<p>how exactly can you be fit based for cals?</p>
<p>if applying for communications</p>
<p>It would be helpful if you posted the “fit based” link so we could read the entire description. I think what’s important is that you’re “fit based” for communications and then include some information about the connection to CALS (which includes the business program) too. None of the ideas, information, or processes studied, explored and discovered at CALS would be useful without optimal communication - it’s an essential ingredient to any field.</p>
<p>What kind of high school ECs did you do?</p>
<p>Culture Club (secretary)
Spanish Club
National Honor Society (secretary)
Outdoors club (2 awards)
FBLA (secretary)
Newspaper/Yearbook(editor of newspaper)
also taking 3 college communications classes</p>
<p>and i have no idea if i will get in, its my goal though</p>
<p>Newspaper/Yearbook is a start… I’m pretty sure they look for a passion in all areas of communication; not just the obvious newspaper/yearbook. There are 4 specializations for the comm major…these are straight from the website:</p>
<p>Communication, Environment, Science and Health (CESH) - </p>
<p>Students focusing in CESH will investigate how communication influences public understanding of science, health, environmental, and risk-related issues. While exploring conceptual and theoretical issues, students will learn specific skills for communicating science, health, environmental, and risk information to a variety of audiences. Possible career paths include public information officer, science writer, environmental educator/outreach specialist, environmental or health-risk communicator, and business, legal and other graduate study.</p>
<p>Communication Media Studies (CMS) -</p>
<p>Students focusing in CMS will investigate the forces that shape media in contemporary society, investigating how what we see and hear comes to be. They will also analyze and understand the psychological, social, and cultural processes that are in turn affected by media, from politics to entertainment to news to the very question of what we understand as real about ourselves and true about the world around us. Students may pursue careers in the media industries, in designing the laws and policies regarding media, in business, legal or other graduate study, or in the service of making media better; most of all, they will be more informed and astute citizens in a highly mediated world.</p>
<p>Communication and Information Technologies (CIT) -</p>
<p>Students focusing in CIT will explore the social and psychological dimensions of the design, use, and evaluation of communication and information technologies, how people form and manage impressions and relate to each other in cyberspace, the uses of language in online interaction, and how people coordinate work in virtual teams, as well as people’s interface and information needs. Possible career paths include information systems designer, research analyst, user interface designers, software designers, usability specialist, technology writer, and business, legal and other graduate study.</p>
<p>Communication and Social Influence (CSI) - </p>
<p>Students focusing in CSI will use communication principles to analyze issues and situations involving groups, organizations and selected audiences to design, implement, and evaluate appropriate communication programs. Courses stress the positive, ethical, and effective uses of communication in human affairs. This focus area would be appropriate for students interested in using communication to bring about change at the individual and societal level. Possible career paths include public relations, marketing communications, polling, human resources, governmental affairs, and business, legal and other graduate study.</p>
<p>Basically, if you want to “prove” your fit, try and figure which one of these would be your specialization if you were to come here, and do whatever ECs you can that you are passionate about that would show that you are a good candidate because you specifically want to major in X specialization in the COMM major at Cornell.</p>
<p>i like the CSI…and yeah i saw these earlier actually while looking for more info abotu the major…but im not sure what extracirriculars i can do with sociology and communication</p>
<p>should i take an online sociology course or something? or what can i actually do, because im not sure what ECs would relate to this</p>