<p>Hi everyone.
I’m an incoming freshman who got accepted into CAS.
My major will probably be mathematics with a specialty in economics. However, after helping out a family friend, I have realized that I would rather pursue a degree purely in economics with a specialty in finance. </p>
<p>Essentially, at the end of freshman year, I am hoping I can transfer into the AEM program. My main question is whether or not the transfer committee will look at my AP exams from this year. I have been hit hardddddd (and I mean HARD) by senioritis and my AP scores are not looking so good. I am about to take the microeconomics exam tomorrow and will most likely bomb it :/. It’s not that I don’t understand the material, I just can’t find it in myself to pull out that review book and study haha.</p>
<p>I have already been planning to take Econ 1110 (microecon) at Cornell during my first or second semester. I just do not want a poor AP exam score to affect my chances of transferring into the AEM program. </p>
<p>So, will my AP scores, particularly my Microecon score, have any effect on my transfer into AEM?</p>
<p>If you want to be an econ major you should stay in CAS, declare your major as economics, and minor in AEM. You can minor in a finance concentration, even though you will still be in CAS. They likely wont look at your AP scores, but AEM is strictly business, and there is little econ unless you specialize in applied economics or international trade (which still only have basic non calculus based econ). If you want to do mathematics based economics, and have a full economics degree stay in CAS, you can still take the finance courses and get an AEM minor. </p>
<p>You cannot do an internal transfer until after your first semester, and they will look at your first semester grades. Furthermore, if you try to switch to AEM you will probably have to take a few semesters of AEM classes before you can transfer into the major. The process to switch colleges can be a pain from what I have heard.</p>
<p>There is a big difference between economics vs business major and you can still be a hard econ major with finance, but your courses will be on economic theory not business theory. So, can you clarify, do you want econ or AEM? They are very different. You have to decide if you want to major in econ with a specialty in finance (aem minor) or if you want to major in business (be a full AEM major).</p>
<p>To clarify, I want to focus more on business theory than economic theory. After discussing with various people, I feel more fit to go in the business direction rather than the economics direction. Hence, I am trying to prepare myself properly in order to maximize my educational success at Cornell by transferring into AEM. </p>
<p>At the moment, I am mainly concerned about the whole transfer process which leads to my worries about AP test scores. </p>
<p>Sorry for not making that clear in my previous post :]</p>
<p>My friend who switched from CALS Bio to Arts had to go into the internal transfer division or one semester and then get good marks on courses in CAS before being allowed to transfer and joining CAS as an undecided. </p>
<p>You may be able to do a direct transfer into AEM, but you must first demonstrate that you are performing well in AEM classes. Otherwise you will likely have to do internal transfer division while you take the AEM classes and then will be admitted into CALS. </p>
<p>My only worry is that you will have to first get into CALS since you will have taken few AEM classes your first semester, then get into AEM. Since you have to apply to majors in CALS you may face this issue. You might get into CALS as interdisciplinary studies (their undecided), and then have to apply to get into the AEM after taking classes. Someone else may have more insight, but you will be able to do so as long as you get good grades in CALS and AEM classes. Load up your schedule with those classes and talk to the internal transfer division when you get there.</p>
<p>I know they have an AEM minor for engineers… I always thought CAS could get an AEM minor. If not, perhaps they will change it in the next year or two if there is interest. You may be able to petition to minor.</p>
<p>^^^ From what people have told me its actually a very common thing for people to want to minor in AEM, and the unofficial thing is actually very common.</p>
<p>if you want to transfer to AEM you’re gonna need a high GPA (i know people with 3.8 who didn’t get it) they say the minimum is 2.75 but thats ********. </p>
<p>You CANNOT minor in AEM unless you are in CALS (or SOME Engineering degrees) you CANNOT MINOR IN AEM IF YOU ARE IN ARTS- DON"T THINK THEY ARE GONNA CHANGE THIS. THEY ARE NOT CHANGING IT IT IS HOW IT IS.</p>
<p>I suggest that your first semester you take intro to micro (with evans) its hard… REALLY hard actually (or you can take it with Abowd) - you NEED TO DO REALLY well in this. take your FWS and maybe macro as well. you won’t be able to get into intro AEM courses 1st semester like AEM 1200 but make sure to take them second semester. </p>
<p>when you get to campus sometime first semester go to Day Hall and go to the ITD office and speak to Neoma… she will tell you to stay in your major for a year (for AEM you HAVE TO)… make sure you also take Calc as a freshman … basically try and mirror what AEM frosh take… ask her for advice on what classes to take you can go online and see the internal transfer stuff for AEM.</p>
<p>its hard to transfer but if you have a SOLID GPA- i.e. above a 3.5 and INTERVIEW well you should be fine.</p>
<p>being in CAS (econ) and taking courses in AEM or anywhere else outside of CAS is difficult…</p>
<p>i would suggest doing what ije28 says…but if this doesnt work out…consider transferring to HOTEL or ILR to do more business oriented things…</p>
<p>being in CAS you will mostly take courses in economic theory and not applied business stuff such as (accounting, finance, management, hr, ob, etc) </p>
<p>this does not mean that ECON majors do not go on to work in business…</p>
<p>a lot of AEM classes are cross-listed as ECON classes, so it’s actually not that hard for econ majors to take AEM courses (although it can be said that more slots are listed under “AEM” than under “ECON”)</p>
<p>you can always just major in ECON and take classes in AEM!</p>