<p>For sciences and engineering</p>
<p>Yeah, it is an ivy that specializes in engineering</p>
<p>Depends on what you mean by “cutthroat.” It’s tough, but no one I know who goes to Cornell seems to complain about other students’ competitive behavior. Two of them went into CS without any programming experience and they don’t seem to have any issues with the CS heavy-hitters at Cornell.</p>
<p>Cornell Engineering is not cutthroat at all. Students do a lot of group projects together, study together, and so on. All very cooperative. The faculty have high expectations. The curriculum is demanding but students do not sabotage each other. Engineering has one of the highest graduation rates in the country for engineering schools.</p>
<p>Engineering Physics is the same.</p>
<p>Comp Sci is the same, too, except that Comp Sci has a weeder course…can’t recall the name of it but it is REALLY hard.</p>
<p>“Cutthroat” is a very vague term, but generally speaking, no. </p>
<p>I can vouch for the above posts. I have yet to see any sort of sabotage. In fact, I’ve seen many students team up and try to help each other in order to achieve their mutual goal of tackling that hard problem set or preparing for a difficult exam. Many of the “I hear pre-meds will steal textbooks from each other” are very exaggerated myths. </p>
<p>I agree with calandra. People try and help each other far more than they wish for someone to fail, and I’ve never seen any sabotage. It’s a pretty cooperative work environment</p>
<p>Most classes are on a curve so I can understand how people would think its cutthroat. But the simple answer is no, it isn’t.</p>
<p>I plan on majoring in computer science. How is the workload? I need to sleep at least 3 nights a week. I got into Silver Division at US computing olympiad and I have a decent background in a few computing languages. </p>
<p>I’ve heard the workloads not awful but not light. Still, if you budget your time you can sleep every night hahaha</p>
<p>ok ty</p>
<p>@lelyke @cbear2017 Do you know if on average most professors curve to a C+/B- or closer to B/B+</p>
<p>Most professors curve to a B/B+. Very few curve to a B- and I’ve never seen any professor at Cornell curve to a C+ though they may exist. Higher level CS courses (3110, 3410 etc) are actually somewhat difficult and a little time consuming. I’m only a CS minor but honestly if you love CS it doesn’t feel like work.</p>