<p>As a prospective economics majorer, I wish to get a more detailed insight towards the amount of number and quantative vigour in the Economics major? For those who are participating in this; are you struggling with the Mathematical content? If you are, how good would you say you were already at Math?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a challenging quantitative aspect to the Econ major, but as someone who dislikes math yet is taking the math-laden track, I can say it's definitely managable if you're diligent.</p>
<p>You must take a statistics course (which shouldn't be too bad) and you can take the theory-heavy math-lite micro/macro courses (Econ100 series instead of Econ101). The last hurdle is econometrics (Econ140 and 141), which I've been told is a doozie. If you can survive these classes and retain enough formulas and theories, then you'll be fine for the rest of your upper-divs.</p>
<p>Wilson, are you Canadian, Indian or British?</p>
<p>I was an econ minor and engineering major, so I had no problem with the math. I actually really liked that aspect of Econ, and took Mathematical Economics back in the day with Nobel prize Debreu.</p>
<p>I think you should try to conquer your fear of maths head-on, as laborious or daunting this may seem, because it will provide you with a more solid and initmate understanding of most basic (and complex) economic models.</p>