<p>Hi,
I am considering applying to PAM and have a few questions about the major:</p>
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<li><p>how many students are in the major? (what is the boy/girl ratio?)</p></li>
<li><p>how hard are the classes within the major?</p></li>
<li><p>how difficult is it to go pre-med from the major?</p></li>
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<p>im in pam so ill try to answer your questions although to be honest they are kind of odd. </p>
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<li><p>don’t know, why does this matter? unlike other majors like engineering or the hard sciences, pam is not a male dominated major. i think it might even be a fairly even ratio. so, im assuming you are asking b/c of admission chances? i doubt humec would give more weight to a female or male. </p></li>
<li><p>they vary. i dont think any of them are particularly difficult like you would expect with a math/science major. however, most require a ton of reading. profs vary on assignments but there is usually a paper, a group project, and at least one public speaking assignment. however, some classes like pam2000 (intermediate micro) just have prelims and hmwk. </p></li>
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<p>i think one of the more difficult classes is pam3100 (multiple regression analysis) but if you have a solid understanding of calculus and intro to stats you should be ok. it’s just a much different pam class than the rest i’ve taken. it has homework, prelims, and a major research paper/presentation. </p>
<p>pam has a huge variety of classes, mostly focused around concentration areas such as social policy, financial policy, etc. </p>
<p>i don’t really know why you care about the level of difficultly for the classes if you are considering majoring in it. pam is a really specific major and most students in pam are passionate about government and public administration. </p>
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<li>pre-med? are you sure you’re thinking about pam? pam is usually for pre-law or masters in public policy for grad school. pam can’t get you into med school b/c there are only 2 science classes required and they can be anything.</li>
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<p>I was just wondering about the boy/ girl ratio because human ecology is a very female dominated school, but PAM seems like it could be for anyone. And as for pre-med, I guess I would more like to know if you know anyone (and if so, how many?) doing pre-med from PAM. I know it has a different set of requirements but at least they overlap a little with some science and math.</p>
<p>^ i don’t know for sure, but im almost positive you cant do pre-med with pam. im not too familiar with pre-med requirements but the only way i would think it would even be slightly possible was to take all of your required cornell electives in the sciences to match up with the requirements. but i dont know if the amount of cornell electives is enough for pre-med, i think it’s around 15-20 credits (5-7 classes) + the 2 science classes (7 credits). that doesn’t seem like enough. other than those electives, none of the pam classes are science based–no labs or anything. you can go online and check the degree requirements to graduate and that will give you an idea. if you know what the pre-med requirements are you can check it against them. but like i said, i dont know anyone who is pre-med in pam. most ppl are pre-med in biology and society, but honestly there are not that many pre-med majors in humec. most of them that i’ve met are in cals.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure the requirements for premed are:
2 semester of english (covered with freshmen writing)
2 semester of calculus (I think 1 is covered in the PAM requirement)
2 semesters of Bio, Chem, Physics and Orgo and their labs (2 of which are covered by PAM) </p>
<p>so that comes down to 6 science classes plus labs and 1 math class in addition to the PAM requirements. I see that taking away a lot of electives but it certainly doesn’t seem impossible…</p>
<p>hopefully you can make it work if that’s what you want. you can always call humec and ask too. but keep in mind that humec is really about fit, so if you are thinking about pre-med it’s going to look kind of weird you want to major in pam b/c pam and medical school aren’t really related unless you can tie your fit to health policy or something. good luck!</p>