<p>^ I agree that both will be rejected. IMHO, sakky was so eager to highlight his point that he overdid it. I think most of us agree that the major needs to be a reasonably respectable one in term of its academic strength, and the student needs to do reasonably well on that kind of major. </p>
<p>An applicant does not need a 4.0 in order to be a successful premed. An analogy is that a competitive applicant to college does not need to have 2400 SAT. Some even said that as long as your GPA (or SAT) exceeds some threshold, you really do not get many brownie points by getting a perfect score.</p>
<p>Also, not all humanity majors are cakewalk. Actually, I think that very often the students who are naturally good at sciences are not good at humanities. Many science majors do not enjoy writing one paper after another in a non-stop way like those humanity majors have to do/endure. Also, the test scores in a humanity class are often a very insignificant part of your final grade (if there is any test at all; most do not have one); this often does not appeal to many premeds as they may feel insecure about what the professor’s (arguably somewhat subjective) evaluation of his/her paper is.</p>
<p>However, it is often mentioned that some (but not all) “XYZ study” major tends to be an easier major and I do not know whether there is some truth in this.</p>