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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lesson: apply undecided arts & sciences [/quote]

1000+, stay away from CS, engineering & business majors[/quote]

Sure that might work, get in A&S at a top 20 private as “undecided” and study physics or math since majors are open to anyone who gets into the school. However the AO’s at ivy-types have gone on record that they know students do this and they can decipher interests easily from ECs. They want authentic applications and can tell most of the time when they are not. 
They presume, correctly, that someone applying to say Duke “undecided” yet has a lot of math and coding related ECs had a goal of CS or math major. The major is not restricted, no major is there or at almost all ivy-level. However they do not want students who have all the same interests and all piling into the current trend of Stem. The “undecided” with math/coding ECs will be grouped with those who state they want math or CS when picking the class. Not picking on Duke they all do it. They have to in order to have some sort of variety among undergraduates. [/quote]

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