California Pre-Med

mom2collegekids
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:57:40 +0000

There isn’t one “source.”

I saw this when visiting several big merit schools when my 2 sons were going thru the admissions process. The NMF kids and such were more heavily within several majors. It wasn’t 100% of course, just greater concentrations within several majors.

I’ve also seen it within breakdowns of majors within honors colleges. At one university, the lowest number of students in the honors college were in…education, communication, performing arts, and such. The highest numbers were in engineering, hard sciences, math, business admin, and nursing.

And, I still don’t believe that LACs (in general…not talking about Amherst, Williams, etc) have an equal distribution of test scores across all majors. Don’t believe it.

Students in performing arts and fine arts majors can be admitted by skill, not by high test scores.

you’re not likely going to find high stats kids across all majors.

I should have written that you’re not going to find similar concentrations of high stats kids across all majors. (again, talking about Chapman and other schools that aren’t “top” or “elite” schools.)

I wrote it more clearly in post #8…

*What I’m saying is that at a school like Chapman, incoming GPAs and test scores are not uniformly distributed amongst all majors (neither at other schools). *