<p>I applied to Brown, Harvard, and Tufts for their most obvious pre-med majors and to JHU for BME.</p>
<p>I am especially worried about JHU's BME because my stats are not competitive enough (I am international and have only heard of the SATs two months before I had to take it). Would they reject me for applying to BME or do they look at it as an application to their whole school/department of engineering?</p>
<p>The same goes for the other three universities. Would I have been better off applying to a random Eastern European studies class and then transfer when I get my acceptance, or does it not matter?</p>
<p>At those four schools, major is such a minor component of getting in, it shouldn’t be a concern, if it’s even a factor at all. You are much more likely to be rejected, like everyone else, over factors much more important than major.</p>
<p>Colleges ask about your intended major to gauge your interests, but as the vast majority of student’s end up changing their major at least once during their four years of college, Admissions doesn’t use that information when considering whether to accept, waitlist, or reject a student, as the data has been shown to be an unreliable predictor of a student’s actual major. </p>