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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From another post, [b]how many senior parents[/b] (or their paid college counselors) evaluated the benefits of applying to different majors strategically for T25 selective schools? Or other [b]junior parents[/b]: how are you thinking about the below?

For example, your kid was interested in a major in arts & sciences like psychology or maybe biology. But because bio is oversubscribed and psychology is a more common (soon to be oversubscribed) major, and the kid also showed a real academic, personal, and EC interest in Asian American history (LOR from history teacher, school's history club, special project or paper, national history day stuff, personal family tie, etc.), then did you have your kid apply for what would have originally been a 2nd or 3rd choice (Asian American Studies) as the first choice/stated major (knowing that in arts & sciences, you are generally free to move around)?

I understand you can't "fake" this. But I'm talking about a non-STEM kid interested in 2 or 3 majors in arts & sciences. If your kid considered this, did you research how many majors graduate each year from these majors for each of your reach schools? Assuming competitive stats and rigor obviously which is always the first bar. 
1. And what was the outcome in REA/ED and RD? 
2. What worked and didn't work for your kid? 
3. Did you look at all of the Tableau or college raptor data for each college's graduating majors to figure out which majors are "undersubscribed"?
4. Any resources you might suggest?

https://www.berkeley2academy.com/single-post/major-selection-is-a-major-deal-how-to-strategize-for-college-applications[/quote]
Our students chose their own major and didn't attempt to game the admissions process by choosing an alternative. [/quote]

Same with ours. DC24 and DC27 at two different ivy/T10 unhooked, Engineering and English, each applied with true interests, and the english kid had the slightly higher counselor-stated non-published rank and SAT(both above 1520, both max rigor in all core subjects). Sure they were at schools where they could change majors easily but who wants to game a system? Be your true self and the places you fit will accept you. With ivies many top kids do not get in but there are so many ivy-like schools in the T25 that are easier to get in and nice backups. No true top kid who applied to a good balanced list and isn't a jerk has ever gotten shut out of T25 or T10 LAC from our school. Lots go for the premed or stem majors that they love. The key is to understand where your student is relative to the high school, accept that, and have a balanced list of at least 10 schools.[/quote]

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