How about choose majors of interest.
Too many out school over major. I think it’s a mistake. You want to study what you want to study. Not try and game the system.
I’d pick exactly what I want to study. There are many great schools in this country. In all your posts, you seem tied to a few high end UC schools and in my opinion, it’s a mistake. I get it - you see value in the in-state schools but what value is there in not studying what directly interests you?
Why study PPL or Poli Sci, etc if your true desire is political economy ?
You seem to be tying UCs to automatic success that can’t be obtained elsewhere and it’s simply untrue.
It’s like kids that want to study finance but will settle for Econ for a name I get the rationale but it seems crazy to spend four years not studying what you desire.
If it’s me, I’d put down what my student wants as the top major and not game the system. If you end up at Arizona or Colorado, they can be every bit as successful or not successful as a UCLA or UCB grad - which also have both….successful and not successful grads.
Good luck.