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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes they take your major preferences into account.

Watch AO webinars where they discuss this as naseum and why they don’t want to tell the public which majors they actually need more of.[/quote]

that's different.  that's not applying to a major.  my point is that they don't have different standards for math majors and english majors at yale. they don't say "take the math majors and rank them and choose the ones with the best math scores on their SATs".  they may say "we need more math centric kids.  so out of the kids that we have qualified and think would be a good community fit try and weight the remaining candidates we accept towards math."

it's a subtle distinction, but it is a distinction.

this can change from year to year as well.  if a bunch of last years potential math kids wound up studying art history they may heavily weight the entire cohort heavily to math.

but, they do not have different standarss for math kids vs. english kids.

again, it's subtle but people just misunderstand the process.[/quote]

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