<p>Let's say you want to major in either math or chemistry. Should you literally put "math or chemistry" on your app if it asks you what your prospective major is, or is it more appropriate to put "undecided"?</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice</p>
<p>Put something down that will give you an advantage in admission, i.e., if you are a girl, engineering. Guy, nursing.</p>
<p>yea i wanna know too...bump it up.</p>
<p>i say put at least one of them, and if it asks for a second choice major, put both. it's better to get into the major early if you want to be in it, cuz then you're set. you can always change your major, most people do at least once</p>
<p>But adcoms will know you are just trying to fool them if you put a misleading major, right? If you put nursing, but your ECs are focused on, let's say computers, that's kind of strange</p>
<p>Strange, yes. But it won't hurt you. You could just say your career interests have changed over the years.</p>
<p>Is it some sort of disadvantage to put "undecided"? Lately I've been getting the feeling that colleges expect you to "know where you'll be in ten years". I have no idea. I love English, but I've never had a chance to study psychology and I could end up loving that...</p>
<p>undecided does not hurt you. it's often called a college's "most popular major"</p>
<p>actually, it's best to put undecided - that way, just in case they are slightly biased, a common major can no longer hurt you.</p>
<p>However, if you want to do engineering, you better put engineering down because for pretty much every University, Engineering applicants are considered separately from the rest of the University's applicants.</p>
<p>How can I find out if engineering applicants are seperate?</p>
<p>If, for instance, one puts down History, and all of their EC's and test scores match that, it actas a reaffirmation. However, it can hurt the application if one puts down "nursing" but one has obviously been a history buff all their lives (as evident in their application). Remember, the most selective universities want passion and commitment, not a distorted mess of activities that are incoherent.</p>
<p>Um, you should not put a major down that you aren't interested in and/or don't have stuff to support. That's an easy way to get thrown into a reject pile at more selective schools...</p>
<p>the website should tell you everything you need to know about different majors being parts of different schools</p>
<p>So if I want to do math or chem, should I put both down or would it be more appropriate as "undecided"? (assuming my ECs support both)</p>
<p>It really depends on the school for chem and math.</p>
<p>At Cal, Chem is under the College of Chemistry while Math is under the College of Letters and Science. At Cal you are admitted under one school and inter-college transfering is really difficult.</p>