<p>Does the major you choose have an impact on your chances? I’m applying to Stern, and I suppose almost everyone at Stern must be majoring in finance? I, on the other hand, am not interested in finance, but International Business. Would that increase my chances?</p>
<p>Applications are read by intended major (ex: all the International Business majors are read together), so take that how you will. On one hand, you’re compared to other IB majors, so you don’t have an edge over the Finance majors, but on the other hand, there’s a smaller applicant pool, so it’s easier for you to stand out.</p>
<p>What? I applied for Finance and I’m a very weak candidate statistically… Oh ****. Now I have no chance of getting in.</p>
<p>I have heard that major has no impact on your application unless it’s for a specialized program like BPE (stern) or something… but hannahhorenstein you sound like you know what’s really going on, so I don’t know. missamericanpie, where are you?</p>
<p>It doesn’t really make a difference, because you officially declare your major at the end of sophomore year. Which means you could put in management or marketing where there is virtually no one majoring in those fields, then declare finance in sophomore. So I don’t think there is any significance towards it in the application.</p>
<p>Major doesn’t have an impact on your application. So many kids have no idea what on earth they want to study, so many kids change their major within the first year, even second year, so many kids accidentally put something down on an electronic form somewhere without realizing it’s their intended major they’re writing down, and so many more will write down a major we don’t even have.</p>
<p>Contrary to what AoDay said, you can declare a major at any point. You can also change it without any problems at any point <em>up to</em> the conclusion of your fourth semester. Changing after that point tends to mess with your schedule though, as people study abroad either fourth or fifth semester or something else is predicating the order they need to take classes in.</p>
<p>I declared mine after two semesters simply so it would help my adviser plan my next year, as I was fortunate enough to have pretty much figured it out before freshman year.</p>
<p>not sure if anyone told you this but you cant major in international business alone</p>
<p>its only a comajor</p>