<p>Is it possible to double major within the engineering school and still have a life? I was thinking about doubling up on Computer science and operations research...would this be an excessive workload or is it manageable?</p>
<p>if you have a lot of ap credit its doable, otherwise its pretty difficult.</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Engineering : Computer Science](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/engineering-handbook/2008/major-cs.cfm]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/engineering-handbook/2008/major-cs.cfm)</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Engineering : Operations Research and Engineering](<a href=“http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/engineering-handbook/2008/major-ore.cfm]Cornell”>http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/student-services/academic-advising/engineering-handbook/2008/major-ore.cfm)</p>
<p>here are the requirements for both</p>
<p>Well, how does CS and OR compare to say, Chem and OR or Mech and OR? Which one would have the most overlap with CS? Thanks for the response btw.</p>
<p>There is honestly no point in fully double majoring.</p>
<p>You can take as many of the classes in your “second major” as you want without penalty.</p>
<p>There have to be SOME classes you would rather not take, don’t really interest you, seem redundant.
Just take the courses you want to, and don’t worry about having two majors listed on your diploma.</p>
<p>In terms of content OR has the most overlap with cs of any two engineering major besides ECE, since many OR classes will use programming to model things, however in terms of actual required classes their isn’t a ton of overlap. cs 2110 is a requirement for both, you’ll be able to count the same class for some of the elective requirements for both. </p>
<p>In order to get the ORIE major you would need to take about 10-11 ORIE classes, however 3-5 of these could fulfill some of the cs requirements if you plan things out correctly and these would have to be filled using something anyway so its only like an extra 5-7 courses on top of what it would take to just get the cs major.</p>
<p>I may be off by a few, this is just from quickly skimming the checklists I posted above</p>
<p>No .</p>