<p>Are there any econ majors who could tell me how difficult they found the courses and workload to be compared with some other majors? Are class sizes small? Does it prepare you well for an MBA? Also is there anyone who applied to med school as an econ major? I dont really want to major in bio and I thought I might keep my options open so I could go into business if I dont get into med school or it doesn't work out for some reason, but Im not sure it would help me get in in the first place. Any thoughts?? Thanks</p>
<p>Are you a Class of 2014 Econ major? If so, you’ve got company here. 
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<p>Anyway, economics classes, at least most of the ones you’ll be taking your first two years will be large and lecture-style. There have been people who’ve applied to med school from pretty much any major you can think of. You could always do Economics and take pre-med classes, but one caveat: the economics major at Cornell is not a pre-business concentration. They state that clearly on the departmental website. And I’m curious, if you’re already objectionable to the idea of a biology major, what makes you so certain you’re up for med school?</p>
<p>srrinath is right about the nature of the econ major at Cornell. you could do AEM in CALS, which is the business education at Cornell, and it’d be easy to be premed because bio courses fulfill CALS-wide science requirements and also count as CALS credit.</p>
<p>edit to add: AEM is Applied Economics and Management, here: <a href=“http://aem.cornell.edu/[/url]”>http://aem.cornell.edu/</a></p>
<p>but econ majors go into business or go for an MBA right? what else would you really use it for? I was accepted into CAS so I would have to transfer colleges to get into AEM</p>
<p>and a lot of people ask me why I want to be a doctor if I don’t just love biology haha! obviously I need to know biology but actually practicing medicine will be hands on and I think I’ll like it more then, plus I’m not sure I want four years of biology classes knowing I have years of med school ahead anyway :)</p>
<p>You could use it for…I dunno…economic analysis?</p>
<p>i wonder if knowing the Difference Between Allopathic and Osteopathic Medicine would be relevant to the OP.</p>
<p>Ughhh. Let me get this straight, you want to do economics when you don’t even know what economics is (or really don’t give a **** about the subject, I can’t tell), and you want to be a doctor when you hate biology. </p>
<p>Why not pick something you will actually enjoy? This fascination with “I’ll study this because I know in my heart 15 years later I will enjoy practicing it” is getting really old.</p>
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<p>Wow, you’re myopic. Economics majors do sometimes go into business, but many more study economics in order to gain an appreciation of economic issues and the modes of analysis that will help them develop an informed opinion which will help them regardless of the career path they choose. I recommend you actually try to understand a subject before deciding to pursue it just because you think business would be a good backup plan to make you rich. </p>
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<p>There’s unjustified arrogance in the way you dismiss that question. It’s a little hard to presume that you know what you’re talking about when you say you’ll enjoy practicing medicine but can’t bring yourself to like the scientific basis upon which medicine relies. And it’s a terrible excuse to say that because you have years of med school, four additional years of biology classes (which will strengthen your fundamentals) will be a bother. Newsflash: you have a lifetime of medicine before you, it’s time you start thinking seriously about whether it’s what you really want.</p>
<p>I don’t think the responses here need to be so harsh! someone who’s 16 or 17 is likely not completely clear about career goals, and certainly doesn’t need to know exactly how to achieve them. I’m almost halfway done with college and I’m still not sure what I want to do next, not to mention what kind of career(s) I hope to have later in life! it’s not prudent to be totally flippant about the future, but being set on a certain prescribed path isn’t for everyone.</p>
<p>I do think, OP, that it would be risky undertaking a major just so that if your primary plan didn’t work out, you’d have something to fall back on. if you decide to be premed, you’ll be taking enough biology that you will either grow to love it or you won’t be able to stand it. since you’re in CAS, perhaps you should take the necessary pre-med courses, some econ courses, and see what you think of both types of study before you make any more binding decisions. even if you decided that neither of them was for you and you wanted to study linguistics, you’d have plenty of time to adjust.</p>
<p>wow. sorry if my posts made me sound arrogant and stupid, but I am asking a question for a reason: I need more information. And I think that there is a huge difference between sitting in a biology class and actually working in a hospital with patients. I’ve volunteered and worked in a hospital for a few years in different areas and specialties, so I am not just wildly guessing that I will like a career because I’ll become rich. I do like biology but I want to explore some different things because I will get to do that for the rest of my life :)</p>
<p>I’ve always wanted to be a doctor but I know how hard it is to get into med school and I visited my cousin (who works for a financial firm) this weekend and I found what she did intriguing and thought that I would find out more about it and what other options I would have if I can’t get into med school or end up changing my mind in the next couple of years.</p>
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<p>We did give you the information. Don’t major in it until you actually know what it entails. Majoring in it just as a backup plan for medical school is stupid and frankly makes life worse for people who actually do enjoy economics for what it is.</p>
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<p>Congratulations for enjoying working in a hospital. This means you’d like nursing, not that you’d like being a doctor. Seriously, fully a quarter of the freshman in Cornell want to go to medical school because, on some level, they like helping patients. Guess how many actually end up applying senior year?</p>
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<p>+1. Hilarious.</p>
<p>^how is that a joke? it seems like reasonable advice to me. maybe the OP should look into nursing or some other field where you can directly help people like that. Penn’s the place to go for nursing, though.</p>
<p>I didn’t say it was a joke.</p>
<p>for the OP…a DO (osteopathy) might be a better fit?</p>