Cornell economics

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<p>Hearing a lot of things about economics at Cornell; it's not as strong as UCB, it's less quantiative, it's less artsy, professors are not of as high a quality, wall street are not interested in cornell graduates...</p>

<p>How much of this is true. I honestly could not give two ****s about professor reputation or the appeal to wall street, nor do I care about how it ranks in comparison to UCB. But I did want a fairly advanced, quantiative course. I've done two years of A Level (13 years of schooling -.- ) and a lot of the material I've covered is above AP Level. I'm kind of sick of 'artsy', essay writing economics and was looking forward to getting stuck into the hard core, calculus, quantitative, mathematical side of it. </p>

<p>I did my research and the module at Cornell appeal to me, there was a range of quantitative courses, development economics and economic history classes and the faculty seemed good. But I'm now hearing otherwise and hearing that the material at Cornell is not as advanced as it could be. </p>

<p>Just wanted someones take on this.</p>

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<p>Cornell Economics can be as quantitative as you want to make it. Cornell allows you to complete the major with only Calc I, but you are limited as to what courses you can take if that’s your math background. </p>

<p>And no matter what, it’s still Economics. There are very few essays and you are doing a lot of math, even if it’s only at the Calc I level in the less quantitative courses. If you really want to hone your quantitative skills, double major in math (I’d recommend it if you are going for your PhD).</p>