<p>If I get in when I apply this year, I would like to major in management. I'd also like to double-major with aero/astro but is it worth going to MIT to major only in management. It is one of the TOP undergraduate programs after all. Anyway, is it looked down upon as "easy"?</p>
<p>I am a parent of a high school student, so I was at MIT a good while ago. I don’t know what you mean by “worth it.” I knew a few management majors. They did take some good-natured ribbing. They deserved it! The class they used to fulfill their “lab” requirement involved no loss of sleep, interaction with dangerous chemicals, or any of the other hallmarks of the great humbling MIT lab machine. I don’t think any of them minded when the job offers came in, though. </p>
<p>If you would enjoy MIT’s nerd culture and don’t mind fulfilling the Institute requirements, MIT a great place to be, even for a management major.</p>
<p>You can double major in aero/astro and management. I don’t see why you can’t stay interested in both. You should also keep in mind that most people at MIT wind up in a different major than they expected. I’ve changed my majors a few times now ([6-3, minor in 21W] -> [6-3+21W, minor in 7] -> [6-7+18, minor in 21W]).</p>
<p>@lidusha- when did i say i wasn’t interested in both? thanks anyway for the advice(:</p>
<p>@math4bap- thanks for the advice!</p>
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<p>Maybe it’s my fault for missing a question mark. What i meant was that I DO like them both and that double-major is what I’m aiming to if I get in. I’m asking if it is worth majoring in management only in MIT just out of curiosity…sorry for not making it clear</p>
<p>^ Yes? It’s a top business school, I don’t see the issue with it. Keep in mind that you still have to do a science core regardless, so you should like science a bit ^_^</p>
<p>It’s certainly not an unpopular choice – [63</a> Management degrees](<a href=“Statistics & Reports | MIT Registrar”>Statistics & Reports | MIT Registrar) were awarded last year, and only [four</a> double majors](<a href=“Statistics & Reports | MIT Registrar”>Statistics & Reports | MIT Registrar) in Management are listed as having been awarded. (Note that there are almost certainly more, as the double-major stats only list the second major declared, and Sloan is one of the few departments that is advantageous to declare as your first major rather than your second, because you get priority in the course bidding system. But clearly not everybody in Sloan is a double-major.)</p>
<p>Management majors are among the [url=<a href=“http://gecd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/GSS2011.pdf]best-compensated[/url”>http://gecd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/GSS2011.pdf]best-compensated[/url</a>] bachelor’s graduates from MIT (see PDF page 18).</p>
<p>thanks everyonee! :)</p>
<p>btw mollie i read your posts recently:D</p>
<p>Echoing lidusha, I’d hesitate to do a course 16 major unless you are really gung-ho about it, because it’s going to dominate your life. If you want to major in sci/engineering because everyone else is, pick another major. Course 16 is probably the most difficult and demanding major at MIT.</p>
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<p>Course 16 is not the most demanding or difficult major at MIT. In fact, there is no such major. If you want to major in aero/astro because you like aero/astro, I suggest you major in aero/astro, and don’t listen to anyone telling you it’s hard. Life is hard. MIT is hard. If that bothered you, you wouldn’t be interested in MIT to begin with.</p>
<p>@collegealum314- Why would I, or anybody else, like to major in engineering if I didn’t like it? Why would I make my life miserable by doing something that I don’t like just because others are doing it? I know you were trying to help but I consider your post a little disrespectful because of you thinking I am or could be deciding what I’m going to study based on what everybody else is majoring in. I don’t mean to be harsh or anything but that way of thinking really schocked me.</p>
<p>@lidusha- I second you and you have no idea how much. You are so correct. Appreciate your little pep talk ;)</p>
<p>^Well, it sounded like you wanted to major in business and course 16 was an afterthought. That’s how it read to me.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are plenty of people who major in engineering but who are premed or who are lukewarm about engineering (perhaps intending to go to Wall Street or something after graduation.) </p>
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<p>I do consider it the “hardest,” but let me be more specific. It probably has the most requirements for the major. Also, it requires you to be at a high level of theory as well as engineering design. Some majors require more of one or the other. For Chem E, people who are great in the classroom can expect to be good at it. Theoretical math, of course, requires you to be good at theory, but there is no engineering design component.</p>
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<p>Eh, maybe, but not in a sense that matters. It requires 198 units (48 elective). My major requires 192 units (48 elective). The vast majority of people graduate with a few more classes than they need - half a class is not much a dent.</p>
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<p>The impression I get from course 16ers is that it’s very broad, not unusually deep.</p>
<p>MIT is hard as a whole, but not impossible. Am I right?</p>
<p>chamii- Yes, you are right. It really sucks sometimes but you get through it. The workload often seems unmanageable but when you actually buckle down and do the work it is fine and definitely possible.</p>
<p>Who doesn’t like a challenge?</p>