@HappyAlumnus: That’s just silly. [Undergrad major (and undergrad GPA)](http://www.unc.edu/edp/pdf/NLBPS.pdf) are not positively correlated with bar passage. LSAT and 1st year grades are. Schools already screen for LSAT, and it’s physically impossible to screen for first year grades. The LSAT also handily captures being “sharp.” I do not understand where you keep getting this stuff.
You’re right about EEs being more employable, though that’s because of shortages in IP hiring. I haven’t seen any evidence that “harder” majors do better otherwise at OCI. Do you have such data?
@Barfly: That explanation of majors and the patent bar makes more sense. I agree.
Deans lie because they are lobbyists for their schools. Their primary job is raising money. Public school deans have a special motive for lying in that evaluating applicants “holistically” is constitutionally required if they also want to practice affirmative action. The only law school in the country that I know of that selects for major is Yale, and that’s because they’ve already got their pick of GPA/LSAT (and major is almost certainly a distant factor behind other softs). I have seen claims, but no solid evidence, that the same is true of Stanford. That is the extent to which law schools care about major.