<p>someone mentioned that if you apply to engineering at harvard instead of say chemistry, then you have an easier chances of getting in.</p>
<p>even if the chances are small either way, is this true?</p>
<p>Harvard’s chemistry program is ranked 4th in the nation, so they get a lot of chemistry majors. Their engineering isn’t the best, though, so they probably get very few engineering applicants. However, any edge will be very minimal/insignificant.</p>
<p>Since you do not declare a major until your second year at Harvard, there is no advantage (or negligible amounts) to listing one major as your intended over another.</p>
<p>thanks for the info! does the same go for yale?</p>
<p>For any given college, you can usually tell by whether there is another admission process to declare or change to a specific major after one has enrolled there.</p>