Cornell (AEM) vs. Boston College

roneald
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:40:33 +0000

3. Cornell’s “no majors outside of your school” policy is hard to take in. Is there any way to get around it, because I would really like to couple AEM with philosophy in CAS?



Just because you can’t major in it doesn’t mean you can’t take classes (and honestly, there is no job difference between a single and double major). For example, I’m an ILR student, this was my schedule:

Fall:

Econ class

ILR class

Government class

Philosophy class

Philosophy class

Spring:

ILR class

Stat class

Econ class

Math class

Philosophy Graduate Seminar

The requirements for AEM are similar in that you will have much room to take electives in whatever fields you want (from what I’ve seen no major outside of engineering will need more than 3 required classes in any one semester to fulfill graduation requirements by senior year, and most semesters will require 2; this means you’ll have 1-2 classes per semester to take electives in whatever you wish).