<p>Hello,
I just wanted to ask if anyone knows how easy/hard it is to be able to declare Economics as your major. On the department website, it says minimum 3.0 GPA and those with 3.1 GPA or below must list an alternate major. I'm a sophomore. What was your GPA in the prereqs that got you in? (Or did not get you in?)</p>
<p>Bump (even if it’s a new thread, lol) because I’m also very interested in this. I’m a freshman, intended Econ/Enve. Econ, and I kinda screwed up my first semester. </p>
<p>PS: Intended Econs unite!</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of someone not getting in. The GPA cap is mainly there to deter the biggest slackers from applying because it’s such a popular major. If you’re genuinely interested in the material, you could probably get in with less than a 3.0. That being said, if you’re in the low 3.0 range to begin with, you may want to reconsider declaring econ to begin with. The pre reqs aren’t the hardest classes out there, and material difficulty only gets harder, although the professors are generally more generous with the grading distribution once you pass intermediate micro/macro.</p>
<p>When I applied last spring it was a hard-and-fast rule, if you had >3.0 in the pre-reqs (other classes didn’t matter) you were definitely in, I think if you missed you could write a letter of appeal or something. </p>
<p>The way I understand it, the “list an alternate major if your GPA is below 3.1” thing really matters only if you were completing a pre-req that semester (i.e. you wouldn’t know if you got into the major until after the semester, so your Econ GPA could fall below 3.0) and thus forces you to consider what you’d do if you didn’t get in.</p>