<p>Ibanking recruiting is also heavily affected by the markets. This year, banks are hiring a fraction compared to prior years. </p>
<p>The markets waited just for people like me to come around, bah :(</p>
<p>Someone really needs to put the difficulty of being a Cornell engineer in perspective for me... Anyone care to do that? What's the worst case scenario, studying six hours a day? Nine hours a day? (As an OR major)</p>
<p>As an OR major? </p>
<p>Assuming you are good at math (5 AP BC and 780 + SAT) I think if you study on average, four hours a day, every day, you can easily get a 3.5. No problem.</p>
<p>Most students fail to realize how much the work ethic of students may fail during their first year of college. There are tons of distractions -- romantic interests, sports, exrtracurricular activities, the Internet, everything. Suck it up and study. Kids get into problems and start stressing out when they don't start their problem set until the day before it is due.</p>
<p>The engineers I knew at Cornell tended not to do much work on weekends.</p>
<p>Most individuals who come in represent the intelligence of the average Cornell student and are remotely serious about their studies at Cornell have no problem having above a 3.3 by the time they graduate.</p>
<p>CayugaRed do you have AIM?</p>
<p>No. Not since my junior year of college. No.</p>
<p>But I can offer you the best advice I can. Choose the college to apply to based on where you think your academic interests lie. If you are at all interested in things like optimization or mathematical modeling of business processes, apply to engineering. If you are more interested in general business, apply to AEM.</p>
<p>The ends very rarely justify the means.</p>
<p>What if I've already taken all the math requirements Cornell majors need for engineering?</p>
<p>Edit: Errr, at least most of them.</p>