<p>How does this undergraduate major system work?
Please answer as many questions as possible -- it wasn't too clear on their website.</p>
<p>1) Does intended major on application affect application in any way?
2) When is major declared? Does it vary from SEAS to CC?
3) How many majors need an application at time of declaration? Eg. I think financial engineering at SEAS needs application at end of sophomore year. Do you have to apply to each major? If so, what happens if you get rejected?
4) At CC, how do you major in Economics-Operations Research?
It is easy at stating it on a paper, or do you have to be selected, or what?</p>
<p>Thank you so much!
Please rip it apart and explain this to me :)</p>
<p>1) They say it doesn’t, but I think it probably does
a) it helps if you show interest and demonstrate ability
b) it probably helps if you pick a less represented major</p>
<p>bottom line though, tell them what you truly want to study and why you want to do it at columbia, this should show a passion and you’ll be able to sell your case to them</p>
<p>2) seas is fall soph year, CC is spring soph year. but CC students change majors until about winter of Junior year and SEAS students change majors until about summer before junior year.</p>
<p>3) if you get rejected from FE you do OR or EMS or IE or applied math or comp sci or whatever you feel like. I’m not sure if there are other application only majors, comparative lit and society might be app only, not sure.</p>
<p>4) no “getting in” same as other normal majors</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I like CC’s freedom, and Economics-Operations Research seems similar to FE.</p>
<p>So if I’m accepted to CC, I’m guaranteed to be able to major in the Economics-Operations Research right? No applications or limit caps on econ. majors?
Anyway to find out majors with applications? Columbia website is frustratingly confusing …</p>
<p>There’s a new major that was just announced called Financial Economics which, in addition to having the same acronym as FE, is probably your best bet if you’re looking at finance out of under.</p>
<p>FYI Columbia will discontinue the Economics-Operations Research major, however, as karot noted, the Financial Economics major sounds like a viable, if not superior, alternative with more flexibility. In addition, you even get to take courses at the business school that count towards your major! Check out the economics majors’ site. This should help: [Economics</a> | Columbia College](<a href=“Columbia College Bulletin < Columbia College | Columbia University”>Columbia College Bulletin < Columbia College | Columbia University)</p>
<p>I see, thank you! Just confirming, there are no prerequisite courses or applications right?
Fall soph year I can just declare Financial-Econ and start working towards the requirements?</p>
<p>now we know what happened to econ-or, looks like financial economics seems to be replacing the econ-or major that is now defunct. with some slightly different classes for sure, but in the end it is pretty clearly a marketing tool, and a good one at that. financial economics sounds far more straight forward than econ-or.</p>
<p>i know you’re just asking questions here, but in this case no one here really can know the mechanics of the major as no one has ever taken it. so the only thing that we can do is what you can do, which is look at the relevant information could have been found by looking on the website. [Columbia</a> University - Economics](<a href=“Columbia | Economics |”>Columbia | Economics |). one thing to note is that there ARE prerequisite courses for the major before you can take electives within the major, this is standard for the economics major at columbia (“If a student takes an economics elective without having completed all of the prerequisites, then that course will not count towards the major.”)</p>
<p>however, you would not need to make an application, you’d just have to declare the major.</p>