<p>People mention this often, and while I know there are the obvious engineering and sciences, I'm not sure what humanities majors are hard to get into. I'm personally interested in majoring in Sociology, and I'm not sure if applying undeclared might be to my advantage or not. My other interest would be English.</p>
<p>Anybody know? If it depends on the school, let's say for UCLA and USC.</p>
<p>bump...answers are always nice.</p>
<p>Let me be the first to answer you then. For the most part humanities usually falls under the umbrella of the college of arts sciences. While the applied sciences often have their own schools or specialized areas the arts and sciences (humanities) often do not. In essence humanities arn't really differentiated from one another in the application pool like the applied science/math/buisness majors are. At least that's how its done at my school :) I'm pretty sure someone will come along and explain it more elequently and with more specific examples .. but I hope this gets the ball rolling for you.</p>
<p>Philosophy is hard. Try and read Kant, see how sane you are afterward. You need to write like an English major, think like a Physics major, research like a History major, have an attitude of a Theology major, and make money like Theater major.</p>
<p>I think the poster was refering to what majors that you declare on college applications would be to you disadvantage due to the abundance of applicants for the particular major. Generally Political Science and Psychology (we're getting science-y in this case) are very popular majors in the majority of colleges out there. Philosophy not so much...as for philosophy being a challenging major to accomplish see the post above. I may be wrong, but Classics? I don't see that as being a very popular choice among incoming freshmen.</p>
<p>Political Science isn't a humanities major ...</p>
<p>I don't think applying to specific major will hurt your chance. Think about it, most college students change their major at least two to three times in four years. Universities certainly know this, so why should they put much stock in what you said "you'll study". Competitive programs that is hard to get in to usually are reserved for sophomore applicants; i.e. like International Study at certain school. There might be a different if you're applying into a specific college under umbrella of a university. For example, Lynch School of Education under BC, Wharton School of Business under Upenn, or Engineering at Tufts. Other than that, applying to a major wouldn't do much. Applying to College of Arts and Sciences as a English major versus a Classics major wouldn't be much of a different.</p>