Most Common Majors at Highly Selective Colleges and at All 4-Year Colleges

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@roycroftmom

Still don’t understand what point you are trying to make here

1. It probably satisfies some people’s curiosities about popularity of majors at the colleges focused on here versus all colleges in general.
2. It is a reminder that the colleges focused on here are not necessarily representative of all colleges in general, even though some posters write posts with the assumption that they are representative of all colleges in general.

@roycroftmom

Lots of more average students major in nursing at average schools, many of whom perhaps would not be suited for being a successful premed/doctor, the way that the very top students at elite schools do. Also true.

Nursing is usually significantly more selective (either on frosh admission or secondary admission, or both) than the college it is hosted at. A more likely reason that nursing is more common at colleges in general is that it is more accessible in terms of the money and time cost of education compared to medicine (nursing = 4 years with undergraduate cost and financial aid, medicine = 4 years undergraduate + 4 years of expensive medical school + 3-7 years of residency).