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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]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. 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. 
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💯 this.
Anything arts/literary/performance is a huge win. Schools have orgs/money set aside for this and not enough interest bc all ppl list is coding clubs, Regeneron and USAMO or whatever 
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Even the National key awards for literature are still meaningful for humanities majors. Extra if you can get into Adroit. Commitment to the arts is the “easy” way to a top college, but also is where the colleges are investing more and more each year[/quote]

NP.  This is all so interesting to me.  In the past couple of decades, there was the huge push for STEM and everyone was advised to excel in STEM during high school and then go into STEM fields in college.  My kids were always huge humanities lovers and just kept on that path.  It served them well, but most of their friends went for STEM and other parents just couldn't believe we weren't jumping on the bandwagon.  Glad to see the tide is turning back.[/quote]

I think it’s helped my kid. He’s got the high stats but his major is Film. He’s done 3 years of Film Study and 3 years of Creative Writing in addition to his IB/HN English.  He loves history and his college app essay focused on storytelling and history.

He’s definitely a STEAM kid too - he taught himself coding and uses it to modify video game graphics. He also learned Adobe Premier  Pro and Final Cut Pro for video editing. He also does basic animation and graphic design. Strong in math and science but doesn’t want to engineering.

He’s been accepted to all his EA options and waiting on Ivies/T20.[/quote]

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