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I wouldn't assume any consistency as to what "applied science" means between universities. When I was an undergraduate, at least, Caltech's interpretation of "Engineering and Applied Science" had a particular set of courses that "counted" toward the major, which were generally things like engineering, computer science, applied physics, control theory, applied math, and that sort of thing. I was rather annoyed that biology, "computation in nervous systems," and and those sorts of things did *not* count. I'm not sure if that has been changed, but certainly the spirit of "applied science" at Caltech meant "taking scientific findings and applying them to engineering problems," while things like biology, theoretical physics, astronomy, and math were more "pure science" and not "applied science."
edit: Caltech has fixed this to some extent: CNS now counts, and 3 classes can come from other science areas, like biology, astronomy, physics, math, etc. But still, anyone wanting to do marine biology would need to be a biology major, not engineering and applied science.
edit: Caltech has fixed this to some extent: CNS now counts, and 3 classes can come from other science areas, like biology, astronomy, physics, math, etc. But still, anyone wanting to do marine biology would need to be a biology major, not engineering and applied science.