How is the quality of Cornell's CAS?

tweets
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:45:18 +0000

I am a prospective student of Cornell class of 2013, hoping to double major in political science and economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. I attended Cornell Day last week and sat in two classes there–Philosophy and US Congress–which were actually both very disappointing. I felt like the two professors were terribly boring, void of any spirit or passion. The students in the class also seemed disengaged from their lectures. I liked everything about Cornell except for those two classes, which made me very skeptical of the quality of Cornell’s CAS. I have heard from various sources that Cornell’s CAS is very lacking compared to the university’s other schools such as Hotel Administration and Engineering. However, as I said before, I liked everything else about Cornell such as its beautiful campus and studious environment, so I am very hesitant to give it up. I wanted to ask anybody out there, preferrably a CAS student, about the quality of CAS professors and their teaching style. I would also like to gain some insight to the quality of academics, especially polit sci and econ, at CAS.