<p>anybody majoring in econ...</p>
<p>what is the material like? math, reading, etc etc?
average gpa for econ majors?</p>
<p>are econ majors typically "happy" with what they're doing?</p>
<p>any feeback on the major would be helpful</p>
<p>tons of math.</p>
<p>Yeah, but nothing scary, not even integration, it's pretty basic math</p>
<p>Avg GPA of econ majors?</p>
<p>maxx99,</p>
<p>There's some integration at higher levels, but nothing too nasty in the first few econ courses.</p>
<p>You'd be amazed how mathy things get with really advanced econ work. I'm talking Amartya Sen level stuff...:p</p>
<p>I totally believe that, but I was talking more about Econ 11 and 101 and I think those were also the courses Malishka was referring to.</p>
<p>True. And while I didn't major in econ at UCLA, I'm fairly certain (correct me if I'm wrong) that you will do some integration in the upper-div coursework for the major.</p>
<p>But integration isn't, in itself, that overly difficult. </p>
<p>Besides, you can always just plug it into Stata... ;)</p>
<p>I think a lot of people are afraid of integration for no reason. Plus, if you're an econ major, you had to take one year of calculus and should be able to integrate.</p>
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<p>Stata fears no integration!</p>
<p>Okay, that horse is dead and beaten...</p>
<p>I agree. All I meant was that econ, while fairly mathier (new word) than history or poli sci, is not overly mathy.</p>
<p>hehe, I agree and I think it's that "mathiness" that makes econ students fairly competitive for jobs in the financial services industry, unless of course they only rely on Stata and can't do any calculations themselves :)</p>
<p>i dont know if its true but i heard the bus econ majors dont need as much math as econ majors.</p>
<p>maxx99,</p>
<p>Well actually... once you get the basic groundwork figured out, most jobs don't really care how you do the calculations. In fact, I'd say that someone who can do Excel and Stata will get the job over the person who has the slightly better theoretical foundation. But that's just my opinion. </p>
<p>But yeah, econ is, in my opinion, probably the best social science major for someone looking at a potentially broad area of jobs. It's got the writing and math components down. I wish that undergrad poli sci at UCLA would spend more time teaching number crunching than they do, as it's necessary for any poli sci grad student.</p>
<p>Jason,
I'm not positive, but I think that the number of upper division econ courses is similar in both majors. I believe econ majors actually are more free to choose the courses they wanna take, while biz econ students have to take certain ones like 103, 106 etc, plus 4 upper division accounting courses.</p>
<p>ive been looking at some of the material covered in some lower div classes...and there is a lot more math involved than what i did for ap econ...i was pretty surprised.</p>
<p>anyways, Go BRUINS! Beat Stanford!</p>
<p>btw, anyone know if econ and history majors are compatible?</p>
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<p>What, like Libras and Virgos?</p>
<p>Umm...I think you can make that work. But not much course overlap there to help reduce the units...</p>