<p>I'm pretty sure I'm going to major in economics, but there is so much more room in my schedule to do other things (because the economics major at Cal only requires approximately 8 classes or so, to my knowledge). Does anyone have any advice on what they did aside from economics course requirements to take up their time that would be conducive to making myself appealing for both employers and grad school?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>For graduate school in economics, take additional math and statistics courses as described [url=<a href=“http://econ.berkeley.edu/grad/admissions/preparation]here[/url”>Preparation | Department of Economics]here[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“http://sites.google.com/site/markborgschulte/berkeleyclassesirecommend]here[/url”>Mark Borgschulte, University of Illinois - berkeleyclassesirecommend]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>For employment, it depends on what kind of employment you are interested in.</p>
<p>A few things to consider are applying for Haas if you’re interested in business (Haas only requires one additional pre-requisite above the econ pre-requisites: UGBA 10), statistics if you want a social science and mathematical complement to economics (your major in statistics can have its “cluster” in economics), CS if you want a technical background (though I’m not sure how well the required courses align with one another in terms of fitting everything together).</p>
<p>I plan on doing econ and double in applied math (where my “cluster” of courses will most likely be in econ)</p>
<p>Great! Thank you so much for your input.</p>