<p>I'm considering graduate work in economics, which I understand requires me to take a lot of math. Would I have enough room in my schedule while at ILR to take enough math classes? The amount of math would be more or less an unnamed math major.</p>
<p>I LOVE that it's easy to do research at ILR, and that it's even encouraged.
But do you guys think ILR will be too focused on the labor economics and not enough on the financial economics for broad study in graduate economics?</p>
<p>I guess I can always get a masters in stat after ILR too.</p>
<p>I understand that graduate study is far away and I may even end up not doing it all, but I'm just considering my possibilities.</p>
<p>At the very least, you’ll be taking Intro to Microecon and Macroecon in your freshman year (unless you AP-out).</p>
<p>Statistics is usually taken either second semester freshman year or at some point in your sophomore year. </p>
<p>You’ll then take Labor Economics in sophomore year.</p>
<p>After that, you have a lot of room to pursue whatever you want. A lot of ILR students choose to pursue an economics minor, in which you must take intermediate and above level courses. </p>
<p>There’s certainly room to pursue math courses (if that’s what you want to do).</p>
<p>@redambassador
Awesome. I’m so glad I applied to ILR. c:</p>
<p>@kibt
I looked up the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology. Unfortunately, biology is the one subject that makes me churn in agony. But I’m still interested in a lot of the applied math and computer science courses. And the Statistical Service opportunities are EXACTLY what I want. Thanks!</p>
<p>There are so many ways I can pursue my studies at Cornell, and I know I can’t get to them all, but this is what I love about Cornell. ;w;</p>
<p>You’ll have plenty of room to take upper level economics and math courses in ILR. In fact, 16 of those math courses can actually be applied towards the ILR distribution credits:</p>
<p>A handful of recent ILR alumni have gone on for PhDs in economics at places like Stanford, MIT, and Michigan. Be sure to develop a good relationship with the labor economics professors.</p>
<p>my bad, I was actually on campus half of the weekend to attend to some important matters.</p>
<p>Regardless, I basically would have just posted what CayugaRed did. You’ll have plenty of room in your schedule to take math classes, though it’ll certainly be easier in your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year when you get some of the ILR requirements out of the way. And even if you eventually decide against your current career path, I still recommend taking some extra math classes. Not enough ILR students do (I didn’t)</p>