<p>Hey,
How does Cornell ORE do in investment banking? I searched it on this forum, but I didn’t find much info. I’m a really a-type person, I guess you could say, and I do very well in interviews and in situations where confidence and speaking ability are key, so I would hope that I would have a chance of doing well in the interviews and the personable part of the internship-finding experience. I can’t ever see myself doing anything that involves engineering for a career though, nor can I see myself going to grad school for engineering, I just like the principles involved and I like math/science a lot, and I’m doing an engineering internship right now and I think I would like the undergrad curriculum.
Any input on the ORE program, how hard it is to get a good GPA (assuming that you work really hard-EE and ChemE will bring down your gpa regardless of what you do, according to my friends in boston), and how the placement is into IB would be very appreciated.</p>
<p>A side-question is, how feasible is it to take both the premed courses and major in ORE? I feel like it should be managable, since you have to have a higher GPA/same to get into IB than/as a top-tier med school. And both need great EC’s.</p>
<p>Bump</p>
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<p>bump. c’mon its a few weeks till the ED deadline…</p>
<p>Hello, I am currently a ChemE at Cornell University. ORE is seen as one of the more lax engineering disciplines and depending on the amount fo AP credits you receive it would be possible to take your pre-med requirements as electives (granted this does depend on what your advisor thinks is best for you). If you are definitely serious about investment banking, I would apply to the Hotel School. They have a higher percentage of graduates on Wall Street and related fields. Your engineering GPA will be lower (average GPA of the Engineering school is a 2.7), so definitely keep this in mind when applying.</p>
<p>I looked at the reqs, and it seems that premed and ore go well enough together that it is not necessary to take any courses outside of the required courses for completing the ORE major, and I will have completed all premed requirements and multiple courses in English and another language. I have heard that ORE is the easiest engineering subject, as you said, but I do realize that its not actually ‘easy’. Not that I care; it sounds interesting and I’m up for the challenge. Do you know anyone who’s majoring in it that’s not doing well? That is to say, do ORE’s usually average a higher GPA than the 2.9 CoE average?</p>
<p>Hi I’m currently majoring in ORIE and would just like to clarify a few things.</p>
<p>Indeed, OR is considered as one of the easier engineering majors (along with ISST and maybe Civil), and it’s without a doubt that we don’t need to take some of the harder courses such as Physics III - Oscillation and Functional Programming. However, it’s also much more math and conceptual based than other disciplines and emphasizes strongly on linear algebra, probability statistics, stochastics, and simulation modeling. </p>
<p>In terms of GPA, the reason why OR majors may have a slightly higher average than other disciplines is that we have some of the “easier” required courses such as Accounting. However that’s only 1 or 2 courses and shouldn’t make that big of a difference. If you look at other required courses such as Optimization or Engineering Statistics, the median grade, just like the median grade of other engineering areas’ required courses (ie: Statics for MechE, Solids for MSE), is B/B-. Therefore, if you are the average OR student, no, i don’t think your GPA will be much higher than the average ChemE student except maybe that easy A from Accounting may help just a little.</p>
<p>But then again, median GPA can be deceiving and doesn’t tell you how “hard” it is to get that A. For instance, for OR a weeder course is ENGRD 2110 (Intermediate Java), but that course actually has a pretty high median grade of B+. It is, however, very time consuming and if you don’t have good programming intuition, is ridiculously difficult.</p>