<p>My high school AP calc teacher keeps telling me that I'll have to take more calc classes in college like calc 3 or something like that. Is it true I'll have to use stuff like calc in financing/econ classes?</p>
<p>I don't know about finance majors, but in my college, the econ major requires just calc 1 & 2 (single-variable calculus). For the actual econ courses, you'll be using mostly algebra, differential calculus, and some integration.</p>
<p>For graduate-level finance and econ, you will need a lot of advanced math, to the extent that it is highly advisable to minor (or double major) in math if you plan on doing a Master's/PhD in finance or economics.</p>
<p>by calc 1 and 2, is that equilvelant to AP Calc AB and BC?</p>
<p>Yes, I believe so.</p>
<p>Edit: In my college, a score of 5 on the AB exam or 4 on the BC exam gives you credit for Calc 1, while a score of 5 on the BC exam gives you credit for Calc 1 and 2.</p>
<p>It depends on the college. Some require you take Multivariable (Calc 3) (Columbia and Princeton to name two), others Integral Calculus (Calc 2), and some only require Calc 1. Some places (Columbia as an example) only require you take Calc 1 and Calc 3 (not Calc 2).</p>
<p>Calculus III and Linear Algebra can be useful if you have to take a mathematical statistics course as there are double integrals sprinkled around in the course. That's assuming that you're required to take mathematical statistics.</p>
<p>it depends on the college you will attend but most definitley yes. A lot economics stuff, such as upperdivision ( 3rd and 4th year college ) econ classes, like macro, micro, and specially econometrics classes use heavy calculus, or at least calculus forms. I attend UCSD with an econ major and CALC 1, 2 and 3 are required classes. Finance essentially depends on the same stuff for financial modeling and analysis and all that.</p>