<p>Will a double major in Econ and EE help get a student into econ grad school as opposed to just majoring in Econ? I have read that econ grad school admissions committees like people that are more quantitative than just the normal B.S. in Econ.. I know EE would qualify as being more quantitative, but is it helpful?</p>
<p>The quantitative part of EE would help, but I don't really know if there's much of a relationship between the pure EE courses and econ. There would be a closer relationship if you were doing Industrial Engineering though.</p>
<p>You could try looking into a Math/Econ program or an Econ/Stats program. Sometimes in engineering you don't have the time to have a double major in something else and it generally kills your GPA.</p>
<p>i'm already in the engineering school and dont really wanna switch out... also i can double major without overloading any one semester b/c of AP credit.</p>
<p>I've looked into a bunch of graduate econ programs and most of them state that it's not a requirement to major in econ. The only econ classes you really need to take to be competitive is Intermediate Microeconomics and Intermediate Macroeconomics. Of course, you'll need to take the preceding intro classes first. Extra econ classes are encouraged, but not necessary. Besides the intermediate macro/microecon classes, you need to take some serious math:</p>
<p>Multivariable Calc
Linear Algebra
Differential Equations
Statistics (the kind in the mathematics dept., not stats for social sciences)
Probability
Real Analysis - supposed to be ridiculously hard but is a major part of graduate econ</p>
<p>This website gives a good overview on graduate econ admissions:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.econphd.net/guide.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.econphd.net/guide.htm</a></p>
<p>awesome post, thanks a bunch!</p>