<p>Where can I find the most and least popular majors or fields of interest for various colleges?</p>
<p>ummmm… the respective college admissions webpages?</p>
<p>Sarcasm aside, I suspect you wanna apply to some obscure major to increase your chances of admission, right? For 99.9% of the time, it won’t work. There.</p>
<p>And since you shouldn’t just believe me, on online stranger, use the “search” features on this site for the words “intended major” and you’ll see dozens of threads addressing this oft-asked question.</p>
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<p>Well, thank you for your honesty. And yes, you guessed my intentions. I thought it would increase my chances. It makes sense that it would.</p>
<p>It doesn’t change your chances at all because your intended major means squat. You don’t officially declare a major (at most schools) until the end of sophomore year. My intended major could be African Cultures but then I could declare English.</p>
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<p>Is it better to choose “undecided” then? I truly am undecided, though I am leaning toward Biology.</p>
<p>If you are truly undecided then put undecided</p>
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<p>If you have extracurriculars that relate to Biology, then put biology. If not, it doesn’t really matter.</p>
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<p>But don’t you think that colleges want diverse students interested in various subjects? I’m not saying that I’m going to lie or even exaggerate my interests to fit the college’s needs, but doesn’t that support the fact that maybe AOs do put a considerable amount of weight on which major you choose, even if it’s just by looking at your extracurriculars?</p>
<p>They do. But they are 100% congnizant that whatever a 17 year old states (and isn’t backed by other substantiating evidence) is practically worthless, at best or just a banal gaming strategy, at worst.</p>
<p>The vast majority of top college entrants switch majors – so “intended major” is nothing but a point of curiosity.</p>
<p>If you really DO intend to study African Languages – fine. Put that. But if you think you’ve discovered the secret edge, you’re in a fantasy world. Sorry.</p>
<p>Yes, put “undecided”. Believe it or not, I recall that English, Biology and Undecided were the three most listed things for incoming Yale freshmen. That’s good company, no?</p>
<p>I was thinking like what T26E4 said in comment #2.
I don’t know what college you will be applying to, but as long as it’s the major within L&S, the major doesn’t matter at all. You can go for undeclared and still change your major later. However, if you go for something engineering, it’s a different story. Here in CA, engineering is more difficult and competitive to get in.</p>
<p>You make a crafty point about choosing an unpopular major to get into the college you want; however, most college admission people already have seen it. They know that most students will change their major more than 2-3 times in their colleges. That’s why your majors don’t matter a lot or at all at most colleges. Students will get to choose the majors again in their soph year.</p>
<p>I don’t know. You can even think from another aspect. If that major is popular, then the college will have more space available for that specific major. In turn, if the major sounds weird and not so popular, they might offer small room for the applicants…</p>