<p>I'm in incoming freshmen looking to be an Econ Major. I got 5s on both Maco/Micro which got me out of Econ 1/2 (i think). But my counselor told me I should probably take them anyways since you learn different material than you did in AP. Also, she said to wait until at least Sophomore year to take Econ 1/2 (or the higher classes) since they are very difficult. Do you guys back up this advice? Is it worth retaking 1/2?</p>
<p>My situation doesn’t match yours but I’ll chime in. I took Econ 1/2 at a CC where the tests given basically matched the practice test given before the exam. Basically it was an automatic A class. I did fine in all my other econ courses despite not really learning anything. </p>
<p>So I don’t feel you should take 1/2 again. Maybe you should wait until Sophomore year to take harder econ courses, but honestly the difficulty increase isnt like a whole new world.</p>
<p>retaking 1/2 is good cause it get you familiar with the college courses (teaching and grading system). I don’t think you need to wait till sophomore cause Counselor usually just overstates the difficulty of the classes!
I disagree with people who said they learned nothing from econ classes. Yes, you will learn a lot about theory which I don’t really like also, but you learn the way how to think and that’s how u can learn other things faster and easier in the future. In addition, there are many influential professor in Econ Department.</p>
<p>Well, what I meant about not learning anything was when I took Econ 1/2 at a CC =x. That’s why I didn’t learn anything, lol.</p>
<p>LISTEN. Econ 1 and 2 are jokes at UCLA too. They are like intro^3 econ courses. You should jump right into Econ 11, and take Board in the Fall. If you don’t get weeded out after the first midterm, THEN you might be able to make as an Econ major at UCLA. Best of luck.</p>
<p>BTW, 1000th post, w00t!</p>
<p>It is funny because I think professors teach really differently in Econ classes for the same topic. My friend who took Macro just learn the stuff in my 160 (money and Banking) instead of the basic such as Monetary Policy, Fiscal, GDP gap, Multipliers … weird</p>