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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Harvard and Yale are generally not where top STEM students go.[/b] But to your point, every admissions officer can tell what a student is likely to major in. Someone that has won poetry prizes and does theater is not likely to choose engineering. Someone that is president of the math club and has won science awards is not likely to be a gender studies major. And so on and so forth.

Selective schools have decades of data. They generally know what they are doing as they put together a broad and varied class. There really aren't a lot of humanities students trying to sneak into engineering or business.  [/quote]

Not always true.  We know a kid who had his picking between Princeton, Stanford, Yale and Harvard and it came down to the later two.[/quote]

I mean, of course it's not true.  Harvard was the original silicon valley school.[/quote]

They actually ended committing to Yale.[/quote]

For STEM!?!?![/quote]

Yes!  Engineering.[/quote]

Yikes. Of the choices should have chosen Stanford.[/quote]

Stanford has much bigger undergrad engineering courses as well as overall cohort than the other 3. Yale has the smallest of those listed, cohort and students per course, and hence the least competition to be among the top couple of handfuls of undergrads in Engineering there, get into a lab early, TA, etc. Presuming the engineering they want is the types Yale has. It would not and in fact was not my engineer's pick, but I understand the pull of what Yale could offer a specific type of kid. [/quote]

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