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Anonymous
| Is there any benefits in applying into different majors? If a school is known for engineering and is very competitive but less known for history, is there any way to know if the profile of a student accepted into the less know major is less competitive? Or are all majors equally competitive? Thoughts being you enter under history and transfer majors once in? |
Anonymous
snob |
Anonymous
Drat, the trolls from the private school forum are starting to find our college forum. |
Anonymous
| I got into Brown and Columbia and went to University of Chicago. Just a quick point, there are other great schools. I am really happy with my decision. |
Anonymous
The University of Chicago is a wonderful school! |
Anonymous
| I thought the OP was asking ... if your kid was accepted into a top school --how did they do it? They didn't specify Ivies. It does seem like a lot of moms have fear of the Ivies. What's up with that? |
Anonymous
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Probably this "fear" you mention concerns the possibility of their kid sending in 8 applications to 8 ivies -- and getting into none of them. It really is a crap shoot, even if your kid is very smart and talented. So wisely, there are some other threads here about great-but-not-so-well known schools.
It's not either/or for many of us. A good strategy might be to apply to a few Ivies (visiting this thread for tips) and then to a few great-but-not-so-well-known schools (visiting that other thread in the College forum for ideas and tips). |
Anonymous
| Sounds like a good strategy above and you didn't insult anyone in the process...that's nice. |
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Anonymous
| 14:43, are you so desperate for attention that you take 11:23's post about being nice as an invitation for trolls like you to post your stupid insults? |
Anonymous
| She's just unhappy because she got "voted off" the best-kept secret colleges thread. |
Anonymous
This actually sounds like a good strategy. I got into a "top 2" business graduate school by applying to one of their lesser known programs. I didn't actually want to switch programs after entrance, although switching wasn't an option either. Declaring a major is different, however. For somebody who wants to do, say, engineering at Carnegie Mellon, would it be a good strategy to apply for history and then switch to engineering? Provided it's not a completely different school within the university, which could make switching impossible? This sounds a bit like the strategy of packaging yourself as having a "passion" for languages on your application to that Ivy, and then switching to bog-standard pre-med once you're in. It sounds a little disingenuous, but maybe not too much so. Because to be accepted for history, or languages, you have to do a certain amount of coursework and projects in the field to get serious consideration at a competitive school. |
Anonymous
| I think schools are getting really good at 'sniffing out' applicants who aren't really passionate about a certain major. We had a mom at my daughter's school who thought Princeton would take her daughter if she chose "engineering" as her major even though the girl had no intention of studying engineering. The mom thought they would take her for engr. since there is a shortage of girls still in that major. But, Princeton is smarter than that. The girl had nothing on her application showing any interest/classes/ECs in anything related to engineering. So, the girl was rejected. |
Anonymous
| Undoubtedly true. Unless you can make a credible case that you're actually interested in your proposed major -- because you've spent lots of time on it already -- then there's probably no point to faking it. |
Anonymous
| I'd never send my son or daughter to UMCP. Too much crime in PG County, too ugly a campus and too close to home. |