<p>I am an international in Taiwan. I am very interested in U of C 's economics major.</p>
<p>And, that's what the school says,</p>
<p>"Only a handful of majors in the humanities and social sciences require an application to their programs. Students are not required to make a final decision about their major until the third year of study, after they have completed the Core."</p>
<p>Anyone majoring in economics please tell me how competitive it is to apply economics major!</p>
<p>Also, does anyone attend Chicago Careers in Business(CCIB)?
Please tell me what you benefited from this program and how hard to apply it!</p>
<p>The economics major is not one of the majors you have to apply to. That doesn't mean it isn't difficult-- the challenge of the courses are self-selecting. As far as I know the only majors that require applications are the New Collegiate Division ones (Fundamentals, Law Letters) and Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. </p>
<p>Chicago Careers in Business is a selective program run jointly through the career office and the Booth School of Business. It's also relatively recent. My understanding of CCiB is that it accepts students from all majors and helps give students who are hardcore about being in business red carpet treatment. However, it sounds like the core components of the program (resume help, networking, and cross-registration into Booth courses) are available outside of the program as well. CCiB can help centralize those resources, but they're not exclusive resources to CCiB students.</p>
<p>They control numbers by using weed out courses. The undergraduate program director for economics (Grace Tsiang) said so directly to the student newspaper, citing the need to match majors to a fixed number of faculty (who already have rather expansive undergraduate teaching duties). </p>
<p>The most recent attempt is upping the caliber of the statistics class required to get the major, which is graded rather harshly and is generally loathed by students on account of the jumbled content. The first multivariate calculus course also can be foreboding for the people coming out of plain vanilla calculus, whereas the linear algebra course that follows is markedly simpler.</p>