Majors: I’m interested in the major question, but don’t have local data for the top 10 students. One comment is that the top 10 students often attend universities where declaring a major is not required for 1-2 years.
We have a 4-year HS engineering program where mechanical engineering is the overwhelmingly highest major stated by graduates. CS is next, followed by “engineering, other” and biology. The engineering program is currently about 1/5 of the school and probably about 1/2 of the students headed to a 4-year university out of high school.
So, STEM majors overwhelmingly. The first non-STEM majors on the list are Business and Economics.
LACs: Our school has very few who apply to LACs and small colleges, especially compared to the number who apply to the UC system. I think LACs aren’t all that well-known on the West Coast. Naviance says our averages for some selected schools over the past 3 years:
UCLA applications: 95
Berkeley applications: 85
USC apps: 50
Stanford apps: 45
HYP apps: 15
Other Ivy apps: 10-20
MIT apps: 15
Caltech apps: 8
Harvey Mudd apps: ~10
Pomona apps: 5
Williams apps: 2
Amherst apps: 3
Local community college “apps”: >200