<p>What are some popular majors in Princeton for undergraduate students? Is its molecular biology department good enough to prepare you for medical school application?</p>
<p>Also, are there any honor classes in Princeton? If so, do they carry extra grade point? Any inflatoin on the grades in Princeton?</p>
<p>good questions...</p>
<p>There is no honors program at Princeton because Princeton is an honors program within itself :)</p>
<p>As for grade inflation, I haven't heard anything about it.</p>
<p>there are honors classes tho- mostly in physics and math-- however they dont change the weight of the class or anything</p>
<p>I heard when I dropped D off, the most popular majors are English, Econ, Woodrow Wilson and two others that I can't remember. They are making a real push to get people to try majoring in the smaller departments.</p>
<p>I think it would be advantageous to major in one of the smaller departments anyway...you would get much more personal attention, and the quality of the department will most likely be great because...well...it's Princeton (as opposed to some other schools, where smaller deparments generally mean worse departments)</p>
<p>what departments are considered "smaller department?" In addition, is Princeton's engineering school anything special, or should I look elsewhere if I am truly committed to engineering?</p>
<p>on the department redistribution initiative, see:</p>
<p>"Currently, 46 percent of juniors and seniors major in these departments (in order of popularity): politics, history, eco-nomics, English and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. That leaves 54 percent of the students concentrating in the other 29 departments."</p>
<p>and on its early results, see:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/</a> (after)
<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/2n.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/05/0502/2n.shtml</a></p>
<p>Thirty-eight percent of sophomores have chosen to major in economics, politics, history, English and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, traditionally the five most popular academic departments, Dean of the College Nancy Malkiel reported at a faculty meeting April 25. Those departments account for 43 percent of concentrators in the junior and senior classes.</p>
<p>The shift toward smaller departments in the class of 2007 includes a 15 percent increase in students choosing to major in the humanities and a 7 percent rise in the natural sciences. Malkiel noted that those figures may change modestly, as 10 members of the class of 2007 have not yet selected a major and some will likely change their minds by next fall.</p>
<p>Departments with the largest percentage increases in majors include: classics (100 percent); music (100 percent); Slavic languages and literature (60 percent); comparative literature (57 percent); and religion (52 percent).</p>
<p>wayman, princeton has a top-20 engineering program. u.s. news recently ranked the undergraduate program #12 in the country, behind only cornell (#9) among the ivies. by way of comparison, harvard is #31 and yale #44.</p>