<p>I am currently a high school senior who's interested in the business field. I'd really like to major in economics but I'm worried about the amount of math required. I know that the major requires a couple classes of calculus and a lot of stats, but is it all manageable for someone who may not be the best at math? </p>
<p>My strong point is reading and writing, which are also required to succeed in business school. I 'm not necessarily terrible at math (I've received A's in all my h.s. math courses), it's just not a strength.</p>
<p>I’m a Junior in an Honors Econ program at a top 20 university with a top 25 Economics graduate program (I haven’t found a ranking for an UG program). Although if I get a B+ this term I may get booted down to the normal Econ, but whatever.</p>
<p>Math is really important. The reason is that if you’re intuitive with Mathematics then the rest of the stuff is super easy. If you’re not great at Math, I’m not fantastic, then you’ll still be able to succeed, it will just take a little more time. At my program you only need 2 Stats classes, although the BA option can take only one. </p>
<p>[Greg</a> Mankiw’s Blog](<a href=“http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com%5DGreg”>http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com) is a fantastic resource for people trying to study Economics. I recommend it highly. The best advice I can give is that you take one Math class per quarter or semester until it gets too hard. So you should take like 8 classes total, College Algebra, 3 Quarters of Calculus, with Linear Algebra, Matrix Algebra and Multivariate calculus and some applications. At my school most of those classes are like 1 and 2 credit classes that don’t absorb your life nearly as much as the first year sequence.</p>
<p>By the time you get into the upper-upper level microeconomics you need to be great at Math otherwise you’re not going to be very successful.</p>