<p>I was just wondering whether I should change my major. I indicated engineering but my ECs and all have nothing to do with engineering? I have no awards in the engineering field.</p>
<p>Is this a great matter of concern?</p>
<p>no : Yale has consistently stated that “possible major” is only a point of curiosity and not used for evaluation. </p>
<p>I’m a good example. I got Bs only in my Junior year Honors Chemistry and stated I wanted to be a Chem major in my application (which was the truth at that time).</p>
<p>I think is had an affect…it is difficult for people who want to follow the pre-med track because many applicants are in that group.</p>
<p>No your stated major does not matter but your ECs that gear towards a field do. The admission office in the Yale Daily News stated that the committee targets science/engineering people. So if your ECs are science and engineering focused you will get a boost, but not if you just write mechanical engineering on your application.</p>
<p>Yea, I won’t have an advantage by writing that. But will I be disadvantaged if I wrote engineering but my ECs do not substantiate that interest?</p>
<p>I have the same question. I have no engineering ECs, but put it as my major bc i’m very left-brained and that definitely shows academically (plus I do want to major in envr engineering).</p>
<p>wethepeople: yes, there are plenty of pre-meds – but there’s no indication of this based on “Possible major”. Lots of the folks I knew that went to med after Yale didn’t major in Bio or like majors. Lots of Bio and like majors never went to med school too. </p>
<p>Plus, plenty of people switch out of the pre med track once at yale too.</p>
<p>Just curious, what is an “engineering EC”?</p>
<p>Being a Science Olympiad builder, I would think.</p>