<p>… so what is it?
in terms of easy As and workload</p>
<p>Engineering, I’m guessing</p>
<p>No way it’s engineering.</p>
<p>Most definitely Engineering Physics, no question about it.</p>
<p>True, but surely you will admit that ECE is a close second.</p>
<p>What? Is that a joke? I’ve heard that Engineering Physics is one of the more difficult courses.</p>
<p>It seems like gullibility is one of the strong suits of the Class of 2012.</p>
<p>Did you guys know that you need to take the swim test naked?</p>
<p>If you’re looking for an easy major, the obvious choice would be anything related to math/physical sciences/engineering. Complete joke majors, and I’m not being sarcastic. At all.</p>
<p>Well, to be fair, I’m used to hearing smart people at high school rant about how easy “hard” classes are, so I was wondering if I was talking to someone particularly intelligent and arrogant talking about a hyped up major.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is that type of attitude at Cornell. We do like our sarcasm though.</p>
<p>Good to hear, I suppose. Most of my friends who are like that are headed towards MIT.</p>
<p>i’m really asking this because i’m worried about going to cornell and find my grades drop significantly. b/c ultimately my goal is grad school and i know that majors in college don’t really matter for either med or law school but the grades do.
so i want to find a somewhat easier major and be able to focus on ecs or whatever.
currently i’m signed up for independent major–>a mix between econ and something else</p>
<p>ps
i can’t stand science</p>
<p>it is hard to judge which major is absolutely easiest. but, to jack up your gpa, you can choose to take easy courses. just look at the median grade report and pick the courses, esp the electives, with the higest avg grade given out.</p>
<p>the median grade report will help you a lot. although cornell decided to kill that by publishing median grades on transcripts…starting fall 08. so med/law/grad schools will see that you took all easy classes…needless to say this is not a popular new policy</p>
<p>the easiest major at cornell is: Not Coming Here in the First Place.</p>
<p>don’t go to our school if you’re looking for the easy way out. theres no room for you.</p>
<p>The Communications majors I knew didn’t do much of anything and they invited me to lectures on the impact of the Simpsons on society. Obviously such circumstances were unique, but they certainly weren’t overwhelmed with school work.</p>
<p>Plus, some of them went onto top ranked law schools with that major.</p>
<p>Um, I’ve heard ILR is not particularly hard. Many of their courses are now 4 credits each, so you only have to take four, not five, to stay on track for graduation. Of course you have to love to read.</p>
<p>I did hear someone talking about a Government course that was quite easy. Don’t know about the major as a whole, however.</p>
<p>In general, for easy majors, I’d stay away from anything biological and anything involving science labs.</p>
<p>More important, however, is studying something you really like. Then it won’t seem so much like work.</p>
<p>I think this is an important point. Everyone is saying “cornell doesnt take kids who want to take the easy way out…there is no room for those kids here…blah blah blah”</p>
<p>I just came back from Cornell Days today and from my experience, this is absolutely wrong. First example, I asked a couple freshmen girls “But…everyone here is pretty smart though right?” She was like…um…ye…i dont know about that, some of the jocks here are pretty dumb.</p>
<p>Next I went over to a frat that was holding a party that night. Many of the brothers there told me to transfer to Hotel or AEM because its the easiest school and you can just cruise by. Many of them just wanted to get by and part as hard as they could in college. I am in no way against partying, just making observation.</p>
<p>There were other signs or vibes that I got from the people on campus that showed me especially students who werent in CAS or Engineering were sometimes a bit less dedicated to learning than students at other ivy leauges. All of hte engineering kids I met seemed to be quite intelligent, but they contrasted a lot to the frat kids I had met that same day. Many were “nerdy” or “weird” in my opinion.</p>
<p>This is the reason why I’m choosing Chicago over Cornell I’ve finally decided. But, that’s just me. IMO, Cornell is a FANSTASTIC school if you want the feel of the traditional college experience (greek life, good parties, hot girls, amazing campus, etc) AND a top notch education. I’m just looking for a more intellectual atmosphere and I was not satisfied with Cornell in that aspect.</p>
<p>PS. the party was amazing though ;-)</p>
<p>AEM and Hotel deserve the reputations that they receive, for good reason. Most of the classes are intellectually easy and the workloads are less than demanding. Maybe not relative to the average state school, but definitely relative to rest of the Cornell campus and other top business programs. </p>
<p>AEM is an interesting case study as one of its implicit purposes is to serve as a haven for a certain type of varsity athletes. Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, etc. also have these types of programs. I would venture to guess that more than a quarter of the AEM program is varsity athletes. And before it became AEM (in 2002), it was really just a farm business program. </p>
<p>Personally, it will be interesting for me to see how AEM develops academically as it becomes increasingly well known across the country. If it really wants to hold a candle to MIT, Wharton, Ross, or Virginia, the academic rigor and the quality of the student body will have to improve.</p>
<p>Hotel is a different story. Some hotelies may not be as bright as the average Cornell student, but they make up for it in the sheer enthusiasm for all things hospitality related. And they go incredibly far within the field. Some of the most successful students in my Class of 2005 are Hotelies – managing Las Vegas casinos, etc. So I think they deserve their spot on Cornell’s campus, although I tend to think that it might be better if hotelies split their time between Ithaca and New York City, where they could really learn the ins and the outs of the hospitality industry without having to complain about Ithaca all the god damn time.</p>
<p>My remarks towards the academically easier corners of the University aside, Cornell’s such a diverse place that it’s easy to only see brief glimpses of the student body during your Cornell Days visit. It sounds like cory123 found the meathead fraternities pretty well, but I can guarantee you that on Cornell’s campus I could find 4,000 students (of 14,000) who would the fit the ‘Chicago intellectual’ mold as well. If you had asked to visit any one of the co-ops, Risley, Telluride, or the houses on West Campus, not to mention all of the students living off-campus, the academic climate cory would have perceived would have been pretty different.</p>
<p>The fact that Cornell is so diverse is one of the most daunting aspects of the place. It can be hard to find yourself freshman year. It’s one of Cornell’s greatest weaknesses, but ultimately also one of it’s greatest strengths.</p>
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