Humanities Major at STEM-heavy school - admissions advantage

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Anonymous wrote:Are there advantages to applying as a true humanities major at a STEM school line Rice, as a male?

What is the purpose? There's no "fit" here.

Or is the strategy here to get into Rice as a religious studies major and switch to chem engineering? That might be a way to get into CMU or MIT. Go in as a religious studies major - and switch to CS. Or do a religious studies double major or minor with CS.

No switching majors. Long sustained interest. Strategy just in looking at selective schools and figuring out odds. Why do people think this is about switching the major? That’s so weird.

Just wondered if it’s easier for those candidates to get in to stem-heavy schools being non-stem.



How do you find out which schools might need more applicants in a certain major? Is that information even available?

You can get an idea of which majors are the most popular from Niche or NCES (https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/

Look at the All majors section:
https://www.niche.com/colleges/georgia-institute-of-technology/majors/

If you have time, you can sometimes get information from a college's website to determine their institutional priorities. Here is Duke's page:https://provost.duke.edu/administrative-resources/institutional-research/

Look at enrollment data, finance reports, and institutional advancement initiatives.