Intro vs Intermediate Econ HELP

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<p>What is the degree of difference in difficulty between the two levels?</p>

<p>I'm deciding if I want to pursue an Economics major. For my intro courses, I received an A(Macro) and an A+(Micro). However, for my Intro to Statistics Course (a 300 level econ class), I just scraped away with an A-. I also have not taken calculus.</p>

<p>I do not intend on continuing an education in Economics post BA. I have always had an interest in the financial structure of systems and how they are relevant to ideologies, especially how economics is used for the US nation and its states.</p>

<p>((I'm worried about whether my gpa would slip, and whether I would have enough time that I could dedicate to out-of-school activities which are very important to me.</p>

<p>Otherwise, I may just cop out by taking up English as a major, which is very easy to me and I enjoy literature very much and there are a lot of chicks, but I find the classes unpleasant due to the students and some reading materials.))</p>

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<p>At U of IL neither was all that much harder. The math is pretty basic compared to a decent stat or calculus course(i.e. not one that’s billed as Math For Dummies). If you are really concerned this isn’t the place to look, ratemyprofessor.com is.</p>

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<p>Intro is very basic information. You can memorize the basic formulas and recognize graphs.</p>

<p>Intermediate is a bit more math oriented. You work with some calculus when doing Int. Macro and Micro but not that much. Its fairly straight foward. As long as you can take the derivative you should be fine</p>