping selectivity roughly constant.</p></li>
<li><p>If your academic and extracurricular pursuits do not align with your stated major, your overall application will suffer. This negative will far outweight any positive impact.</p></li>
<li><p>If a university does have lower admissions standards for a department or college (think Cornell’s Hotel Management school), they will make it much more difficult to transfer out of that major into a more selective one.</p></li>
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<p>Right, that makes sense. I wasnt trying to “cheat” the system or anything, I’m majoring in computer science no matter what; if I dont get accepted to Notre Dame with computer science then I will attend somewhere else for computer science. I was just curious if the selectivity changed based on college, but it obviously does not. Thanks for the response.</p>