<p>I'm new to the whole applying-to-college thing.</p>
<p>Cornell is my dream school, though! I've just learned that you have to apply to a certain college WITHIN Cornell and not to the entire university as a whole. Is this true for all universities? And if you get into a certain college within Cornell, are you 'stuck' in that college or can you transfer to a different one?</p>
<p>It is true for most if not all universities. A university is by definition an institution of higher learning which is made up of a number of colleges (somehow the number 7 sticks with me).</p>
<p>If you apply to a Bates, Amherst, Grinnell, etc., you are applying to that college, not a college within a university.</p>
<p>On your other points, look for the school at Cornell that is the best fit. If it doesn’t fit, you probably won’t get in.</p>
<p>You can transfer (although I believe there are different rules depending on which college you want to transfer out of and which one you want to transfer into), but most require that you keep your GPA pretty high.</p>
<p>thanks! that was very helpful.</p>
<p>just so you know, the way you transfer within Cornell is not the same as if you were a student outside Cornell transferring in, or if you were at Cornell and decided you wanted to go somewhere else altogether. check out the internal transfer division for more.</p>
<p>do you have any other questions about the different colleges within Cornell?</p>
<p>yeah, actually. if i want to study business, what would be the best college to apply to? same question for computer science?</p>
<p>Well, for business folks, there is Applied Economics and Management (AEM), Industrial and Labor Relations, or simply Economics. The first major is in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS); the second in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR); the third in the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). For folks interested in computer science, there is a Computer Science major in CAS.</p>
<p>thanks, islander!</p>
<p>hm, i wonder what the difference between “business” and “applied economics and management” is.</p>
<p>also, if anyone could answer, i’ve looked on cornell and there’s a business MINOR. i’m thinking of majoring in computer science or engineering with a minor in business. i wonder how effective that combo would be.</p>
<p>also, if someone could help me differentiate between major and minor? i know what they mean conceptually, but i’m not completely clear about it; does the student just take MORE classes of their major and LESS of their minor?</p>
<p>The engineering school has both a Computer Science major and a Business for Engineers Minor. </p>
<p>And yes, you take less of your minor classes and it shows up on your degree as a “Minor”</p>
<p>About the business minor…it’s only available to CALS and Engineering students.</p>
<p>Also, I’m pretty sure that minors only show up on your transcript, not your diploma.</p>
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<p>You are correct</p>
<p>well then, they sound useless. might as well graduate early</p>
<p>unless you are going to UPenn, Michigan, NYU, ND, or some other school I don’t know of with a well known, high ranked business school, don’t major in business, just get an MBA.</p>
<p>^ AEM is the [5th</a> ranked business program](<a href=“http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/03/0304_best_undergrad_business_schools/6.htm]5th”>http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/03/0304_best_undergrad_business_schools/6.htm) in the country.</p>
<p>According to USNews, its only 10</p>
<p>Top 10 in the country is fairly good. </p>
<p>“The undergraduate business program is unique because of its small size and high-caliber students. It seems as if all the business students know each other. The students are some of the hardest working people I have ever met.”
Hahaha, they like to pretend they are, dont they…</p>
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<p>Especially for a program that has been accredited for less than a decade and just got a massive new influx of resources.</p>
<p>Rankings don’t matter at all anyways. Proof? Friends of mine have chosen Yale over other engineering colleges even though Yale’s engineering leaves a lot to be desired. See. No care about rank.</p>
<p>Yeah, but Yale is ranked 3 in general, so rankings probably played a lot in their decision, or else they would have chosen the better engineering school.</p>
<p>I was being ironic…</p>