<p>So I was very foolish and just realized that I put a different major(Mathematics) for the Future Plans section than the one I want to pursue at Cornell( Electrical Engineering). I was applying to schools like Amherst and UChicago that don’t have engineering programs, and just put math instead-and repeated it for all the colleges. </p>
<p>Will this affect my chance of getting into Cornell?</p>
<p>It might if you applied to the College of Engineering at Cornell, since Engineering doesn’t offer a Mathematics major. (The Math major is through Arts & Sciences.)
[Cornell</a> Engineering: Majors](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/academics/undergraduate/curriculum/Majors/]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/academics/undergraduate/curriculum/Majors/)</p>
<p>It sounds like this is on the main common portion of your application though, so I imagine it will have less of an impact there than if it was in your Cornell engineering essay. Did you show in your essay a clear indication of your plans and why you felt Cornell is a good fit for you? (That would hopefully more than compensate for any confusion from the one word response in the future plans section…)</p>