<p>I am a female high school senior applying as a freshman.
I have heard some schools have higher acceptance rates for students with certain intended majors.
Could selecting a particular intended major on the application have any influence on my acceptance/ rejection at Tulane?
I will probably go for Math or Biology
but then again maybe just undecided.</p>
<p>It so happens I just responded to this on another thread on this forum.</p>
<p>I really don’t think intended major makes much difference at Tulane, since all students are admitted into the overarching Newcomb-Tulane College, not individual schools such as business or engineering. In theory I suppose if the school was seeing a disproportionate number of applicants and early acceptances going to intended science majors or business majors, it could influence later acceptances to keep a balance. In practice, I think that balance generally happens fairly naturally, especially at a school like Tulane that is well known for its liberal arts majors.</p>
<p>Besides, I emphasized intended because Tulane also knows students change their minds all the time, so there is little use in playing that game too much. Well over half of students change from their initially intended major, or so I have read.</p>
<p>Some majors have a cap on the # of students admitted to the program. At least where I work we do- Our Pharmacy and Nursing programs only accept a limited number of students for each incoming class. But I don’t know how Tulane operates for any of it’s majors.</p>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, Tulane has no such caps on any program or major. Again, I can certainly imagine that if the incoming class looks like it is skewing too heavily towards business, for example, the later admits will take that into account. But from everything I hear, those “triggers” don’t seem to need to be pulled.</p>
<p>I can definitely see where having a self-contained, somewhat separate program like you mention would have to be capped, similar to a med school.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your help.</p>
<p>Tulane makes it easy to change one’s major.</p>
<p>I know some schools where one would need to pick a major carefully in order to get in, but that is usually more the case with CSUs (in the US) or in Canadian/European schools.</p>