<p>Is there any PAM/Human Ecology students here cause I would like pm you with some questions?</p>
<p>I'm an applicant as well, would love to talk to a current student.</p>
<p>I'm a freshman in HumEc, and while I'm a Bio & Society major, I am taking the intro PAM course. I can't promise I'll have answers, but I can give your questions a shot :)</p>
<p>How do you like the intro PAM course? How is Avery?</p>
<p>I'm also actually looking into transferring from UVa to the PAM program...small world.</p>
<p>I think intro PAM is a great class, even for someone who isn't a PAM major. It's really interesting, and Professor Avery is great--she really knows what she's talking about and lectures well. Despite the fact that there are 120-130 people in the class, she doesn't mind answering questions if someone speaks up during her lecture. I have heard that the prof who teaches intro PAM in the spring makes the class a lot less work (no textbook, apparently), but I've also heard that you really don't learn much. Despite the workload, I'm glad I took it with Avery.</p>
<p>freshman PAM major here.... questions?</p>
<p>What do most people in PAM plan on doing later on in life? Also, how would you compare the difficulty of the PAM curriculum with other majors?</p>
<p>are there a lot of pre-law students in pam? not as much as ilr i'm guessing, but still a lot?</p>
<p>There are a lot of pre-law students in PAM, but people do other other things too. If you want to see the career goals for the intro PAM TAs, you can go here: Course</a> Info
The site also has a lot of other information on PAM 2300 if you're interested.</p>
<p>Are there more males or females in PAM? Also, are there a lot of minorities?</p>
<p>thanks kat</p>
<p>i think i'll probs be better at answering these questions considering this is actually my major...</p>
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<li><p>it seems like everyone wants to be pre-law... i'd argue it seems like just as many as ILR (my roommate is ILR). That being said there are only 40 or so people in my grade who are PAM and i'd say i know of like 15-20 who want to be pre-law (and i havent even spoken to everyone yet)</p></li>
<li><p>A lot of people in PAM do want to go do public policy. in fact there was a meeting today to consider changing the name "PAM" to Public Policy... people who are already in the program would be grandfathered into having PAM on their diploma but the name may change for future years. A lot of people want to do i-banking (though that isn't so lucrative anymore). others want to work for the government, others the healthcare industry, and others business in general. </p></li>
<li><p>PAM got rid of "concentrations" this year so the curriculum is extremely open ended, you take economics, government, psych, sociology, gov't, public policy... classes, etc. There is a lot of room for electives, i describe PAM as the arts and sciences major for social sciences of the endowed colleges</p></li>
<li><p>It is split about 50/50 girl/boy. i know HumEc is mostly girls (supposedly) but you will never ever ever notice it..... ever.</p></li>
<li><p>I guess it is diverse... but cornell is far from diverse (i know i'll probably get a lot of flack for saying this but...). i mean seriously, it is mostly caucasian.. very few black people at cornell in general.... lots of chinese</p></li>
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<p>other questions?</p>
<p>oh and first semester PAM is HELL. HELL.. actually HELL. like more work than you can wrap your mind around... i think i was assigned 4 books, 4 30 page reading assignemnts, a 25 page group project, 2 prelims, and a 6-8 page paper this week....</p>
<p>oh and first semester PAM is hell. more work than you will ever imagine, though i hear it gets easier after this (Avery's class is a 9-5 full time job w/o benefits or pay)</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. How is recruiting for PAM majors? Is there a specific career center for PAM/HumEc or is it just the Cornell one in general?</p>
<p>Human Ecology has a career center... that being said i doubt you'll utilize it first semester freshman year (nor will you have time to breathe) :) ... this all being said i am a varsity athlete also so i just dont have time in general... but don't listen to what engineers and whatnot say about PAM ... it is a LOT of work</p>
<p>Hmm, so is PAM considered as an "easy major" by other Cornellians like AEM and Hotel seem to be?</p>
<p>basically if you're Pre-med you think everyone else has it easy. Honestly everyoe here does work. I mean we work hard but we party hard also, PAM is a lot of work, i'd be lying if i said it wasn't. Anyone in PAM though will tell you that PAM 230 is the hardest class you take for 4 years... and by hard i mean it is soo o much work.. if you'd like i could send you the syllabus or describe in detail what we do. That combined with Econ, Psych (which is NO LONGER an easy A course.. median grade is an 82), freshman writing seminar, and PAM203 you don't have time to breathe first semester....</p>
<p>Haha engineers think everyone has it easy but them, but at least the social sciences/govt/econ majors don't get as much flack as the humanities/arts...at NYU the premeds/engineers mock the kids getting degrees in things like English lit and Communications. </p>
<p>govt, law, public policy, business...that's what I expect PAM grads to do. I'm interested in studying policy primarily, might go into law...I was thinking of ILR but after researching both curriculums, I prefer PAM. </p>
<p>I always had the impression Cornell was diverse; then again, I'm not a student, I just visited once. 70% of this country is white, so I'm not surprised the majority of students are white...that said Cornell also has a decent asian population which I like. </p>
<p>Diversity to me doesn't just mean ethnically, what's more important is in terms of types of students with differing views. I thought I would get that at NYU but every 3rd person I meet is a pot smoking hippie "film-maker"...nothing wrong with that of course.</p>