<p>I have never taken an Economic course in high school because my school does not offer any of it. My school only has a rigorous IB curriculum that offers intense math, English, languages, and the sciences. All of the basics.</p>
<p>Do you think I can do well if I opt for an Economic major at Chicago?</p>
<p>Almost no one takes economics in HS. You will be fine.</p>
<p>are the econ classes… really hard? since i have no idea what i would like to do, might wanna try econ out.</p>
<p>I haven’t taken the intro micro/macro courses here, but I speculate that it’s not too intense. Currently, I am enrolled in ECON 200, an intermediate microeconomics class that usually follows the intro courses and is part of a 4-quarter sequence. I never payed much attention in AP Econ my junior year (ended up with double 4’s on the AP exam, which is pretty terrible) but I don’t find ECON 200 that intense. However, it also depends on the instructor. From what I can tell, Victor Lima is a very good lecturer who assigns hard psets and tests (he is not teaching 200 this quarter). Although I know only a very little amount of econ at the moment, I think that if you make an effort to understand and reproduce the economic reasoning that you’ll encounter, you’ll find that the learning curve in many cases is not too steep.</p>
<p>Also, don’t worry too much about the math needed for econ. Don’t quote me on this, but I think you’ll be hard pressed to find any math more advanced than what you would encounter in a typical multivariable calc book (stewarts for instance). However, if you like math, but would like to focus on devote a lot of time towards econ, I would recommend taking Honors Calculus your first year.</p>