<p>I'm a senior at Princeton in the Woodrow Wilson School. I'll be an RCA in Rocky next year, and I'm here to answer your questions about life at Princeton.</p>
<p>Ask away.</p>
<p>Any particular courses you think are very important to take to be accepted to WWS?</p>
<p>The WWS admissions cap is set at 90 students. Having critical foreign language skills (Mandarin, Arabic, etc.) and a science background are two factors that help students get in. They factor in GPA as well.</p>
<p>There are no recommended courses or prerequisites, but the major does have distribution reqs.</p>
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<p>How feasible is majoring in engineering (ORFE specifically) and getting a certificate in WWS (in term of admission and course load)?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>this is not WWS related, and actually rather trivial: but what cell phone service works best? and i REALLY want to get the iphone so i hope that ATT works</p>
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<p>How feasible is majoring in engineering (ORFE specifically) and getting a certificate in WWS (in term of admission and course load)?</p>
<p>Thanks.
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<p>Engineers have too many reqs of their own and can't do WWS.</p>
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what cell phone service works best? and i REALLY want to get the iphone so i hope that ATT works
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<p>Verizon is the best. With both ATT and T mobile you're not guaranteed reception in your dorm.</p>
<p>Is it possible to double major? Has anyone tried it before?</p>
<p>so it is not possible to do a BSE degree with a certificate in WWS?</p>
<p>It's technically possible...one of the rising juniors I know is MechE with a WWS certificate. It just means you can't take any other non-major classes, pretty much.</p>
<p>You can also technically double major and write two theses, but I haven't heard of anything like this happening in the engineering department since you guys have long-term research projects.</p>
<p>isn't it true that if you decide to do a certificate at the same time you forfeit your opportunity to take courses outside your major/certifcate because you have to take courses that count toward your major/certificate?</p>
<p>That would totally depend on the certificate you're getting.</p>
<p>If you're doing WWS and EAS your courses would have a lot of overlap, leaving you plenty of time to take other classes.</p>
<p>Something like Physics and Finance would not, however.</p>
<p>when and where do engineers usually study abroad? can engineers sometimes satisfy departmental units by taking equivalent courses at another institution over the summer? is it common for engineers to do this?</p>
<p>How much do you usually spend on books in the beginning of the term (reading-intensive HUM sequence included)?</p>
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when and where do engineers usually study abroad? can engineers sometimes satisfy departmental units by taking equivalent courses at another institution over the summer? is it common for engineers to do this?
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<p>I haven't heard of any engineers studying abroad. It's best to email the engineering school or check their website on this. You can travel abroad in the summer though, but during the school year you'll be taking courses. </p>
<p>Engineering classes do have trips. I know Engineers without Borders runs several trips during the year. They've gone to Chile and Ethiopia recently.</p>
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How much do you usually spend on books in the beginning of the term (reading-intensive HUM sequence included)?
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<p>I try to spend under $200 a semester. If you're really diligent, you can just go to the library and borrow books there. Libraries are guaranteed to have books used in classes on reserve (you can borrow them for 3 hours or overnight). </p>
<p>Photocopy packets - called Pequods - are also really expensive, so you can go to the library to read them if you're cash strapped.</p>
<p>If you're taking something like the HUM sequence, you'll be screaming through books. Sometimes you might only need to read 100 pages or so from a book, so make sure you really need if before you buy it.</p>
<p>thank you mrzhang23 =)</p>
<p>I know engineers that have studied abroad. You jsut have to work with the department, but its not too difficult. It's really easy to go abroad for the summer as well. </p>
<p>also physics and finance have a decent amount of overlapping classes and you can somewhat easily do physics independent work that includes a finance component. That's the most important part when looking at certificates: whether you can incorporate it into your independent work for your major or whether you have to do a separate paper (or in some certificates a separate thesis)</p>
<p>A couple of things:</p>
<p>1) Yes, engineering + WWS certificate is possible. In fact, on the Woody Woo website it even says that many of the people who get a WWS certificate are engineering and natural science students.</p>
<p>2) It's not even "technically" possible to double major as Princeton <em>will not</em> award two degrees to one person. They used to, but according to their official policy, they don't know. You can complete the requirements for two majors, but you won't get two degrees.</p>
<p>3) Books for humanities kids are a lot. I spent most of freshman and sophomore years paying between $400 to $600 for books a semester. That said, if you wait to see what books you'll actually need to buy versus the ones where only an excerpt or two is taken out, then you can certainly save a lot of money. Many students also get their materials offline as resources such as Google Scholar and other sites are helping to make available a lot of formerly hard-copy-only books.</p>
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2) It's not even "technically" possible to double major as Princeton <em>will not</em> award two degrees to one person. They used to, but according to their official policy, they don't know. You can complete the requirements for two majors, but you won't get two degrees.
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<p>To elaborate a bit further on that point, if you choose a certificate that differs drastically from your major (classics major with wws cert, for example), you may likely have to end up writing two theses during senior year.</p>
<p>is writing two theses advisable?</p>