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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You be apply to an Ivy as a humanities/Social Sciences major and then declare a STEM major as a sophomore. What a waste of time it was to stand out in STEM! [/quote]

Actually you can't. No humanities major at any T20 is stumbling into an engineering degree sophomore year. That ship has sailed. [/quote]

Well, no, it depends. At schools that have engineering undergraduate degree but do not have an engineering-admit undergrad school (ie brown, princeton, others) you apply to the one undergraduate school and anyone can register for the engineering classes. No different than being a secret physics or CS male who pretends to be interested in english and philosophy to get in, then starts the physics or CS major prereqs once it is time to register for freshman classes.

If you are at a top school requiring admission to Engineering undergrad ( Penn, Columbia, Northwestern, etc) then sure it is hard to transfer over to E-school but nothing is stopping any "humanities" kid from becoming a physics or math or other stem major from the start. Anyone admitted can start freshman year with all the pre-reqs for whatever science major they want(physics, calc, etc are often taken with the physics or chem major college kids) and some T15s allow this as a path for a small number of freshman each year to transfer into the E-school with no graduation delay and maybe only a summer class or two to catch up.

Schools especially T15/ivy know this very well. They 100% understand stem is popular and students know that interest makes it harder to get in. 
They look at interests and ECs carefully to try to have more balance among students, but it still happens all the time. It is another reason these schools expect the "humanities" interested kids (real and faux) to have taken at least a couple of the hardest stem classes at their high school. They want to admit students who can have a change of heart and have a good chance of success in what will be a competitive stem peer group once they are on campus. 
True humanities-interested students are relatively rare in the applicant pool especially males and it is definitely an admissions boost even at the top. [/quote]
I'm learning that people on dcum just don't have many interests. I started in English and Philosophy and moved into physics after taking an intro then liking it. A lot of people here need a liberal arts education.[/quote]

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