Many schools don’t admit by major - and if these majors are in the colleges of arts and science, it likely won’t matter.
But - if you have a preferred major, that’s what you should apply for. If you get into a school you like but not the major, what’s the point. Don’t assume you can transfer.
So to me you are going about this the wrong way. Apply to math if that’s what you want everywhere. If one school says no, there’s another that will say yes.
If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your ethnicity?
SUNY UMD and Purdue I would consider, in trying to see if I can reach higher with the approach since the work Visa crises is at its peak right now and if I’m coming back or staying in European countries/Canada. Not to say any of the institutions are not prestigious, but US news is really brainwashing companies here; it’s basically the “bible” for hiring employees. Even if I’m considering becoming an entrepreneur, I do have to think about alternatives (Becoming an employee and being critiqued by the “Bible”).
None of the students here want to be critiqued that way. My friends have all talked to me about that concern, and no one likes the idea of this approach, being ranked, and being judged because of it. The truth is, no one likes it, and no one has a single idea about why it’s happening.
You can try and reach but other than maybe U Hawaii, every school I mentioned is substitutional. Dallas is loaded with companies and is Minneapolis. UMD and Purdue are STEM/Math powerhouses - as is UMN.
I think you are splitting hairs when you say reach higher - and you are picking some of these over others.
I still think you get into a school on your list - but this just gives you more opportunity at really what are substitutional schools, even to your schools.
Something makes me wonder. You have mentioned a statics major, or an anthropology major.
If you go with anthropology, where do you intend to work after graduation? Are you hoping to work in the US? I do not know anthropology much at all, but I am dubious whether there are many jobs here in the US for an anthropology major who does not have US citizenship or permanent residence.
Statistics or mathematics are usually more employable majors. However, even here being able to work in the US after graduation is a long shot.
At this point I am not clear what your home country is. However, you might want to think about how to improve your employability in your home country. Would attending a highly ranked university help you in this regard? How would getting a degree from a university in Canada versus getting a degree from a university in the US be looked upon in your home country? One plus might be that most likely relatively few people worldwide are mad at Canada right now.
I have wondered whether it would be worth applying somewhere such as Simon Fraser University in Canada, as a school which is good for both math and anthropology, but for which admissions might be safer compared to the best known Canadian universities. Simon Fraser might also cost a bit less for an international student compared to the better known universities (it did when I last looked but that was a while ago). You might want to also take a look at the University of Victoria.
I am also wondering whether the current visa issues in the US might cause more international students to apply to universities in Canada, which might make it more difficult to predict admissions at the highest ranked universities in Canada.
If I go with anthropology, it will definitely be a double major as yes, I understand the employability issue even if I like the major. More likely would it be stats, or applied statistics.
I’ve put my ethnicity a few replies up; and the place really focuses on ranking because of the low patience of HR’s to learn circumstances of each US college. Schools in Canada are often tagged with “easy to get in” and are not very highly regarded. The same goes with US schools lower than 30 something in the US in US news except for a select few private schools that have been renowned yet kicked down due to their class size, tuition, etc.
I’m putting those Canadian schools in my safety because there have basically been no rejects from our high school to Canadian universities. Even if the person did not take AP, IB, or basically get like 3s and 2s for all of them still managed to get in regardless.
An old saying is that Toronto and McGill are way easier to get admitted to compared to Harvard, but if admitted might not be any easier to graduate from.
I know or have known multiple people who got a bachelor’s degree in Canada, and then got some form of graduate degree (usually either master’s or PhD or both) in the US. This does include students who got their graduate degree at either Stanford or Princeton (and U. of Washington and probably somewhere else). Apparently if you are able to get high grades at the Canadian schools then admissions in the US understands how hard this was. Whether this also applies to employers in China I would not know.
Yes everyone seems to know the standards you have to live up to in canada to graduate. However, it’s just the stupid caste I mentioned created by both stupid ranking systems (US and QS) that creates this phenomenon.
At UCs, if you apply for Anthropology you’ll be stuck in anthropology (not sure how feasible a statistics minor is - ie., how feasible registering for courses towards a stem minor is, something worth looking into). Can you add Cal Poly SLO and Cal Poly Pomona or would that be useless in your home country?
An alternative is to choose an undergraduate degree at a lesser ranked university where you can get a big scholarship then use the $$ saved from undergrad to get a Masters at a top university.
Btw are you interested in anthropological science (soils, bones, forensics…) or cultural anthropology (how humans evolved, how societies construct myths, etc)? Some degrees offer a specialization in one or the other after first year overview of the field.
Due to the US student visa crisis, you can also use the English and Scottish universities plus any European program that teaches in English.
Love slo it’s where my stats teacher got his undergrad. However I’ll just put it’s useless in my home country.
I’m still doing some research on the UCs transfer system. Take my interest in anthro as an extension on stats. I’ve spent the past two years discovering the thin paper between statistics psychology and anthro; I put my academic goal trying to quantify previously such seemingly unquantifiable things.
I just calculated my weighted gpa and adding my midterm would give 3.86-7uw 4.07w 3.9capped. Would that hinder my chances into UCs? Why have former classmates of mine gotten in with much lower gpas ECs etc?