<p>This might sound really stupid, but does one's interested/intended major affect one's admissions???</p>
<p>I put pre-medicine on some of the applications I've sent in (to places like havard, and princeton if that matters), and I don't want that to affect my admissions....
I'm an international student also....so if that matters with the intended major also....</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>PS: if it does matter, what should I do?? write them a letter saying that I don't intend to be a pre-med major??</p>
<p>I would also like to know this. I put Undecided on virtually all of my applications. It gets me worried that they might think that I don't have any academic interests, but I'm also slightly neurotic about this whole thing.</p>
<p>Err, intended major shouldn't affect admissions as long as its within the same school. now if you applied to a school with say, a separate business school, then yes, putting business down as your major will affect your chances of getting in. And undecided is perfectly ok. That is the most common choice in the application process. We're still teenagers, and they know that.</p>
<p>well, the average college student changes his/her major at least once. i'm sure colleges are aware of that. </p>
<p>in GENERAL, your major is not a factor in admissions if you are applying to the College of Letters and Sciences (names for this may vary; it could be School of Letters and Sciences or College of Arts and Sciences, etc.). for most colleges, the most popular "major" among entering freshmen is undeclared (i know it is around 40% at UCLA). if you are applying to a specialty program (i.e. Brown's PLME for pre-med) or a major outside of the college letters and sciences (examples would be engineering, business, architecture, agriculture, music, theatre, etc.), then yes, your major will play a factor in admissions because you are competing against others who applied for the same major. </p>
<p>whosang,
it sounds like in your case, it won't affect admissions. pre-med can mean many different majors anyway - bio, chem, biochem, physiological sci, psych, neurosci, and even something like english (supposedly the second most popular "pre-med" major). all of these majors fall under the college of letters and sciences (or whatever it's called at harvard and princeton).</p>
<p>Intended major only matters if you are applying to a specific school within the college that requires you declare it on the application. Otherwise not really. College students change majors too many times to have an effect. Then wouldn't everyone start writing really obscure majors just to affect their admission and then change when they got there?</p>