Advice about declaring major on applications

forblueskies
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:46:35 +0000

Hello, I am an Asian American student interested in being a pre-med candidate in college, but I want to major in political science and minor in philosophy. I plan to declare myself as a political science major on my applications, but will it look (and I don’t really have a much better word than this) inconsistent and/or I purposely veered away from declaring a science major because I am Asian?

A couple of my more important ECs (biomedical research internship both at Penn and Stanford, research volunteer position at Children’s Hospital) indicates that I’m heavily interested in science, so it would seem (maybe? maybe not?) that I would want to be a science or engineering major, but I’m actually interested in public policy and bioethics. Do you think this is something I should explain somewhere in my application?

thanks!