All right so as the title has explained, I have a few questions that I can’t seem to find the answer to.
So, I’m currently a senior in high school and working on my Common App. About the end of the year last year, I decided to settle on being a business major since I’m planning to get into BigLaw. I figured this would be a good background to have for obvious reasons and in the case that I can’t get into Law School or I can’t find a job as a corporate lawyer afterwards, I have something strong to fall back on. Lately, though, I’ve been wondering if this is as good of a plan as it sounds? Would it be more beneficial for me to major in something else?
My second question has to do with UChicago. It’s currently one of the schools I’m looking at and planning to apply to. Originally I was going to do the ‘Preparation for Law School’ program/major but then I stumbled across threads saying that it wasn’t a good idea? Why not? Should I place the Preparation for Business program as my first choice instead even though I’m currently not planning to get an MBA?
Last question is whether Economics and Business are similar enough that I can pick Econ in the case of the colleges that don’t have a Business major? I know they’re not exactly the same obviously but are they close? If not, is Econ as hard as people make it out to be?
Business majors at my institution usually take many electives besides the core requirements, which are the same core requirements for an Economics major. In particular, macro and & microeconomics, various accounting and mathematics for business courses.
By what do you go by when you ask is Economics a hard major? Depending on the institution, the number of mathematics and elective courses will definitely vary. So when “people” say Economics is hard, they probably mean the amount of mathematics involved (sometimes the entire calculus sequence as well as a few more courses).
I would differ in my answer to your question #3. A business major and an economics major are related, but the curriculum you would take for each major would likely be very different. My reason for saying this is that in the vast majority of colleges economics is a liberal arts major and is not part of the business school. If you were to take a business major you would need to take a business core that would include introductory classes in a number of business disciplines such as accounting, fiance, IT, management etc. You can look at some curriculum of schools you are interested in online and see which path has classes that are more appealing to you. It sounds like the poster above is doing economics as part of a business school but that is often not the case. If you are going to go to law school it probably won’t matter a whole (having some background in accounting/finance won’t hurt if you end up doing corporate law but many pick that up along the way) lot so go with what is more interesting to you.