Advice for a future Math/Econ major?

<p>Tentative schedule:</p>

<p>FALL 2011
ECON 001
MATH 027 or 028 or 028S
MATH 029
ENGL 001F
CHIN 011
Bowling</p>

<p>SPRING 2012
ECON 031
MATH 034 or 035
STAT 031
CHIN 012
Squash</p>

<p>FALL 2012
ECON 011
ECON 035
ENGL 001G
CHIN 011A
CHIN 020
Basketball</p>

<p>SPRING 2013
ECON 101
ECON 135
MATH 044
CHIN 012A
Fencing</p>

<p>FALL 2013
ECON 122
ECON 032
MATH 056
STAT 061
Badminton</p>

<p>SPRING 2014
ECON 021
ECON 033
STAT 111
Racketlon</p>

<p>FALL 2014
ECON 165
ECON 102
MATH 063
ENGL 002A
Table Tennis</p>

<p>SPRING 2015
ECON 151
ECON 171
MATH 067
Tennis</p>

<p>INTENDED DEGREE: Honors B.A. Economics with minor in Mathematics and Statistics; B.A. Mathematics with an emphasis on Statistics with minor in Chinese </p>

<p>How does this look? Too hard? Too easy? Suggestions?</p>

<p>I believe you will have to take a social science class not in the econ department. Also, while it can be fun to plan out your schedule, keep in mind that probably not ever course will be offered exactly the semester you want to take it, and that there will be schedule conflicts, so just stay flexible! Also, keep in mind that it is more common to take four courses in a semester than 5, and I don’t know that it is a great idea to take 5 first semester of freshman year before you have a chance to get settled.</p>

<p>Quite right on all counts. Strongly advise taking no more than 4.5 credits first semester. You will take a math placement test - talk to the math folks after you get to Swat to figure out the most appropriate math course to take. Look carefully at the distribution requirements, writing requirements, and the 20 course rule. It is fine to have a plan, but as Helmuth von Moltke the Elder wrote: “no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.”</p>

<p>I hope your intended degrees are either-or, not both? If you double-major, you are not allowed to have any minors except in the Honors program if the Honors minor is the same subject as your second major.</p>

<p>General advice: Don’t plan 5-credit semesters, let them happen as awesome electives pop up. Be flexible with your planning, but as someone who also has her entire college courseload planned out, don’t listen to the naysayers and do what keeps you comfortable.</p>

<p>You do realize that you only need 4 PE credits? So if you take one half-semester class each semester, you’ll be done in four semesters. I’d probably advise cutting Math 29 from Fall 2011 in favor of Math 28S, but scheduling may make the decision for you. English first-year seminars are often lotteried. And if you’re serious about the (re-)planning habit, get well-acquainted with this web page: [Swarthmore</a> College :: Academic Advising & Support :: Dept. Info.](<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/x24600.xml]Swarthmore”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/x24600.xml)</p>