<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am curious if anyone can give me advice; I am a somewhat recent college grad with a keen interest in studying economics or business. I think I'm mostly interested in economics but I've never studied it formally only as an amateur hobby. </p>
<p>I graduated two years ago from college with a BA from Sarah Lawrence, as a music major (although technically Sarah Lawrence doesn't have majors). I can't remember what my GPA was but I think somewhere in the mid-low 3s. Anyway, about a year out of school, I accidentally read a book by Thomas Sowell and now have an amateur obsession with economics. Pretty much all my fantasies lately involve being alone in a room somewhere studying economics all day.</p>
<p>I understand that to study economics at the graduate level I'd have to seriously re-tool my undergraduate education. For example my math is only up to very basic algebra, and I've never actually taken an economics undergraduate course. If I was serious about doing this, should I go back to school as an undergrad? or perhaps do some sort of post-BA program? Perhaps, I could go somewhere and pretty much take all math and economics undergrad courses and finish in a couple of years as opposed to having to redo the full undergraduate experience--since I already did that? How would I go about doing this? Where would be a good place to go? It sounds pretty expensive to go back to undergrad.</p>
<p>I was thinking of getting my feet wet by taking some night classes at the University of New Mexico while I'm working, since I live in New Mexico at the moment, or the terrible community college in my area, and then if I'm still interested trying to go back to school full time? or should I try to go to a "better" school? I have no idea if UNM is considered ok or not.</p>
<p>As far as business school goes I'm curious if what I'm doing now would count as ok work experience; At the moment I'm working on a extremely small real estate development business that I started with my semi-retired step-uncle, who used to be a successful developer. I'm not completely sold on this business being what I want to do long term but I hope, that if I am successful at it, it would be good work experience for eventually going to business school, or are they interested in something different? </p>
<p>Anyway, I'm sorry for such a long post, my questions boil down to A.) Do I have any chance at all of ever getting into a good economics program? B.) Do I need to do a full time post-bachelorite program somewhere and if so where? how would I go about that? Would I have to take the SATs again (god forbid)? C.) If it turns out my real passion is entrepreneurship would spending years and years trying to get my economics up to snuff and then going on to study it on the graduate level be a massive distraction or could the two somehow relate, i.e. studying economics with some kind of business/finance focus? </p>
<p>Thanks so much! I basically just really miss being a student and would like to be a student for as long as possible. Sorry if these questions are very naive! Thanks again!!</p>
<p>Best, Luke</p>