<p>What are some non-impacted majors at Stanford? Is fine arts perhaps one of them?</p>
<p>Majors Granting Highest Number of Undergraduate Degrees in 2002-2003:</p>
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<li>Biology or Human Biology</li>
<li>Economics</li>
<li>Computer Science</li>
<li>International Relations</li>
<li>Political Science</li>
</ol>
<p>So, the non-impacted majors would be everything else.</p>
<p>Something exotic would be non-impacted like:</p>
<p>Slavic Languages and Literatures
German
Asian Languages (Chinese and Japanese)
Classical Languages (Greek and Latin)
Symbolic Systems (what is that? anyone?)</p>
<p>Oh wow! Isn't it easier to apply as one of the non-impacted majors and switch majors once you get in?</p>
<p>Does your essay, academic record, ecs reflect a passion in symbolic systems? Switching majors is harder than you think. You might have to petition switch into the major.</p>
<p>Symbolic systems? Honestly, I've never heard of it...lol. I'm hoping that my art portfolio and ec's in that area might give me a boost, since I heard that Stanford is not the strongest in fine arts.</p>
<p>I know this sounds incredibly stupid and you're all gonna laugh, but...what's an impacted major?</p>
<p>I think it's a major with a very high number of students, so you become more expendable in the school's eyes and the major is harder to get into than an unimpacted one.</p>
<p>=i <--- me not laughing</p>
<p>You are not accepted into any particular major at Stanford. You are accepted to the university, and have till the end of your sophomore year to declare a major, and you can change it as many times as you want (as long as you meet the requirements).
Symbolic systems is a unique multi-disciplinary major at Stanford that includes courses in philosophy, psychology, linguistics and computer science, and it is quite popular.</p>
<p>Stanford, like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT, do not care what major you declare when you apply. You can change your majors as many times as you want, and it's not "easier" to get in if you declare yourself as a fine arts major as opposed to an engineering major. </p>
<p>Public schools like the UCs care about what major you apply as, but they have a different system.</p>
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<p>Actually, it depends on which school within the university. The College of Letters and Sciences does not admit by major; they don't need to meet quotas for majors.</p>
<p>Right, but for Stanford you don't apply to a school within the university. You just apply to the university itself, and decide on your major later on.</p>
<p>And I've heard that the place on the application where you put your preferred major has very little significance and is only for stastical purposes and unusual circumstances, like if 90% of the best 2000 applicants select French, then they have to rearrange things somehow.</p>