<p>Well I’m not sure how advanced in math I want to go, but ORIE seemed cool because in my school I took something like discrete math, with studies in combinatorics, graph theory, and dynamical systems, and all of these were really cool. Financial economics also seemed pretty cool, econometrics seems cool, but accounting not so much! Haha!
Econ/CS seems really interesting to me as well, but I don’t have much prior experience. As a freshman, how much time do I have to pick a major aside from econ, as I do not want to do the bare minimum. Also how do minors play into the equation, how many classes did you take in those (you seem really busy! Haha!)</p>
<p>Thanks again!
I also got a 5 on AP eng. lang, if I get a 5 on Lit also, do I place out of both? I should have like 15 AP classes by the end of next year, I won’t get all 5s, but I’m taking both economics classes, US gov, etc. so I want to take advantage of this.</p>
<p>If you are in CAS, you don’t have to declare any major until the 2nd semester of your sophomore year. So if you possibly have interest in CS, definitely take an intro programming course your freshman year. The IR minor is actually decently intense at 9 classes. German took me 7 classes, though the minor itself is 4. However, I started the language from scratch so I needed 7. IR with govt/econ as majors isn’t an intimidating because of overlapping requirements. I think the average minor is probably 4-5 classes (but I’m really making that number up). I think you only need a 4 on AP Econ to place out of intro.</p>
<p>You can only place out of one FWS, so you’ll still have to take 1.</p>
<p>Gah so the lit AP exam wouldn’t help place, that’s fine though there are always limits. Well I definitely want to study economics, that’s something that has captured my interest for years. Is there room in the CAS requirements for taking electives like computer science and government?</p>
<p>Should be plenty of room to take whatever you want. No need to limit yourself to 4 classes per semester either. There were quite a few semesters I took 5. I would recommend you stick to 4 for your first semester though.</p>
<p>4 classes isn’t too bad at all, but I think for your first semester, you should take time to adjust and thus not go more than that. There’s a lot of adjusting to coming to Cornell; and more than just academics. That said 5 is a good workload and 6 is getting pretty heavy after you do your first semester. </p>
<p>For you, if you do econ, your first semester will probably have Econ 3130 or 3140, a FWS, CS, and math.</p>
<p>That sounds really manageable and really something I’d like to do. If I do some more research and see that placement is comparable to engineering (although your friend in econ/CS provides a great case for Arts and Sciences!), I’m definitely doing this!
Thanks!</p>
<p>I would but I don’t think there’s time between now and when I can apply. It’s fine though, if absolute worst comes to worst, I could probably just transfer, but for now A&S seems fine. I was there for a few weeks and there’s no reasonable way I could go there and back I don’t think, but the next best thing is asking around right haha?</p>
<p>My guess is that placement won’t be that different for what you are looking for. ORIE probably has a higher average starting salary, but that’s because not everyone in econ is preparing for a high-earning career in finance/engineering. If you do econ/math or econ/cs, your career options will be plentiful.</p>
<p>Also if I do the requirements like the engineering math sequence with the econ major, I still could apply to grad school in computational finance/financial engineering right?</p>