<p>How hard is it to get admitted for Emory's econ-math joint major. Is it just as hard as Goizueta? Is the major rigorous?
PLEASe help</p>
<p>@cnikroo :This is not worth essentially screaming for help. Also, I thought I just told you that we don’t admit by major in ECAS (getting into ECAS is hard, but clearly your chances are likely at least a little above the admit rate if you are in the middle-50 and have solid EC’s. However, there are certainly no promises whatsoever). And econ-math is certainly going to more rigorous (is rigor a problem or something? If so, please don’t come to Emory for various reasons. One being the weakening/further wimpening of our student body) than a regular econ. major, though I must say econ is nowhere near as tough (content/math wise) as it should be (the only thing making it tougher than in the past is the fact that the major courses are now mostly graded on the b-school core class distribution). However, honestly, econ-math is totally doable. In fact, I would recommend that you pick up a second major with it. Many people doing that joint major double major in another discipline . Do that and CS or something(maybe QSS? Just something that shows you how to use the quantitative skills you learn from math to do research or analyze or something that builds programming and other computational skills) or flat out do Math and Econ double instead of joint. It just looks like Econ-math joint major is for those hardcore pre-meds and pre-laws who just want some decent/back-up double major on the side. I don’t know many people who do it in isolation.</p>
<p>In order to get into a top grad school I need to maintain AT LEAST 3.5+ GPA @bernie12
Is it possible Double major with business?</p>
<p>Think of it this way. Top graduate schools want high GPAs because those students have excelled enough to deserve to attend.</p>
<p>If you can’t get a high GPA, then (In a lot of people’s minds. And I don’t blame them.) you don’t deserve to go to a top graduate school.</p>
<p>Also. If everyone got a 3.5 GPA (and that was the only requirement), then the top schools would be saturated.</p>
<p>So, what I’m trying to say is:
- Don’t worry about GPA. Getting a high GPA is not easy (but I’d say a 3.5 is easy), but that’s not your goal. Your goal is the ** highest GPA you personally can achieve, which could be a 3.6 or even a 3.85+ ** You’re going for the maximum GPA from a maximum amount of effort. So worry about effort.
- A lot more than GPA is important when it comes to graduate schools. Before you ask what else is important, use the search function and see for yourself.</p>
<p>well wouldn’t it be easy to get a 4.0 at cal state vs emory and grad schools would not give too much weight to the emory grad @aluminum_boat </p>
<p>I don’t think that’s a good comparison.</p>
<p>If you’re getting a 3.5 at Emory, you won’t get a 4.0 at CalState. Let’s (for the sake of argument), say 3.5 at Emory vs a 3.8 at Cal State (even though this also has problems). Why take a 3.8 from Cal State when there are plenty of 3.8s from Emory (who are not you, in this case) to choose from.</p>
<p>But it depends on the school I guess.
Yesterday, I was talking to a Physics guy from a no-name school who got into Brown’s PhD program. One of the people at Brown said they almost didn’t accept him because his undergrad was a no-name school. But then decided to take a chance on him. </p>
<p>So that’s one example, I don’t know how common that is… But I imagine it’s pretty common at good schools (as in top 20 grad programs). </p>
<p>so you’re comparing emory to a cal-state? @aluminum_boat </p>
<p>Yes. Because you used that in your example…</p>
<p>It depends on the type of graduate school you’re trying to go to. Law school doesn’t care if you have a major, much less what it is–it’s all GPA/LSAT. Medical school is primarily about your science GPA and whether it’s clear that you have enough experience in medicine. For a PhD, it’s not GPA per se, but whether you’ve demonstrated that you’re a potential research—and you do that by excelling in really advanced classes in your area and by research. </p>
<p>@cnikroo PhD programs often want to see “decent” GPA’s (like many top science programs certainly love those with high GPA’s, but also say that a 3.25-3.3 is the beginning of the competitive range which implies they don’t want standard pre-med like applicants that simply just chose courses carefully and avoided a decent amount of advanced courses or graduate work to protect the GPA. They want to see more mixture of success and risk taking/willingness to learn at a high level) coupled with rigor and research and are smart enough and are apparently reasonable enough to give students who went to more selective school who took such advanced and graduate courses a bump in admissions because they understand that at least the competition levels were higher (while they can’t prove that the content at a place like Emory is more rigorous than “no name”, they do know that in more difficult courses that grade on curves, which a lot of research U’s have, it’s harder to make a high grade because of the peers).</p>
<p>Professional school admissions is as I always say, just stupid (except MBA admissions and maybe public health). Just get the highest numbers possible by any means (GPA and test scores) and then do the EC’s they expect you to do. IE, do whatever they say they want and you should have a chance. Doctoral programs don’t really make it so explicit (and generally try to avoid making stats that public and try to give flexible coursework guidelines. Plus it’s just known that they want you to do research/produce a piece of intellectual work of your own). </p>