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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a family whose kid similarly applied to Stanford for an undersubscribed major -- with a sincere interest in that subject, but no intention of majoring in it. Kid graduated from Stanford with a CS degree and is now at a big tech firm. FWIW, my child did not do this. They felt like it would be fake at best and lying at worst. They are a senior now and have several good schools to choose between (not Stanford or equivalent, though), with more to hear from in RD. [/quote] You would think Stanford would be wise enough to do some internal research on this. How difficult would it be? Some work study computer kid could do it, with access to high school transcripts. First cut would be looking at kids, longitudinally, who had intended under-subscribed majors, then looking at their high school transcript (AI can do this), and coding for AP Computer Science and/or 5 years of science (meaning an extra science was chosen as an elective) and/or multivariate calculus and/or AP Macro/Micro. Then, obviously, comparing this to what the kids actually ended up majoring in. That first-level analysis alone might well “out” most of the switcheroos. Then you can get down into the data, isolate/combine variables, come up with new variables etc. [/quote]
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