<p>Well if you're not into the hard sciences (which is what most of my CAS friends are - hence the lower GPAs I know of), then you could pull of a 3.75, but it would be challenging.</p>
<p>Maybe Anbu just hangs out with geniuses, cause I know a lot of CASers and the majority in the sciences are actually sub-3.0.</p>
<p>....or maybe I just hang out with idiots. Nah...that can't be it.</p>
<p>Yeah I have several Cornell friends and they say it's pretty hard. I have a friend who's Architecture/Pre-Med and he lives in his studio by day and studies orgo by night lol. But I'm guessing Liberal Arts in CAS wouldn't be nearly as hard. I guess I'll apply and see what happens...if I get in, then I'll have a tough decision to make, if not, NYU is not a terrible place to be and i'm doing well here. thanks btw.</p>
<p>DarkIce, what specific college did you attend at Cornell?</p>
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<p>hah...I hear ya. Most of my friends had been on academic probation at one point or another. I also had many friends who were absolute geniuses. </p>
<p>My CAS friend graduated with a final GPA of 2.5....and she was an anthropology major. She was also one of the laziest people I've ever met in my life...haha.</p>
<p>Can you comment on the difficulty of CHE? Specifically nutrition courses?</p>
<p>I wasn't a HumEc student but I took NS 115 (the intro nutrition course), NS 345 (physicochemical aspects of food), NS 331 (physiological and biochemical basis of human nutrition) and NS 441 (nutrition and disease).</p>
<p>NS 115 wasn't bad....just a lot of information and a lot of work. Definitely enjoyed the class.</p>
<p>NS 345 was easy...enough said.</p>
<p>NS 331 was a pain in my butt (many of my friends who also took the course agree with me). There is a lot of information to learn and the lectures weren't always helpful. The exams very tricky. However....the material was fascinating and that's what helped me stay in the game.</p>
<p>NS 441 was probably one of the best courses I took at Cornell. The professor was awesome and everything I learned was fascinating. The material presented was a culmination of all you learn in your other NS courses. You are allowed to have a partner for all courses assignments...yes, even the take home final exam.</p>
<p>DO I SEE TAKE HOME FINAL?! must add that class! </p>
<p>aw man i just checked and 441 has too many prereqs =( </p>
<p>NS 115 was great!! david levitsky is a very good teacher!! the dood sings and cooks in class. he also ran around the lecture hall once to demonstrate some energy thing, (forgot what it was haha), note that the class is in kennedy hall, wihch is VERY easy to fall asleep in.
I want to take NS 315, Obesity and something with david levitsky, dont know how that will go</p>
<p>NS 122 was TERRIBLE!! I hated this class. the teacher was so BORING, she talked on and on in the same voice without stopping. i took notes for about 3 lectures and didn't bother and just slept away. her exams are time consuming because it invovles a LOT of memorization (including specifics like how many grams of blah blah you need) all her exams have essay as well which is hard. </p>
<p>thats all i took =D, no where close to finishing my NS concentration -.-</p>
<p>Do you know any math majors? Any general things you've heard/noticed about math at Cornell, that you wouldn't see on the website?</p>
<p>math is great here! id say its medium difficulty. i heard linear algebra is easy grade wise. calculus isn't bad. stats is easy. multi and diff are slightly harder. the rest im not sure!</p>
<p>I'm in CALS.</p>
<p>I second AnbuItachi on NS1220 - ew...horrible.</p>
<p>I took linear algebra and differential equations. I didn't like the fact they let you have cheat sheets for the tests for linear algebra. Most people just tried to cram as many formulas as possible onto the cheat sheet and I don't think they learned very much. I also lost a point on a test (the only point I lost on the whole test) because they actually checked my scratch paper and couldn't determine how I arrived at my answer so they took off a point :0/ If I had known they would read through my scratch paper, I would've written a little neater. Only at Cornell can you get all the answers right and still not get 100.</p>
<p>The math is extremely varied in terms of difficulty.</p>
<p>The same material in classes in two different colleges (CAS and ENG) might be more or less difficult. The same class with different professors might be drastically different in terms of difficulty. And the same course taken in different semesters (Fall vs. Spring) might be drastically different in terms of difficulty.</p>
<p>Ex. Lin Alg in CAS is said to be easy, said to be hard in ENG
Ex. Math 1920 is said to be easy in the fall, and hard in the spring</p>
<p>How are the lab works at Cornell? Like Bio Lab, Organic chem lab, and physics lab?</p>
<p>I really enjoyed the orgo lab. It was a lot of work for 2 credits...but the prof was fun (although I understand he's no longer there). The worst part was the course prelim....15 pages long, chock-full of questions (multiple choice, short answer, calculations)...a lot of people didn't finish. </p>
<p>However...now that there is a new prof teaching the course, I would imagine that it's different from my time.</p>
<p>I think the differences in the engineering math classes between semesters isn't that the class itself is harder, but the median grades are just different. I think it might have something to do with about half the incoming freshman class starts off "ahead" in 192 with AP credit and such rather than 191. so they might have a better understanding and more experience with math to begin with resulting in higher median grades. This trend continues as that cohort goes through the engineering sequence. </p>
<p>Just my hypothesis and experience from doing the math sequence out of the normal order.</p>
<p>Soo, I've heard that the average gpa for engineering students is about 3.2~ish at graduation, while the freshman average gpa is as low as 2.7 ? I applied to CoE, and i have an intended biological/environmental engineering major and i have not decided whether i want to go into engineering or medicine as a career. Based on what i've heard/read, med schools seem to stress gpa and the mcat, and care less about one's undergraduate major. With this being said, is it unwise to major in engineering because i'd be taking the risk of a significantly lower gpa... potentially putting me at a disadvantage if i do choose to attend med school? will med schools consider the [low] average gpa of the engineering college itself or will they simply compare my gpa as it is?</p>
<p>If you are honestly committed to going to med school, you will get a high GPA regardless of what it costs to you.</p>
<p>Besides, it's not terribly hard to get a 3.5+ even freshmen year with hard work.</p>