<p>Are there certain engineering majors at MIT that never seem to have enough applicants or interested people?</p>
<p>You can see enrollment numbers for each major [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/registrar/www/stats/yreportfinal.html%5Dhere%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/registrar/www/stats/yreportfinal.html]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>MIT doesn't admit by major, though, so indicating interest in a small department will not help you be admitted.</p>
<p>You can try underwater basket weaving.</p>
<p>MIT never gets enough qualified applicants for Course 19.</p>
<p>Sakky, I know quite a few people that would beg to differ. MIT often seems to lack enough <em>competent</em> applicants for Course 19, however...</p>
<p>Qualified, competent. You say tomato, I say tomahto...</p>
<p>what's course 19 again? sorry for my ignorance..</p>
<p>Course 19: Applied Mechanical Engineering in an Urban Setting.</p>
<p>Hacking, in other words. :)</p>
<p>More seriously, though, course 22 (nuclear science and engineering) never has more than a handful of majors per year.</p>
<p>I've heard a lot about going EE or ME for undergraduate and then specializing in graduate school. Any thoughts on this?</p>
<p>Your indicated major will almost certainly change 1+ times over the course of your college years, so I can't really think of any school where indicating an "unpopular" major would help you get in.</p>
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I've heard a lot about going EE or ME for undergraduate and then specializing in graduate school. Any thoughts on this?
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That's a great idea, and it's what a lot of people do.</p>
<p>If, however, you know in your soul what field you want to be, even if it's specialized, then by all means major in that as an undergraduate. I was a neuroscience major, and my husband was an aerospace engineering major, because both of us knew that's what we wanted to be (and we were right -- he's working as an aerospace engineer and I'm a neurobiology graduate student). But if you're not that fiery about a specialized major, then by all means wait to specialize until your later training.</p>