<p>So I'm minoring in business and I need a Management class. I was thinking of taking NCC 5540 in the Johnson school, but apparently all classes are curved to a B+ and I don't want to have to compete with graduate students who specialize in that stuff...</p>
<p>I've heard AEM 1210 is horrible though.</p>
<p>well you can sign up for the course and drop it later if need be. </p>
<p>since you seem to ask many questions of this nature, I will give you some advice:</p>
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<li><p>Each semester, sign up for 1-2 more courses than you intend to finish.</p></li>
<li><p>Try to have a nice mix of easy vs medium difficulty courses, required vs elective courses, etc. Avoid math/ science - intensive courses at all costs if gpa is your primary concern.</p></li>
<li><p>Drop 1-2 classes with lowest grades/ hardest curves/ whatever after a couple of prelim exams.</p></li>
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<p>Disclaimer: I was an econ major and graduated with just above 3.6 gpa using the above method and I didn’t work really that hard at all while in college.</p>
<p>That seems kind of self-defeating because the extra effort needed for the 1-2 additional classes would lower your prelim scores to begin with.</p>
<p>I’ve already asked you this, but what did you get in Intermediate Micro, and did you consider it hard? I really regret taking that first semester because I got a bad grade in it which screwed up my GPA. Also, what are the easiest Econ classes? I’m doing Women in the Economy next semester.</p>
<p>I thought American Economic History would be easy, but it was actually pretty difficult.</p>
<p>U wot m8 I have one of the bad teachers and I currently have an A- in that class but I think an A is easily reachable.</p>
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<p>I got a B+ in that class. The class wasn’t very hard content wise, but the exams had a lot of curveballs and the course was curved a bit harshly imo.</p>
<p>Most econ classes not heavily dealing with math aren’t that hard. What you can do is to email professors or TA’s of prospective Econ classes about the level of math ‘aptitude’ required for success in that course, and these guys will give you an honest feedback. That way, you can effectively avoid any ‘hard’ econ courses, if you so desire.</p>
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<p>it’s a trade off. I thought it was worth it to work a bit harder first 1-2 months of school and drop the lowest grade courses later. it gave me more options to work with.</p>
<p>lastly - remember: cornell has a crap ton of courses to choose from. you’re an econ major correct? just browse through like hundreds of courses and cherry-pick fluff courses to boost your gpa. if you find most classes in econ to be hard, no big deal. just take only up to 8 econ courses over your entire cornell career, and fill the rest of course schedule with ‘intro to Chinese civilization’, ‘intro sociology’, ‘intro gender studies’, and other bull $hit classes. </p>
<p>just work smart, and you shall achieve high gpa.</p>
<p>btw, i would be shocked if any classes in any school’s mba program is any hard. i’d imagine it would be easier than econ courses at undergrad level.</p>
<p>i know a fair share of mba students at the school i attend now. my school has a top mba program, yet the mba guys i know do everything but study. </p>
<p>at my school’s law school library, you will see that the library is literally full of stressed out, freaked-out, very serious-looking students cramming every last piece of material into their heads diligently.</p>
<p>you go to the mba school library, you will see that it is basically empty. and there are occasionally beer bottles rolling around.</p>
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What does “U wot m8” mean?</p>
<p>Is it really worth trading away your education for a GPA, though? I hear only law schools actually care about GPA. (And medical schools too, but I’m not STEM.) I heard things like business school and Wall Street just use it as a pre-screening tool.</p>
<p>Why do you want to be a lawyer when the market is so saturated and the work is so tedious?</p>
<p>Also, how hard is Applied Econometrics? My plan is do that my last semester so it doesn’t affect my GPA for job recruitment.</p>
<p>I don’t know, I felt like Micro was all math. It seemed like one of those classes you couldn’t really study for.</p>
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<p>depends on your goals.</p>
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<p>false. with non-top gpa, you won’t likely to even get an interview from firms and positions you seem to have in mind.</p>
<p>keep in mind that i-banking and consulting recruiters don’t give a rat’s a$$ about what courses you took in college, nor do they care about what you majored in during college.</p>
<p>i know plenty of art history, sociology, english, and hotel school kids now working in i-banking and top management consulting.</p>
<p>what matters is your gpa, work experience, and networking skills.</p>
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<p>applied econometrics wasn’t that hard. it was easier than microecon, game theory, etc. but not easy either. i’d say medium difficulty within econ department.</p>
<p>i gotta repeat… if you are that concerned about having a top gpa yet you don’t have enough talent to ace hard’ classes, just take easy fluff classes and call it day. </p>
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<p>dude, good luck finding a lucrative job right out of college with an econ degree that comes with ‘fun’ work. i chose law because i got into a top school that will enable me to earn 160k a year at age 25. </p>
<p>for the record, you will find that the work in i-banking isn’t exactly ‘fun’ either. actually, anyone that thinks that the work you’d do at a bank is fun is a terrible idiot.</p>
<p>Applied econometrics is supposed to be super easy because i think the first class is 3110 which is the non-multivariable stats class. </p>
<p>I was originally planning to be an engineer so I might be biased though.</p>
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I’m also a College Scholar, which means I don’t have distribution requirements. Why am I even majoring in Econ if it doesn’t help me and I don’t like the material? I could just take all Government classes and it wouldn’t make a difference? I guess it’s too late to turn back now and I might as well suck it up and finish the four electives + applied econometrics. </p>
<p>Are Big Law firms even hiring anyone outside of the top 10% of top law school classes? And I heard you have to work like 70 billable hours a week.</p>
<p>At my law school, 70%+ of the class got Biglaw. </p>
<p>Being an econ major doesn’t help at all with getting jobs over other liberal arts degrees. for wall st jobs, your choice of major doesn’t matter at all.</p>
<p>go log on to on-campus recruiting website and search for your self. you will realize that i-banking and consulting firms accept job applications from pretty much any major on campus.</p>
<p>you should major in econ if you enjoy the material, not because of the wrong belief that it will help you get a job in finance. because it won’t. </p>
<p>honestly, you should do some research on the careers that you want to go into and figure out how to get there most efficiently man.</p>