<p>ILR school appears to be more specialized while CAS allows me to explore further disciplines. Is there anybody from either of these schools that would care to share their opinion?</p>
<p>If you want to do economics at cornell do AEM (Applied Economics and Management). It is in the CALS school. It is the most prestigious for economics at Cornell.</p>
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AEM is applied Econ… Not pure Econ.</p>
<p>If you like liberal arts Econ, then CAS. Business-- AEM. Labor law, etc.-- ILR. ILR can also be used as a business degree.</p>
<p>*If you want to do economics at cornell do AEM (Applied Economics and Management). It is in the CALS school. It is the most prestigious for economics at Cornell. *</p>
<p>No way. If you want to do economics, avoid AEM like the plague. It’s primarily a business program and lacks some deeper economics courses.</p>
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What did you wind up with in Troshkin’s class?</p>
<p>I got an A- after thinking I had a pretty good shot at an A. I don’t really mind since I enjoyed the class and got a lot out of it.</p>
<p>Where do you ppl come from…? Okay. Why can’t econs just stick in econ programs? What would possess you to believe ILR relates in anyway to what you want to study? Yeah, it’s specialized to make you a wannabe pre-law student or destined for HR.</p>
<p>Islander, AEM was never meant to be an econ program. But we can satisfy core classes taking CAS econ courses and take more at CAS with free electives. Hence the “applied economics” part of our program name. It’s a business program, but a business program you can do a lot with.</p>