<p>My school doesn't offer econ. I'm thinking about taking them online during my senior year. I will take them from a college. I may or may not take the AP exam at the end. Please give me some suggestions. Are they hard? which one should I take first?</p>
<p>bump</p>
<p>To my knowledge, even though I am a freshie, I am taking macro first and I do think that one comes before micro</p>
<p>I took intro to micro over the summer at a local college and am now taking macro AP in my senior year of HS. I can’t give a solid evaluation of the difficulty because I don’t seem to be amongst the average of the students. I found both courses to be extrodinarily easy and I have high As in each, however my classmates in both my HS and the college found it rather difficult. On the micro midterm, the class average was a 69 and I got a 97. I don’t know the grade breakdown of my macro class but from hearsay it seems to be a similarly dismal distribution. It may be a way of thinking more than anything else. Most of the substance you need to know for the intro classes only require a very basic understanding of algebra and graphs, the difficulty may just come from the kind of mindset you need to approach the problems. It came easy to me, obviously it didn’t to others.</p>
<p>As for which to take first… I would personally say micro because I thought it was more interesting, thus more likely to get you into the subject, but there is no required order. Both classes start with exactly the same first few units which introduce you to basic economic theory required to study economics and then they diverge into their specific areas of study. So whichever you take first, you will be prepared for it.</p>
<p>I am in a full year class right now in school of AP Economics that does Micro, then Macro. I would recommend that order. </p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>Why would you take the courses from a college and then take the AP exam? Isn’t that a little redundant? You would get college credit by just taking the course(s)…</p>
<p>Unless the college you plan to enroll at later accepts AP, but won’t accept credit from the college you plan to take the courses at (some colleges don’t let credits from a two year school transfer, some won’t let dual enrollment courses transfer, etc.) I would just do the college class.</p>
<p>I’m actually having a second thought about it too. I may just take the course without taking the AP exam.</p>