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idkName
Sat, 02 Apr 2016 02:00:08 +0000

@PentaDad, ooo that is going to be a little bit difficult. I actually made the same mistake in Umichigan, but reversed. In Umichigan, the CS department in art and sciences is a hollow department. It means that there are no faculty there. I still had to take courses from the Engineering school. I’m 99% sure that is the same case for Cornell. You will still be in same the classroom as Engineering. The only difference is the requirements for the degree. Engineering has more math/science requirement while arts and sciences has more humanities requirement. So, the only difficulty difference is the courses she have the take, not the courses themselves. If she is going into field of engineering, I highly recommend staying in the school of Engineering. Now, i’m not sure in terms of the difficulty of getting in the department themselves.

P.S
if she is worried about difficulty of CS in Cornell, then I highly recommend her not attend CMU. That place destroys people. I heard 1 in 4 CS majors drop out, but I been told that as long as I’m above average there, I’ll have a good career.