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<p>Taking courses at AEM and even transferring into AEM is not difficult, should you so desire. Definitely not competitive like admission to Haas.</p>
<p>btw: props to p-girl for the well needed head-slap to the OP. But not sure attitude adjustment is in his/her vocabulary.</p>
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<p>I suspect that the OP meant to say, albeit perhaps confusingly, is that “I was rejected from every Ivy except Cornell - and I was also rejected from - Duke and Northwestern”. </p>
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<p>While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, the irony is that political science knowledge is arguably just as valuable as economics or business knowledge within the modern-day investment banking industry. Let’s face it - if that industry was actually subject to pure economic and business forces, then practically every major Ibanking participant would have defaulted during the last few years. They survived only because of unprecedented worldwide political intervention. Interesting future academic research might surely be conducted not on how investment banks behave as economic or business institutions but rather as political institutions.</p>
<p>indeed, but I would argue that Philosophy is more important than PoliSci. :D</p>
<p>@Sakky: Yeah I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately, succeeding in I-banking vs. actually getting an I-banking job in the first place are two different things. As a political science major myself, I’ve encountered so many problems with my major in considering finance/business related fields (that’s why I said that). </p>
<p>To succeed in the field, econ/biz knowledge isn’t everything - there are lots of vital skills that the other social sciences inculcates in you. But in terms of /getting/ an I-banking job - well econ/biz is the way to go, I guess.</p>
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I should probably mention that I am a humanities person and am absolutely horrid at math. That’s why I don’t think I can do Economics.</p>
<p>^There isn’t really that much math in biz here…more of the intended -haas people I know here avoid math like the plague, and I don’t think there’s much in undergrad econ at cal (well…not as much as I think there should be :P). If you can get through single variable (calc BC), you’re all set. There are models and graphs and that stuff though, but not what I’d call actual “math”</p>
<p>I go cal, but just want to say, I’ve heard the area around Cornell is beautiful. Just saying :P</p>
<p>Even Calculus BC topics are very difficult for me. I’m not even in BC; I’m in AB, and it’s very difficult for me even then. I’m sure if I practiced enough, I would get it… But it’s a major weakness.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest and say for Haas, you really need NO math ability. You’d be taking a horridly easy calculus class meant for people who are weak at calculus, so I think you’d be fine. Stats might pose a problem, but by no means any sort of roadblock. If you’re not quantitative and you want a taste of how cutthroat and unreasonable the business world is (albeit exaggerated in the unnecessary competition), Haas is for you.</p>
<p>With that said, if I was more comfortable with leaving California (and mainly its weather) and realized that the intellectual air is sort of missing for me here at Berkeley, I’d take Cornell in a heartbeat.</p>
<p>Don’t go head East just for Cornell when you have a sweet acceptance letter from Berkeley. If this was Wharton or Harvard or MIT, then yes. But Cornell isn’t better than Berkeley. At best, it is just as good.</p>
<p>How are overcrowding issues at Berkely? Is it true that a lot of the classes are taught by TAs?</p>
<p>Also, is Haas better than Cornell AEM?</p>
<p>You have your big 500 person lectures, and smaller <30 classes as well. It’s not really that bad - and if it bothers you, you can sit in the front. I haven’t had any courses “taught” by TAs, but they do a lot of the teaching in section if your professor isn’t that great - and if you get a good one, they are much better than the prof haha.</p>
<p>I’m biased towards Haas since I know more about it, but I’ve heard Cornell has been better ranking-wise recently? idk</p>