<p>^true, in the first round interviews you are competing against your peers at Cornell. however, i can say from personal experience that AEM majors do very well in recruiting. also, being an AEM major gives you a pretty good GPA easily and we’re starting AEM-exclusive events with employers or workshops that’ll hopefully give Dyson students some edge / soft skills.</p>
<p>but yes, in the end, the major itself doesn’t really matter too much as long as you’re proactive. everyone should apply for what they’re interested in the most.</p>
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<p>Just because they recruit here doesn’t mean that the recruitment at both AEM and Wharton are the same. Also, Wharton’s rep with consulting firms exceeds AEM’s.</p>
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<p>What you consider “math-based” is subjective as others have pointed out, but if you mean the rigor of mathematics that you need to know for courses, then yes, Wharton has courses that are quite math-based as they require a strong knowledge of real analysis/measure theory/stochastic calculus, whereas most AEM classes dealing with that material require only introductory calculus and a background probability course. And unsurprisingly, they deal with the material in less rigor as the students taking the course don’t have proper background/machinery to understand the full depth of the material.</p>
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<p>Yeah I agree a lot with this, and also there’s a lot of students that think it’s * required * to go to information sessions, network, etc. to get an interview, but it really isn’t. As long as you know a good amount about what you want to do, do well in college, and talk to alums whenever you have any questions, that’s more than enough to get interviews.</p>
<p>I have 0 interest in consulting. I have friends in Wharton and we have the same employers visiting us, it’s a healthy balance. In fact me and one of them will be working alongside each other in the same internship this summer. You sound like a bitter Wharton-reject WongTong.</p>
<p>^I never actually applied to Wharton, but I do have quite a bit of friends that go there and am close with them. I have nothing to be bitter about, actually. Recruiting season is going much better than I had hoped for, so I didn’t mean to take any shots at either university, just stating the facts. </p>
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<p>Good for you. I was stating that in general, not towards what you were or were not interested in.</p>