<p>I'm having trouble deciding whether to be a Econ major or a Business major for undergrad.
I'm entering a CCC as a freshman in the fall and I currently have Trig, English 101A, Micro and Macroecon and History of Rock n Roll on my schedule. </p>
<p>I read on assist that Business majors require more prereq's to transfer such as accounting and stats. Before, I was pretty set on studying business but I'm feeling a bit discouraged now because I'm afraid I won't able to fit in all the classes I need to take. Accounting classes and Stats all take up 5 semester units each and I'll have to take those in addition to my Calc and English classes and my IGETC or whatever. </p>
<p>What do you guys think? </p>
<p>I saw on the website that Calc 3 is required for econ at UCSD, and for UCI, they require that AND Linear Algebra? Is this true? Because I read somewhere that people TAGed into UCI econ with just Calc I and II.</p>
<p>Don’t take cal 3 and linear algebra. You will get into UCSD and UCI no problem cause you can TAG them if you meet the requirements. Just take calculus 1/2 for math. </p>
<p>You have 1 year and a half left… That is plenty of time. You can fit in accounting 1/2 + calculus 1/2 + IGETC requirements easily.</p>
<p>if you’re doing econ or biz econ at UCI, you don’t need to do calc3 or LA, just take math4 at UCI over the summer. If you’re doing Quantitative economics at UCI, just do Math4 and THEN math 3a over the summer at UCI</p>
<p>for UCSD, if you’re doing Management sciences, I believe you can get away with doing one or two math courses over the summer as well.</p>
<p>I checked on UCI’s website and you’re right.
Is assist correct with the required courses? It makes it confusing as to whether courses are required or recommended.</p>
<p>Once you have fulfilled the requirements for TAG. You will GUARANTEED for transfer. So you don’t have to take calculus 3 and linear algebra to get in. Most transfer don’t even bother unless you plan on doing the quantitative econ major.</p>
<p>Plus the math 4 requirement is more easily done at UCI. 1 quarter vs. 2 semesters. </p>
<p>If you are doing well at your CC then you should not be worried about getting into any of the UC’s except UCLA and UCB because the other schools you can easily get in through TAG. So I would focus your pre-reqs on those schools and not worry about the others.</p>
<p>calc 2 is required just about everywhere for business or econ FYI.</p>
<p>UCI’s business major is competitive to get into FYI. If you want in it, plan on doing all of the courses for it. Econ, biz econ and quant econ are not that competitive to get into so you don’t have to worry a ton</p>
<p>UCSD’s econ program isn’t very heavily impacted so it should be relatively easy to get into as well. Management science is basically econ on steroids and is oriented towards determining how one should manage an operation.</p>
<p>sample schedule for the next 2 years for leaving options open</p>
<p>F2010
Trig, English 101A, Micro and Macroecon and History of Rock n Roll on my schedule. </p>
<p>S2011
Calc1, English2/philosophy(if offered as equivalent), </p>
<p>summer2011
accounting 1</p>
<p>F20111
calc2
accounting 2</p>
<p>S2012
calc3, statistics</p>
<p>summer 2012
linear alg</p>
<p>fill in from there with electives that fulfill IGETC. Basic electives would include a few easy science courses one of which has a lab a few sociology courses and a bit of a foreign language(going to the 2nd course in there is preferable) if you’re just doing regular econ, you could probably get away with not doing the math at the end, but remember you’ll need to do it eventually and it’s easier at a CC than at a uni. If you don’t want to do MS or Quant econ, don’t worry so much about calc3 or linear alg, you can do them at the UC(at least you can at UCI)</p>
<p>So basically, for econ, all I need to do is Calc I/II, both Econ courses, 2 english courses, and my IGETC and I’m pretty set for all the UC’s? And for Business, Accounting and Stats in addition to all that?</p>
<p>I can assure you that fitting all your classes in two years is definitely possible and more importantly, doable. I, amongst many other people, were able to finish all the prerequisites for Econ and Business (even Math/Econ had I planned my schedules more carefully or chose not to take Jap 1 & 2). However, it seems like you have an aversion toward math classes; in that case, I can see why you would be hesitant to take those Calculus classes.</p>
<p>Not really. But I was never really good at math. Never took any form of Calc, so honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle higher Calc classes. But ya know, you gotta do what you gotta do. I just don’t want to overload on these classes and end up with a schedule that’s too hard for me.</p>
<p>if you have a math aversion, skip the quant econ/operations management route and just go straight econ. Regular econ isn’t so bad in terms of math, it’s just the elaborate explanation of the obvious.</p>
<p>I see. I guess it’s just normal econ or business admin. for me then.
Do any of you know if CA privates have similar requirements? Such as USC, Santa Clara, USD.</p>
<p>it would be safe to assume that they are similar but different and that you should research each of the privates separately. Our state system is great and is simplified in many regards, but privates don’t have an assist.org (if they do though, that’s great.)</p>
<p>so in that sense the prereqs pretty much overlap though they mention business calc and not regular calc… it might be worth looking into that requirement…
no clue about USD or Santa Clara.</p>