<p>If the people they would except all have the same prospective major, would they defer some of those and take people with less academically sound stats?</p>
<p>I am a prospective theater major and my academics are above average, but below many of the normal applicants for yale. However, my resume is extremely focused on theater and shows intensity and devotion to my passion. The things on my resume that dont relate to theater, (Model UN 4 years, Captain junior and senior year with best delegation awards, and a large amount of volunteer work through 4-h) could even be said to help my theater career. MUN being a public speaking program and helping me think on my feet and some of my volunteerism was in community theater for children.</p>
<p>Does yale look to fill majors? And if so, does that mean I would have a better chance than someone who has much higher academics but is less focused and concentrated on theater?</p>
<p>In all admissions info sessions, it’s clearly stated that all applicants are being admitted to the Yale College pool, knowing that their general population tends to fill out the breadth of departments and majors in due time (a goodly half of the majors don’t need to be declared until beginning of Junior year). Since practically everyone switches majors, they place no resources into pre-sorting or favoring one type over the other in the admissions stage.</p>
<p>Also, demonstrated academic achievement is the first foundation of a successful applicant. Not saying that if you were a 2150SAT that you’d automatically fare worse than a 2200SAT.</p>
<p>Ah man…I thought I was gonna have a better chance. </p>
<p>My interviewer told me that Yale looks at each applicant in 3 ‘bubbles’ that one is academia, one is what you would bring to the college life {volunteerism, engagement in activities, etc.}, and the other is passion to your intended major. I don’t think he was lying {not that you are, i’m certain your not} It’s just that maybe he didn’t mention to me that the first bubble was a larger concern?</p>
<p>To me he made them sound on an even plane, but maybe I misunderstood…</p>
<p>Yeah I think they would take it into consideration. If it’s there on the application I do think it must be there for a reason, even if it isn’t a deciding factor in your admissions decision. If you whole application focuses on theatre and you list your 3 prospective majors as theatre, music and english, then I reckon it would be evaluated within your application. I think that could help you in that respect, as opposed to having theatre related ECs, writing your essays about your love for drama and hoping to one day work in the film industry, and then saying that your possible majors are physiotherapy, library science and animal husbandry… then they might think “hmm… well that’s a bit weird”. Or they might think that you’re interesting and have a wide range of interests. But then again, that could come across as being fickle and unfocused. So in short… I don’t know.</p>