<p>D is interested in both with thoughts of going to med school. Can anyone give any info on the enviro classes and the quality? Is it possible to double major in both areas? or major/ minor?</p>
<p>study abroad is also very important for her, she is flexible as to where and in what area of study.</p>
<p>she is currently considering UVA and Cornell, any thoughts or comparisons would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p>Of course. It’s also possible for her to design her own major if your daughter for some reason found a cross-disciplinary area of interest (but not Environmental Economics, since that is actually a degree area that exists at UVA, I believe).</p>
<p>And OMG, EVSC 350 (weather and atmosphere) is rape. Or at least EVSC 350L. It’s like 1 credit but it really should be worth 4. Or 6. Or 11. Cuz I spend half my weekend on that 1-credit class. I don’t know if this is characteristic of environmental science in general around the world, but unlike general calculus-based physics, where every formula and relation is derived and built up from each other, you have to plug in variables into weird atmospheric physics empirical differential equations that you type up manually on excel and that come out of nowhere.</p>
<p>Apparently it’s more theoretical in higher-level EVSC courses, which seems weird to me (the foundational ideas and derivations for atmospheric physics should come first). </p>
<p>I don’t know about reputation first-hand, but the UVA EVSC department seems very well-equipped, and they have plenty of interesting publications you can find on Google Scholar. The EVSC department is housed in Clark Hall (most famous for its mural room painted with a classical scene full of naked people), with some labs occurring in Kerchoff, so if you visit that’s an area your daughter should like to check out (and the new Clark Hall extension built behind). And UVA’s EVSC department has plenty of allies around the world; we have a lab field trip to the [Pace</a> Estate](<a href=“http://people.virginia.edu/~jf6s/pace/pace.html]Pace”>http://people.virginia.edu/~jf6s/pace/pace.html) sometime this April, but lab assignment data gets extracted from the pretty areas that the UVA EVSC department has set up shop: Sahara, Arctic Circle, Kwajalein…</p>
<p>So much props to the EVSC department – my gf (also pre-med) is doing honors chem sequence (80 series) with the intention of majoring in physical chemistry and some field of environmental science. </p>
<p>I haven’t taken any econ classes yet though I mean to, but with all the admirative fuss over McIntire and Prof. Elzinga, I also expect that the econ department is excellent. </p>
<p>UVA has several study-abroad programs and I keep hearing so much about them that I’ve lost track.</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>