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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Intrigued by humanities boy who got into Brown despite DCUM predicting he wouldn’t. Do you have to declare a major when applying to Brown? My DS has strong credentials in unusual humanities area. Not necessarily what he wants to study though. Can he apply as the unusual major and then switch if he wants?[/quote]

Even if students don’t declare majors, they usually give hints about what they want to study and be.

It’s idiotic beyond human understanding for unhooked, non-URM kids who are not National Merit valedictorians with national awards to hint to T50 schools that they want to be CS, business or premed-oriented biology or chemistry majors.

Those are very difficult, expensive majors for colleges to offer right now, because hiring is difficult and the infrastructure needed to support the classes is expensive. Meanwhile, every boring, money-worshipping, AI-cheating-focused, parent-pushed moron is trying to major in those subjects.

The goal for unhooked students with just OK stats is to hint to the schools that the students will be fun and cheap to educate, and that they will be great at keeping service clubs, performing arts organizations or school publications alive.

So, even at T50 schools that pretend not to care what kids will major in, it’s critical to give the impression that the applicant will first-major in the humanities or social sciences. [b]Express an interest in business, CS or premed only if the applicant’s record is such that there’s no other way to present the applicant’s record. [/b]
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The very best thing you can do for your kids is get them to show some strong authentic interest in non-stem, non-business, non-pre med, non-CS related activities/majors.

And create a very lengthy and vibrant activities list/evidence for such humanities interest.

At our high school, kids with evidence for humanities majors tend to do extremely well in Ivy /ivy+ placement, even with slightly lower scores and/or GPA. in fact our private college counselor has told us it is considered more acceptable for humanities majors to be test optional, than it is for stem major at schools were even 50% of admitted class is admitted test optional (WashU/Vandy/Stanford).[/quote]

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