Selecting a specific school within a university; can it hurt or help your chances?

CDN_dancer
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:39:30 +0000

Depends on how admissions works at the university. If you are required to select a school, then the school you choose can affect your admissions decision; your major within that school generally will not have any effect though.

If you decide to apply to a different school with the intent of transferring to another school later on, be aware that adcoms are aware of students trying to do this, and internal transfers can be very difficult (i.e. At Penn, an internal transfer to Wharton requires an extremely high GPA)