<p>I'm going to be in ILR next year and was wondering if it would be a good idea to AP out of the econ requirements. I would like to take higher level econ classes later on; will I be lost in those if I didn't take the intro courses at Cornell? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>If you’re really serious about econ, then maybe it would be better not to place out of it. I took AP Micro in high school and took it again at Cornell and we covered way more content. The first month of the class covered like my entire high school course.</p>
<p>Have you learned about externalities, public goods, long-run aggregate supply, monopsonies, etc.? If these terms don’t sound familiar, then I would recommend taking the introductory course. If you think you have a pretty good understanding of things, then maybe it would be ok to start with second level econ courses.</p>
<p>Ok, thank you. 2 of the 4 examples sound familiar. I think I should probably take the class. Is it fairly easy?</p>
<p>Econ 3130 = Death</p>
<p>I’d use the credits for 1120 and just take 1110 at Cornell. I’d strongly advise not taking it with Burkhauser, though.</p>
<p>what teachers would you recommend for both intro econ courses?</p>
<p>Wissink for both. I haven’t heard anything bad about the other 1120 teacher(s) though.</p>
<p>I recommend placing out of intro Econ. That’s what I did (I’m an Econ alum) and many of my friends as well. Intro at Cornell covers more than in AP from what I can tell, but nothing that puts you at a disadvantage in later courses.</p>
<p>do the higher level econ classes build strongly on old stuff or is it mainly new concepts all together?</p>
<p>It’s a mixture of new material and readdressing previous topics with more analytical/mathematical rigor. Usually the professor will do enough review of the topic to jog your memory enough to approach the new material. Even if you completely forgot something, nothing in intro Econ is all that complicated and can be sufficiently learned quite quickly. You probably cover a substantially greater variety of topics in econ in intro/AP than you do in any upper level course. As such, no topic in intro/AP is all that in-depth so when you do go in-depth on select topics in upper level courses, you should be fine. Whatever review of the topic the professor does is likely more than sufficient and in the unlikely case it’s not, you can always go to office hours.</p>
<p>Whenever I helped any of my friends with their intro homework, the only difference I ever noticed between Cornell intro and AP is some of the stuff in 101/102 is solved algebraically instead of graphically. I hope you are able to set two linear functions equal to each other and solve to find the equilibrium since that’s like 8th grade level math…</p>