<p>I am a freshman at a top 50 LAC, and I am currently pre med. However, I am clueless about my major after wrapping up the first semester of college. I recently have struck a serious interest in economics. I am much more fascinated by the social science side of things. Though I love science, I think it would be exciting to study something like econ as an undergraduate. My questions regards to mathematics. I am in Calc I right now, which is the only calculus required for the econ major at my school, and I am looking at a solid "B". Is it acceptable for me to potentially major in economics but not be the biggest fan of mathematics? I know I would be a far cry from the my peers considering graduate school and enrolling in brain-wrenching upper level math courses. I acknowledge I would still have to take statistics and econometrics, but that doesn't sound too bad; it just isn't as appealing as classes like Labor Econ and Developmental Econ. Thoughts? Comments? Thanks.</p>
<p>As long as you know basic differentiation and integration, you should be fine. Although, if your interest are in the “social science side of things”, sociology might serve you better.
Econ will mostly consist of learning theories and doing problem sets.</p>
<p>Most schools have two paths for econ majors: quantitative and social-science. Most people take the social-science route in undergrad because the quantitative route is usually meant as preparation for the econ phd. There’s no reason to take all the upper-level math if you are pursuing an MD. That said, you mainly just need calc 1-2 and maybe 3 in some schools. Econ isn’t exactly the most hardcore math-discipline either, maybe of the social-sciences but still nothing like physics so you should be fine.</p>
<p>In fact, I think majoring in economics, even just the social-science side, is great for undergrad. You gain a better perspective in the world later on and you understand better about economic decisions made by the government later on as well as why recessions are happening and etc etc.</p>