<p>It seems to me that Yale is a bit stronger in humanities than the sciences. Would you have an easier time getting in if you were more of the latter type?</p>
<p>that's a good question. I dont know... although I imagine that it is hard enough to get into Yale that it doesnt really matter one way or the other</p>
<p>not necessarily... yale looks at the whole package, not just what area of interest you have...</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing myself when I applied. Personally, I think you should be honest about what you want to major in, and not cater to what's more likely to get you in... but then again, I applied as an EPE candidate and got deferred, so that didn't work too well for me.</p>
<p>And, though I don't know if math/science does necessarily help, I can say this--no one has gotten into Yale from my school in six years (which is extremely odd for an elite public school where two or more people get into Harvard each year and loads more end up at other Ivies).. and the last person to get in was a female who majored in Physics.</p>
<p>I'm wondering the same thing!</p>
<p>I meant beyond what you put for intended major, but, like, someone with perfect math/science sats and average reading/writing scores.</p>
<p>Oh, well, in that case, I don't think there's any advantage what-so-ever. How good a math/science student you are means absolutely nothing if you don't plan on majoring in something math/science related, after all.</p>
<p>Well what if you were good at it and you put it down as your major at the same time???</p>
<p>I think then that it might help a bit.
I think if you can show some focus in an area (for me, I had a lot of stuff going on involving German) and I put down German as my intended major, because I showed a lot of interested/focus in it, and I am thinking about it, so it's not like a lie really, and I think it was one of the things that helped me to get in, personally.</p>
<p>Harvard this year saw a big bump up in EA applicants for engineering and math. I would be interested in seeing if the same is true at Yale this year. If there was a bump, any kind of advantage would probably get wiped out.</p>
<p>Hey all (sorry if this is the first time you're seeing me, but every time I try to post the server seems to be down). I was thinking the exact same thing after getting that science-at-yale email, and the 2 kids who got in from my school (i was deferred) were extremely science-oriented. I think they might be trying to beef up sciences at Yale, which you see especially if you read the Cornell v. Yale sorts of posts.</p>