@gibby
This comes from a former Admission officer at Yale.
http://nypost.com/2016/02/07/former-yale-admissions-officer-reveals-secrets-of-who-gets-in/
“Deciding which 14 percent of the applicants would get the golden ticket was really tough work. Once the children of alumni, recruited athletes, underrepresented minorities or regions and students interested in ‘’'underenrolled major”" were considered, there wasn’t much room for your generic genius. (By today’s standards, 14 percent doesn’t seem so brutal. In 2014, Yale got nearly 31,000 applicants and accepted a mere 6.3 percent of them.)"
And in another report, which shows you the number of students graduated with a particular major declaration, only 2% students graduated with a statistics major in the Class of 2016. I think we can positively infer that applying as a Data science and Statistics intended major can give you an advantage in some cases.