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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]

Yes you can do this almost everywhere if it’s in humanities/arts & sciences.

People do this all the time at Stanford.[/quote]

why specifically Stanford?[/quote]

Bc CS at Stanford is not housed or silo’d in a separate school there. Common advice from private college counselors is never to apply to CS at Stanford since everyone can be a CS major anyway.

Look at the Stanford major #s. Apply as history, philosophy, English, other liberal arts, etc provided evidence for stated major.[/quote]

People try this for ivies and Duke and Stanford all the time from our private, almost always kids not quite considered in the top smarts group by courses and grades. It never works. Instead multiple top schools took the Stem/engineering kid with the stem ECs plus some crazy music EC and rejected the humanities ones(who were not quite tops). And some years a true humanities kid with ECs and awards for 4 yrs to back it up, get in to ivy. But they are also at the very top of the class. You cannot game the system, AOs can tell true interests from activities and essays and LOR[/quote]

well, it takes a LOT of planning!! you obv need really long and enduring ECs.And ofc take out all the Stem ECs!! Duh!!
No whiff of CS or engineering in the application AT ALL!

Also, we know so many dual humanities and CS majors at Stanford. Its normal there.

And anyone has to be[/quote]

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