<p>Hello ya'll, I've been accepted to both Emory and Bowdoin, schools that are my top choices. Background: White, Jewish, from Connecticut, soccer player</p>
<p>Anyways, I'm trying to make my decisions, but from others and on CC I've heard shady things about the fields I'm interested in at emory - namely, math, physics, CS, econ. Comparative bowdoin programs are very strong, and i'm debating doing a 3-2 or 4-2 in engineering. Any enlightenment on the above emory departments would be helpful.</p>
<p>Bowdoin seems like it’s lacking a few “core” CS classes as well. If you do decide to major in math at Bowdoin, you’d probably run out of courses by the time you’re a second semester junior, assuming you’re a year or two ahead in math right now. </p>
<p>Emory itself is not particularly strong in any of the fields you’re interested in, but it does offer adequate numbers of courses in each of those fields. If you decide to do the 3-2 program, you’ll need up to linear algebra. At Emory, all of the required 3-2 math classes are offered every semester, check if that’s the case at Bowdoin. Btw, the econ department isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just not up to par with some of Emory’s other programs. You can still receive a fine econ education, particularly if you couple it with math up to the differential equations level (seems the minimum for succeeding in a top econ grad program). </p>
<p>I’m curious to know how you came down to a choice of either Emory or Bowdoin when you knew you were interested in highly quantitative fields.</p>