<p>This information about the UC system is intriguing. One untested observation I take away is that popular majors MIGHT get more scrutiny, such that Nutritional Health is going to require a higher GPA for admission to the major because interest is high at that school and capacity always has limits. Thank you for pointing me to it, ucbalumnus and dietz199. At a particular institution, one would think, the popularity of a major and capacity of a department will be different from that of another institution, perhaps suggesting that admissions officers at a particular institution might favor one proposed major over another but that there is less likelihood of there being a national bias for one proposed major over another. One MIGHT have to take it institution by institution.</p>
<p>Does anyone know of stats on institutional admission decisions based on proposed major at non-UC institutions?</p>