Does Migration Assistant Have "Drive Options"?

We're planning on acquiring a new iMac this upcoming week, one the has both the 256 GB SSD and the 2 TB HD.
We want to use Migration Assistant in association with our current iMac which only has a 1 TB drive.
Question: does Migration Assistant offer the user choices of where the files from the old iMac are migrated to on the new iMac?
More specifically, we want to put the applications on the 256 GB SSD and all other files on the 2 TB internal HD.
Will Migration Assistant allows us to do this?

Have a read here http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/SetupOther.html
Stefan

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