<p>Is it true that you can get into a top tier school with less-than-average stats if you apply in an unpopular major and switch once you are accepted?</p>
<p>For example, could one be accepted at John Hopkins if one applies as a linguistics major and then switch majors to chemistry once admitted?</p>
<p>How easy is it to switch majors in college?</p>
<p>To answer your first question in a word: no. For colleges where you’re admitted to the school as a whole and choose your major later (as opposed to colleges where you apply specifically to, say, the engineering or business school), your choice of major makes little to no difference in whether or not you’re accepted. Colleges know that students very often change their minds about what they want to major in, and at many schools you don’t even choose your major until the end of your sophomore year. How easy it is to switch majors will depend on the specific college and the subjects involved.</p>