<p>I want to major in French, but some schools don’t have that specific option in their “academic interests” on common app. But anyways, these are the 3 academic interests I am putting in on my common application, and i’m wondering if they are very competitive in admissions/hard to get accepted into, or the opposite?</p>
<p>I’m mostly asking for American University (DC).</p>
<p>-Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics
-Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities
-History</p>
<p>Not nearly as competitive as a major like pre-med for example. Those are decently chill majors I would say.</p>
<p>That’s what I’m thinking. The most competitive ones must be anything regarding medicine, engineering, and perhaps science I’m thinking.
But does this mean that admissions to school/college of arts and sciences would be easier to get into, or tougher to get into? By that I mean, maybe AU don’t need to accept that many arts and sciences students, or something like that?</p>
<p>Premed is not a major, it just refers to the coursework need to apply to med schools. You can major in ANYTHING and still be premed.</p>
<p>There are relatively few occasions where major makes any difference in college admissions, because students change majors often. It is usually only an issue when you are applying for a specific department within a college (eg. engineering). A humanities vs. science major is not going to make any difference at AU.</p>
<p>Je ne sais pas, desole.</p>
<p>Bonne Chance!</p>
<p>Okay, thank you for the reply! That makes sense, I thought that might be the case, but secretly hoped it wasn’t :)</p>