<p>How hard is the undergraduate business program? I'm thinking of doing marketing, and I'm pretty good in math/quantitative stuff.</p>
<p>bump....................There must be some Olin students here on CC. Please feel free to comment on the academic intensity.</p>
<p>bump..............</p>
<p>lol the running joke is that the "b-school is as easy as pre-school", but Olin is its own type of difficulty tho. Depends on wut type of student you are</p>
<p>JEFFwun, what do you mean? what kind of difficulty is Olin?</p>
<p>mm, a friend of mine in some intro to management course or something just had 70something pages of reading last night. Then again, I did too, for poli sci. Be ready to work in whatever you do, I guess.</p>
<p>Melanieeek,</p>
<p>I agree that one should be ready to work, but some disciplines are MUCH harder than other disciplines. For instance, doing engineering is not the same as doing History.</p>
<p>Well, of course they're not the same, but that doesn't mean that one is inherently harder than the other. I'd probably enjoy being a history major, but I'd hate engineering. Then again, a lot of the architecture kids (not engineering, but a lot of the intro-level classes are similar--calc, physics, etc) have a Western Civ requirement that they see as their hardest class. It's all relative, is what I'm saying. Don't be hatin' on the humanities.</p>
<p>I'm not hating on the humanities because I am in the humanities (English major). I'm thinking of doing business in combination with English.</p>
<p>Anyways, I heard that the bschool is not really hard in terms of getting a lot of work, but it's just hard in terms of the work that you do must be really innovative and creative. Also, someone told me that the enviroment is competitive meaning that each man steadily strives to better than the other man. I'm just wondering if there's any truth to this.</p>
<p>There's a lot of collaboration that goes on between students in the b-school - It's not an every man for himself environment. Some classes may be easier (i.e. "b-school calc" in artsci), but others such as economics are harder in the b-school. Accounting also tends to throw a real curveball at those who think it'll be easy. Some classes are easier than others, but I'd say no more than any ArtSci course.</p>
<p>oncampus, thanx a lot. The bschool class that I'm taking right now, MECO 290, is whopping my butt. Nothing that the teachers says makes sense. Hopefully, no other bschool will be that tortourous.</p>
<p>I took Micro in high school, got an A in the class, a 4 on the AP, worked my ass off in 290 and got a C+. I had McManus and was not a fan of him at all.</p>
<p>I have McManus also. I hate that class. Now, I'm scared. What made the class hard?</p>
<p>I can't understand why almost 700 people have viewed this, and less than 15 have replied. Someone must know something else.</p>
<p>My daughter's management class had their midterm last week. The median grade was a 65... that's out of 100, just in case you wondered.</p>
<p>Needless to say, it was a difficult test. </p>
<p>Considering the calibre of the students, the professor must have known that the students would score as they did... I'm not sure what lesson he is teaching, but he certainly got many kid's attention.</p>
<p>And, I think this is indication that the business school is not intended to be a cakewalk.</p>