I am very interested in Business, and plan to apply to colleges as a female in comp/mech engineering and switching to business if I am accepted. Is this a good idea for the following schools? or should I directly apply as a B major?
upenn
columbia
chicago
cornell
vandy
berkeley
BC
USCali
NYU
UMich
Engineering is one of the most difficult majors to get into. Slight advantage you will have as girl in engineering will cancel out by applying to impacted major.
It also may not be that easy to switch majors. Apply as either Business or Undecided.
Wait, why are you applying to engineering with the explicit purpose of switching into business?
Probably because OP thinks it is easy for girl to get in as an engineering major.
Your plan would not work at U Chicago. They have no engineering program. However, I agree with the others, if you want business, just apply to that from the beginning.
Just apply to business, why engineering? You should look at the admit rate of the engineering school of those colleges. They are pretty low.
I am female and being female does not give you a cut in line pass into engineering. Why waste the time and money on classes that you never needed in the end?
Don’t apply as engineering major. The risk is low GPA (common in engineering, especially first semester … even more so if you don’t have any passion for engineering). Low GPA might disqualify you from transferring into the business school.
For UMich, girl with decent stat would get into engineering easier. If you are from OOS, you would need near 4.0 GPA and 34+ ACT for a fair chance. The admission rate is slightly better than their business school (Ross) but not much. However, applying to Ross from CoE is not straight forward and the successful rate is 40% (or less from CoE). Anyway, you should apply to Ross pre-admit with CoE. Business program officially starts in sophomore year.
@billcsho what about applying to LSA, and trying to transfer during sophomore year?
That had a 40% chance. But to be accepted at LSA had a 20-25% admission rate from OOS.
@billcsho thanks. and is econ also a part of ross?
No. Econ is in LSA.
@billcsho ok. i will probably do econ first and then try to transfer to ross sophomore year. Which do u think will look better on my app and which is generally easier: ap econ or stat?
Major does not matter. You don’t declare major until second semester or later while you apply to Ross at the end of freshmen too. You should still apply to Ross pre admit. They will first consider your LSA admission anyway.
@billcsho so you are trying to say-correct me if i am wrong- that if I apply to ross and they think I do not have good enough stats for that school, but I have good stats for LSA, then they will admit me only in LSA? also, would u reccomend me applying EA?
Cheating the system to land a big “name.” 
You will cost some aspiring engineer who actually wants to BE AN ENGINEER that slot.
This is a horrible plan. If you want to do business, apply as a business major. Not only is it harder to get into engineering schools (especially at Cornell), but if you get in and can’t transfer, you’re going to be stuck learning information tht is useless to you.
For Ross pre-admit, you do apply on the CommonApp but also with LSA (or CoE). You would be likely first admitted into LSA before you hear anything from Ross. As I said, CoE admission is not much easier than Ross pre-admission even for a girl.