Competition within Majors?

Ctesiphon
Sat, 13 Dec 2014 03:49:15 +0000

Depends on the college. Some colleges have “affected” majors, meaning they are very popular and can only admit a certain number of students into the program. An example is Carnegie Mellon’s computer science major. Most selective colleges claim to not set limits for the # of students from a particular high school.

At certain colleges you apply to the university as a whole and can select whatever major you want. At others you may apply directly to a certain school, and each school under the university can have varying acceptance rates.