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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regardless of weather, it's important to distinguish that students majoring in engineering and CS are having a very different experience at Cornell than the hospitality or the humanities students. I'd throw in Dyson too - Applied Econ and Management. Those three programs are incredibly competitive. There are known to be difficult, intense, and cutthroat. You either have the disposition for it, or you don't  - particularly engineering and CS.

It's probably best for students that like the outdoors, can compartmentalize, and have an outgoing personality that makes it easy to make friends. I'd be wary of sending an introvert with Seasonal Affective Disorder to do STEM at cold and dark Cornell. Hotel Administration and the softer majors will be different. Plenty of time to join clubs or the Greek system. But engineering and CS are very time consuming majors at Cornell.[/quote]

Dyson difficulty is closer to the hotel school than Engineering/CS. [/quote]

Is Cornell Applied Econ really considered difficult and cutthroat? Curious to hear more about this major - is it a Wall Street feeder or something like that? Back in my day at Cornell (Arts and Sci) no one really understood what/who that major was supposed to be for. [/quote]

yeah, I'm curious as well. I'm one of the alum PP's who graduated in the 2000s and I don't remember the AEM major having a reputation for being super competitive or challenging. My best friend majored in AEM and he breezed through it, by his own admission, as did a lot of his other friends in the major. The Economics majors in Arts&Sciences seemed to gripe a lot more about their problem sets and courseload. However, this was back when AEM was solely housed under the Agriculture school; I'm not familiar with the Dyson structure or affiliation with the Business school. Maybe that's upped the competitiveness of AEM somehow? [/quote]

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