<p>I want to be a doc so bio is an obvious choice but I'm also very interested in Asian studies. Would my major choice affect my admissions chances?</p>
<p>Not significantly. If you got 600 on the math section of the SAT’s you might not want to say that you want to be a math major.</p>
<p>Probably not. They don’t particularly expect anyone to know exactly what they want to do. Just be honest. (Anecdotal: I selected some of the more popular majors and put them down, and I was admitted.) However, if you are admitted, there are a few things that those go into: a) if you are RD, you may be admitted to a particular scholars program; b) you may start getting emails based on your particular interest (some of my friends for example got invitations to a meeting about accelerated physics). I think those highlight why it’s important to be honest, haha.</p>
<p>I guess the only thing that would look really suspicious is if all your essays and grades seemed to completely invalidate your major choices, for example if you wrote about not liking math and put down a math major.</p>
<p>One of the essays asks you to discuss why you want to study what you list as wanting to study, so just be as honest as possible and try to write a good/engaging essay about yr academic interests. About the physics email neiro6 mentioned above, I think it was completely random - I was admitted and put English, History, and Political Science as my possible majors and still got an invitation to join the accelerated physics program (I did go to a math/science magnet school, but that’s an aside). The biggest advantage to letting Columbia know what you want to study is if you’d like to do Visual Arts/Art History and need to be in Art Humanities during your first year. There are several students who indicated interest in those fields and were pre-registered for Art Humanities (which, apparently, is kind of a pain in the ass to get in to).</p>
<p>Kay well bio and asian studies are both in CC so yay! I’m genuinely interested in both so the essays won’t be too bad (hopefully). Are there some humanities majors at Columbia on premed track (or double major with bio)?</p>
<p>^Pre-med concentration (like a minor) is available for every major. Many students choose to pair it with something like political science or economics instead of the average chem, bio, neuroscience, or psych. You do NOT need to be a bio or chem major to go to medical school.</p>