<p>I posted this in the "college life" section but didn't get any replies. Though this would be a better place to ask...</p>
<p>Anyone know anything about this course? I've ALWAYS been weak in math courses (I'm taking Precalc as a Sr. in HS btw), so I'm kinda freaked out that I'll take this course in college, and be totally lost. Ok, I'm not horrible at math...but I'm not confident in my abilities. Is this course supposed to be very hard? I'm assuming no, but just wanted to hear some opinions.</p>
<p>Yeah, you're probably wondering why a potential business student is bad at math, but I'm more interested in Marketing for undergrad, and then law school.</p>
<p>Business calc is just applied calc. It's more application and less theory. For you, it will probably be a little easier.</p>
<p>"Yeah, you're probably wondering why a potential business student is bad at math, but I'm more interested in Marketing for undergrad, and then law school."</p>
<p>Keep in mind that marketing does involve a lot of math.</p>
<p>What type of math should I expect? At most schools, the only requirements I've really seen (for marketing) are one or two types of Business Calcs, and then different economic courses. I'm fine with numbers, as long as It doesn't involve me having to take courses like Calculus II or anything else known to be really difficult.</p>
<p>Marketing uses a lot of Statistics, not really so much Calc. Think more data analysis.</p>
<p>You won't need to know advanced math, but you need to be comfortable with statistics and handling large amounts of data. Marketing involves a lot of things like product costing, market research and market forecasting that involve quite a bit of math. Running regressions and creating economic models is about as advanced as it gets--which isn't hard, you just have to be comfortable with quantifying the market. </p>
<p>Mind you, your program may or may not actually go into depth in these areas. I had to for my Intro Marketing.</p>