<p>Oyama please stop being mean to people. Thanks.</p>
<p>so… i was kind of dumb this quarter and didn’t know that there was an honors class for econ 100/120 series, and I finished econ 1/3 and decided to just take econ 100a this quarter instead of waiting until fall to take it with the honors course. so basically… if i take econ 100b and bh in winter quarter next year, do you think i’ll be at a disadvantage to those who took 100ah in the fall?</p>
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<p>You’ll be at a disadvantage, yes, but I think it’s still manageable. I took 100CH and 120CH without taking the earlier ones; this just meant I did more homework earlier on in the quarter to catch up, which wasn’t bad at all. Most of the Honors classes are segmented, so there isn’t too much required overlap between different ones.</p>
<p>All right…I’m with Oyama on this. Cry anecdotal all you want, but from a reasonable perspective, Oyama has access to all the “factual” data that richard does but in addition actually went through it and has insight from professors, etc.</p>
<p>ItsRichardd: For future reference, Ad Hominem attacks usually reveal that you’re about to lose the argument.</p>
<p>itsrichardd: Are you attending UCSD? Class of '14?</p>
<p>If you want to go to grad school I would recommend the Math/Econ major or taking a math minor along with either of the econ of management sci majors. If you’re thinking about grad school you need to be good at math anyway and should take a few real analysis and linear programming classes to make you more attractive to grad schools.
Getting published doesn’t hurt either. Try taking a 150 class and asking your profs about how to get a paper published. I know Omicron Delta Epsilon lets their members publish economics research papers in their journals.</p>
<p>If you want to do micro or work private sector do management science.</p>
<p>If you want to do macro or try to work for the government do the econ major.</p>
<p>So it looks like this thread died a few months ago, I just wanted to clarify though:</p>
<p>Is management science a good major then? People have been ranting back and forth, so in the end, does it really “prepare for the MBA” and give you good job/internship prospects? Say if I wanted to get into finance, something like investment banking?</p>
<p>Or did I choose the wrong school?</p>
<p>^ i want to know more about this too.
im an incoming freshman so i definately dont know as much as Oyama seems to know. but it looks like the best way to figure this out is to talk it over with an advising counselor and figure out a career plan.</p>
<p>You can get an MBA with any major.</p>
<p>You can get a job in “business” with any major.</p>
<p>The only preferential treatment you’d get by being a BA major is if you go to a feeder school to banking/finance firms (LA/Anderson, Berkeley/Haas, UPenn/Wharton, NYU/Stern, MIT/Sloan, etc.).</p>
<p>Best preparation for an MBA would just to choose a major you like, exceed in it and get good grades, take an unpaid internship at a large, well-known corporation, and use that as a catalyst to land a paid position either in the same company or elsewhere. Networking is the biggest asset you can capitalize on as an undergrad. Paid positions at smaller firms won’t get you anywhere if an MBA (at a top 15 school)/6-figure job is your goal.</p>
<p>Why an unpaid internship? Why not paid? LOL</p>
<p>Well-established firms don’t normally offer paid internships since they have a bevy of qualified applicants willing to do it for free. The ones that pay tend to be startups and local established companies that don’t have any power outside of San Diego for networking.</p>
<p>I want to transfer from my community college into UCSD. I am still deciding whether to do Econ or Management Science, but if Economics has less classes that I need to take, couldn’t I just take a bunch of classes that are offered at the Rady School of Management. I emailed them and they told me "Once you are accepted to UCSD, you can then enroll in any undergraduate business or accounting course offered at the Rady School. My ultimate goal is to go to USC business school. So does it really matter what my major is, or should I just transfer as some BS major like history or Poly Sci and take a bunch of these classes offered at Rady. PLEASE HELP</p>
<p>[Rady</a> School: Undergraduate Program](<a href=“http://rady.ucsd.edu/undergrad/]Rady”>Rady School of Management)</p>
<p>You can major in whatever you want. If you want to get an MBA, just make sure you’re constantly working your way up competitive internships.</p>
<p>But in order to get into a competitive intern, who would want a History major over an Economics major.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/714409-why-you-should-major-economics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/714409-why-you-should-major-economics.html</a></p>
<p>found a pretty interesting thread about economics. check it out.</p>
<p>omar – during your undergrad, most employers won’t pay much attention to your major unless it has to do with technical knowledge (programming, lab techniques, statistical analysis, etc.). If you’re looking for an internship your first two years, your Economics coursework will barely differentiate you from a humanities major (this coming from a graduate from the Econ department). Your ability to sell yourself and overdeliver what’s expected of you at an internship is what will give you a leg up for a career in business–not your major.</p>
<p>This may be personal feel free to answer , but where are you right now that you have graduated from UCSD economics. Was it easy to find an internship, did you go to graduate school?</p>
<p>I’m working as a staff research associate at the Rady School for a year while applying to Ph.D. programs in Microeconomic Theory this fall. I’m hoping to get at least a couple of papers submitted to some mid-high ranked Economics journals before I send out applications to schools.</p>
<p>I took the business route early and didn’t really have problems finding internships/jobs. My first job at UCSD was Student Supervisor at UCSD Ventanas (after being a regular student worker), but after that I got a job as an Accounting/Auditing Internship.</p>
<p>Near the end of that stint was when I figured I wanted to pursue a career in academia moreso than business, so I started doing research in the Econ, Psyc, and Neuroscience departments, so for the past two years, I haven’t been looking for business-oriented positions.</p>
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