<p>People! When the date 1/1 the common app was due, my mom was the person who sent them out because the info was stored on her computer. She selected the whole three interest majors for me. I just found out that she made two mistakes, I wanted political science but for Stanford she put physical science and for Harvard she put pre-med. Both were accidents. Is this situation dire? OMG I can't believe this happened. OMG</p>
<p>uhh lol, well I can’t exactly say that’s entirely undeserved. It’s kind of late to be crying over spilled milk isn’t it? Well I’d just learn for future reference, not to have my parents fill out my college applications for me.</p>
<p>I believe both H and S admit major-blind. I know Stanford does anyway, you don’t declare your major till after your freshman year. Its all good.</p>
<p>That is just not helping. I wrote down the three things for her and all I asked her to do is just select and click send!</p>
<p>Just tell me if that’s totally messing up everything.</p>
<p>Thanks ngolsh314, I didn’t see your comment when I wrote the lines above.</p>
<p>chill man
Although colleges do like for you to be careful, I myself put “business” as a major in ALOT of schools that didn’t actually have them (wasn’t paying attention and thought it was career interests, not major). So far, I’ve gotten in pretty much all the colleges that I thought i would, (Uchicago, NW, UVA etc.) Though I did get deffered EA to stanford, I highly doubt that one little mistake like that would do it. Just relax and wait for the decisions to come out soon!</p>
<p>No. and don’t freak out.</p>
<p>okay, man I don’t even know what physical sciences mean, and I hate meds.
I’ll just hope for the best.</p>
<p>Physical sciences mean things like physics et al.</p>
<p>Well it might look kind of weird to the admissions office it\f your essay had to do with the majors you wanted and it doesn’t match your stated major, but other than that, it doesn’t affect the likeliness of your being accepted.</p>
<p>do you know how many people actually end up sticking with the same major all the way through college?
The number is really small. In fact I heard that the average student changes their major about three times. It wouldn’t make sense based on this data for colleges to admit people based on major. I’m not really sure why they ask… maybe just as a way to see what you are considering?
If I were you, I would just chill out… its no biggie</p>
<p>I sure hope you guys are right, but you guys sound reasonable so I’m glad. Yeah, it was more the rush of the moment. I sort of cried and my mom was laughing at first and then a bit apologetic and claim that she’s too old to multi-task…Then we just hugged. Aye aye, okay I am calm now.</p>
<p>Lesson learned: don’t let your mom fill out your college applications. Lawlz.</p>
<p>It would help to apply for majors that EXIST in that particular college. I think thats the only way it would hurt you.</p>
<p>Since this has been revived – OP, how did the decision turn out?</p>
<p>hey - it’s okay, i think most unis don’t care about major now.</p>
<p>Ah, I got wait-listed.
I’m still going to try and get in though :D</p>