<p>How many courses are considered as a light/mid/high courseload? (freshman)</p>
<p>How many credits make a major, and how many credits will one read each year?</p>
<p>What's the difference between double/triple majoring and dual program?</p>
<p>How many credits does a full bachelor degree accumulate?</p>
<p>Will there be a "shopping" period at Cornell for chosing courses?</p>
<p>Thanks for answering my questions :)</p>
<p>depends on major. light is ~12-15, mid 16-19, high 20+. though for some majors 20 might be mid and others 18/19 might be high. depends on what class you plan to take.</p>
<p>majors have different # of credits. so once again depends on major. </p>
<p>cornell require at least 120 credits to graduate, with different breakups for each college. </p>
<p>beginning of semester is for add/drop. it goes all the way into the semester for a few weeks.</p>
<p>Thanks. Now there are two questions left unanswered and maybe someone out there could shed some light into the matter.</p>
<p>How many courses are considered as a light/mid/high courseload? (freshman)</p>
<p>What’s the difference between double/triple majoring and dual program?</p>
<p>light would be 12-13, mid would be 15-16, high would be 18+ for a freshmen first semester (this is relative, it all depends ultimately on major)</p>
<p>double/triple majoring means you get a Bachelor’s Degree that has multiple majors on it within the same college in Cornell. This can most of the time be completed in the regular 4 years as long as you plan ahead (especially in Arts and Sciences).</p>
<p>A dual degree program is a special intercollege program between College of Arts, College of Architecture Art and Planning and College of Engineering. It awards two degrees-- a B.A. from College of Arts, B.S. from Engineering, B.S. in Urban Regional Studies/B.S. in History of Architecture/B.F.A. from Art Architecture and Planning. One is from your home college, and another is from one of the other colleges. It is much more difficult to complete because each college has its own separate graduation requirements, all of which you must fulfill. This means it is basically impossible to complete in 4 years without significant AP credits and sacrificing all of your summers to coursework (unless the two degrees are pretty complementary, I.E. Engineering Physics and Arts and Sciences Math).</p>
<p>thank you both very much for answering my questions!</p>
<p>so a dual degree program would require 120*2 = 240 credits?</p>
<p>no a dual degree doesnt require 240. It only requires 120 credits. Just you have to fufill all of the individual degree reqs</p>