@app4college It is better to make your own thread instead of adding your question to someone else’s thread.
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I think she just shared her story in solidarity, I did not see her with a question.
It’s helpful to know how many fantastic kids do not get in to their first choice, it is not personal - both will end up somewhere great.
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doesn’t unc have a very very low out of state acceptance rate? that’s what I was told at least, so I figured it’s not worth… jhu just doesn’t really vibe with me
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thank you for this <333 good luck to you too I hope we both end up at the perfect schools for us!!!
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How many years?
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Perhaps consider Vassar, which, I believe, established the first undergraduate cognitive science major in the world.
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i will look into it thank you!
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You have a strong application and I’d be surprised if you didn’t have at least a couple acceptances from your lists. That said, however, as you just experienced at Yale, there are far more highly-qualified students than there are slots at these schools.
Since you don’t seem entirely opposed to looking at additional schools, you may want to consider U. of Rochester (NY) which Dataverse has listed as among the top colleges for public health, cognitive science, and data science.
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These ECs are insane 
awesome thank you so much for the suggestion!!!
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I think you will be competitive. I would def apply to UNC. Great school BTW. Lovely town and supprtive environment. Not a grind culture like some of the schools out there, JHU for sure.
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Sorry to hear about Yale 
But, I think there may have been an issue with the major you indicated. I’m all for passion and interest, but I feel like Ivy/T10 would like to see more of a commitment to your desired major. You applied cognitive science, but from your activities I couldn’t decipher that at all—neither could I connect you to data science or applied math (majors you applied to the UCs with). To me, you’re the ideal social sciences major. Perhaps look into that so AO’s can better identify your selling point. Good luck!
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For Yale & similar places I think you will find that intended majors are taken very lightly as they are well aware that ~30% of students change their intended major once they get to college. Students are not admitted by major, and typically don’t declare until second year. Yale in particular emphasizes the ‘liberal arts’ ethos of education as a broader preparation for life, not college as vocational training.
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Perhaps, but at least from my small pool of classmates and former classmates, people tend to have at least a little bit of alignment. After all, Yale asks you for a “why major.” Things might change, sure, but you need to have experiences to talk about in that essay.
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However, an admission reader probably gets bored of the 10,000th econ->finance/consulting major or CS major or pre-med, or someone who looks like such but pretends to be something else, but may find an applicant with a more genuine interest to a less common major to be more interesting.
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I thought about this after yale 
I changed my major for the T20 schools to social sciences actually haha and in regards to UCs I applied data science to schools that DON’T consider your major. Like UCB I did a social sciences major. I was kind of unclear with my majors / changed my mind after making this post my bad!
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just an update-- accepted to ucsd and ucla yesterday! rejected from uci but that’s ok, it was at the bottom of my * want to go list * anyways 
and then waitlisted from Wellesley
glad to already have some good options
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