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hoonose
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:47:05 +0000

I can comment a bit on engineering workload. Like the OP said, it varies a lot. The great thing about Cornell is that if you want to do something, you can usually get permission to. I’m a sophomore double majoring and minoring with no AP credit, so I’m taking 6 “real” classes this semester, along with two 1-credit pass/fail classes, a 1 credit research position. As such, I’m pretty busy, but I still have a bit of time to see friends and play in the pep band at sporting events.

On the other hand, if you have a decent amount of AP credit and you just want to get the standard degree, you can probably get away with taking 4 classes for most semesters, which will leave you tons of free time to do whatever you want. Keep in mind that there will always be some hell weeks in which you have many projects and prelims in the same week. However, no matter what schedule you take, the first 6 weeks of the semester will generally be pretty chill.