There has been this rumor going around my school and other prep schools that if you apply to a top school or
an Ivy it is better to say your major is Undecided or Undeclared rather, than have a set major; because apparently that
can widen your opportunity of getting in. At first, I was a bit skeptical, but two seniors at my school applied to go to Stanford one girl, who was valedictorian, class president, president of a majority of the schools cubs, had near perfect SAT scores, a high GPA, and was an all-A student, the other a guy, who was in the top 25 % had good grades and SAT scores, and only had two ECs. Both had interest in being engineers but, varied in what they chose for their major selections on their applications. The girl applied as an Engineering Major and got differed because “her extracurricular didn’t match up with his ambition to be an engineer”, as she says, but the guy that applied with an with his major being Undeclared, while having a strong interest in Engineering and Science, got in. Is this whole conspiracy true?