<p>I was curious because I’m planning on majoring in psychology. I know girls in STEM often get advantages, but I do know that psychology is a popular major and it’s borderline STEM humanities.</p>
<p>So what do colleges consider it?</p>
<p>No but political science is stem</p>
<p>Social science</p>
<p>Psychology is a social science and therefore a STEM field (according to the [NSF](<a href=“Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - Wikipedia”>Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - Wikipedia)</a>), but it’s already female-dominated.</p>
<p>Don’t forgot library sciences halcyon</p>
<p>Colleges don’t consider it a STEM field though.</p>
<p>The “science” in STEM usually refers to physical or natural sciences, not social sciences. Though, it may vary.</p>
<p>Colleges consider it a social science, and majoring in it will confer no advantage to you in your admissions applications.</p>
<p>It’s mental engineering!</p>
<p>I doubt girls majoring in biology get any advantages…AFAIK girls get advantages in certain fields because women are underrepresented in them, not just because they’re STEM fields.</p>
<p>girls majoring in biology don’t get the benefits?? awww that would have been nice</p>
<p>why cant life just work the way i want it to</p>
<p>the advantage for girls in STEM usually comes in engineering and math fields (which are male dominated), not psychology or other “social” sciences.</p>
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Brilliant.</p>
<p>Social science =/= real science</p>
<p>girls majoring in biology don’t get the benefits?? awww that would have been nice</p>
<p>why cant life just work the way i want it to</p>
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<p>yea why doesn’t inequality always work in my favor :/</p>
<p>STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Do you see anything that says psychology.</p>
<p>No, but you don’t see anything that says physics or chemistry either.
Psychology is a social science, and some people would consider it a science for the purpose of the STEM acronym.</p>
<p>Well, it’s an ongoing debate for higher ups:
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<p>The APA (American Psychological Association) is trying to push Psychology as a STEM field. </p>
<p>But in general, psychology is considered a social science by colleges. It depends though, because some neuroscience programs are heavily, heavily rooted in psychology and the degree that ends up on your paper still a Neuroscience, B.S.</p>
<p>(This is tangential, but B.S. vs. B.A. doesn’t necessarily indicate the nature of the discipline. You can get a B.A. degree in a STEM field at a lot of colleges, and some colleges offer B.S. degrees in subjects like history.)</p>
<p>There is a game played at high schools to show how colleges select students. They choose 10 students, give them profiles and start them off with an order of high to low GPAs and then ask them to start moving around based on other attributes on their profile.</p>
<p>If I remember right, anyone whose profile says intended major is psychology has to move 4 places DOWN because way too many claim to be planning on one.</p>