<p>For undergraduates/first time freshman. For example is it harder to get into a school if you applied for business (because that is a more popular major) than if you applied for something less popular like history? And why? </p>
<p>*sorry if I put this under the wrong forum I am new to this site</p>
<p>Some universities have various colleges within them (engineering, art, etc) and oftentimes you apply directly to the school and so admissions rates will vary.</p>
<p>I still don’t understand.</p>
<p>The short answer is yes. For example, UPenn’s Wharton has an acceptance rate of 9%, while the school has an overall acceptance of 12.3%. A higher percentage of people get accepted at CAS while a lower percentage get accepted at Wharton.</p>
<p>Some schools do not care about your intended major (this is often the case with LACs), so no for those schools. But for other school you apply for a program and each program has its own acceptance rate (see the example by benaiir).</p>
<p>Same with Carnegie Mellon - Computer science might be in single digits while there are programs with 15% or more admit rates and lower thresholds for GPA/SAT.</p>
<p>Most state schools have some programs that are really tough to get into while others are have high admit rates.</p>
<p>But nowhere is it as extreme as in a Quebec university with a med school and/or a law school. In those Quebec Us, there are “open-admissions” majors alongside “reach-for-anyone” majors (direct-entry JD or 0-5 MD) within the same university.</p>