Thoughts, anecdotal evidence, anything works?
No
I don’t think significant but if you have a clear and strong stats for non-STEM, it could help a little maybe. Not sure. Only anecdotal case I have is my kid (no hooks) got in with 33 ACT and 3.9 gpa, and he wrote down a non-STEM as an interest area, although now he got in, I guess he can study AI. Lol
I don’t know about a significant factor, but all else equal, Stanford is definitely conscious that student major choices have shifted in a pretty dramatic way in recent years towards CS in particular and STEM in general. So on the margin I would suspect that a strong applicant with a humanities or arts focus may be more appealing than yet another prospective CS major. Dean Shaw and others have talked publicly in recent years about trying to increase the numbers of humanities focused students.
I agree with bluewater. However, I don’t see how a student can claim interest in humanities unless there is clear evidence of it that will be included on the application.
No, i’m talking about a clear demonstrated interest in humanities (debate team captain, debate awards, creative writing camps for 3 years, community service program centered around writing, couple of writing awards, editor of an online lit mag, staff writer for an online journalism mag, and such, and such). @bicoastalusa
Would that apply to female students as well?