"Intended Graduate Major"

[Grad-Student]

Hey guys,

I took GRE for the first time and received my report a few days ago. The thing is I am a History major and I put History as my "Intended Graduate Major" and that is what it is showing on the score report GRE sent me. Will Graduate schools receive the same report with History listed as Intended Graduate Major? I am asking because I am not planning to apply to History programs at all, but will likely only apply to Masters in Finance programs (I did a Finance minor and a related internship).

I didn't know Intended Graduate Major would be listed on the main score report so I was not paying much attention when I selected it. Do you think universities will take notice though if a person who seemed to be planning to major in history in grad school at the time they took GRE all of a sudden decides to apply to completely un-related Finance program. Would it reflect poorly (I am guessing it would because it shows indecisiveness, no?) and adversely affect my admission prospects?

Please share your thoughts, suggestions, experiences, etc.

Thanks a lot!

[emmm]

I doubt it will matter at all and I doubt anyone, other than the person who files the papers and compiles the records, will see it. When I interviewed, I got a glimpse of my info sheet (top sheet of a packet that seemed to contain my LORs, transcripts, & SOP that the interviewers all had), and it just listed my scores and percentages. In other words, there was no slot for "Intended Major as Listed on GRE Registration Form."

[alicejcw]

I did the same thing! I accidentally put "linguistics" as my intended graduate major because it's my undergraduate major, even though it's not what I'm applying to grad school for. Anyway, I highly doubt it matters, as the programs you apply to will know from all the other parts of your application what your intended field is. At worst they might think you're also applying to history programs, but I doubt they'll even look at that.