<p>What are the "hardest" majors in CAS? I know things like this can be subjective and will be varied throughout the responses. Give the top three or five hardest majors in your opinion and a brief reason. Ex. History is extremely difficult due to the amount of writing. Thanks and GO!</p>
<p>I’ve heard Psychology is a killer :P</p>
<p>it just depends on what courses and professors you take…</p>
<p>History is most certainly not most difficult haha</p>
<p>the sciences are the hardest…i know that.</p>
<p>hahaha psychology hahaha</p>
<p>I just used history as an example lol So by sciences does that encompass biology, chemistry, and physics? Which one is the hardest? Ohhh! I have another question. Are certain concentrations in the bio major easier than others? </p>
<p>I take it psychology is not a hard major?</p>
<p>physics is pretty hard… although that goes without saying.</p>
<p>This is why I am not a math major:
<a href=“http://www.math.cornell.edu/~putnam/freshman_prize/freshman_prize_09.pdf[/url]”>http://www.math.cornell.edu/~putnam/freshman_prize/freshman_prize_09.pdf</a></p>
<p>People doing pre-med (though not a major) have a tough workload. They are usually under a lot of academic pressure because they have to maintain good GPAs to get into medical school.</p>
<p>Any of the hard or life sciences, as well as computer science, will be difficult at any school. </p>
<p>I also have a lot of respect for majors in the humanities, in particular creative/thoughtful ones like philosophy, English, music, visual/performing arts, etc. Those are hard in their own way.</p>
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<li>Physics - definitely heaviest workload, endless problem sets, long hours in lab, conceptual difficulty in learning topics </li>
<li>Chemistry - similar to physics workload</li>
<li>Music - intense workload for the serious students, lots of sheet-music analysis, lots of hours in studio, etc.</li>
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<p>What about social sciences like Gov and Econ?</p>
<p>I’m sort of considering double-majoring in psych and English (don’t really have a career path in mind, these are just some of my interests right now)…given what’s been said about psych here, I’m guessing that wouldn’t be too difficult? lol</p>
<p>^the requirement for the psych major is 40 cred of psych. considering that means you could have like 80+ other elective credits, it’s not that bad. haha</p>
<p>Wow, really? I thought that the psych requirements looked pretty lax, but I didn’t know they left that much room for other electives lol. Do a lot of psych people double-major as a result? I’m more interested in social psychology than in the more scientific subdivisions.</p>
<p>Econ is a joke.</p>
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<p>While I wouldn’t argue the conceptual difficulty portion, I highly doubt that physics/chemistry have heavier workloads than Computer Science. </p>
<p>Ever spent two straight days (That’s 48 hours of non-stop work) debugging a project (not even writing the program, just debugging), and not finishing? And that’s just spent on 20% of the project (Don’t get me started on the other 80%)? The vast majority of Physics majors I know (on the honors track) just have a study party right before a problem set is due.</p>
<p>How many coding assignments do CS majors typically get every semester?</p>
<p>Depends on how many CS classes you take. </p>
<p>And depends on the CS class. Some CS classes are heavy on theory (and thus heavy on problem sets), other are more application-based so have a lot of projects. </p>
<p>Personally, last semester I spent about 15-20 hours a week coding, and I only took 2 CS classes.</p>
<p>I was also told that Biology at Cornell was really difficult. Is it harshly curved? I could not fathom all that work on Computer Science. Yikes! So are there any hard Humanities?</p>
<p>@countryangel - yeah, there is definitely lots of room for double majoring. im doing bio and psych double, which is possible without going over 120 credits. so psych is nice to do as a double haha.</p>
<p>@helvetica - yeah the curve in bio (at least intro bio) is kind of harsh. but the workload isnt that bad and the material isnt that complicated though.</p>
<p>So psych is a good adjunct major. What are some other majors that ppl double with bio? Do many ppl double major with a science & and non science??</p>
<p>Cool, thanks tmk39!</p>