<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>
<p>I’ll try to shed some light - there will be a noticeable different in intro and intermediate, but I also had the same grades as you in macro and micro elements and ended up with A’s in both intermediates - the material will be harder but it will also have a lot of the same students who you beat out to get an A in intro.</p>
<p>One thing to note though is that depending on the school, intermediate micro might require calculus (it definitely should require it). I don’t know where you go and if intermediate micro requires it, but you will probably want to have a decent grasp of derivatives (calc1) before you take intermediate. But your grades look good so far. Intermediate macro you could probably get away with not knowing calculus for.</p>
<p>At the University of Texas, you need to have completed multivariate calculus in order to register for second year economics. It will really depend on the college.</p>
<p>At my school, Intro was basically vocab words, a little supply/demand graphs, and a little bit of mathematical problems (multiplication and divison). Intermediate was all graphs and calculus (more graphs than clac). I ended up getting A’s in both classes, but Intermediate was a lot harder.</p>
<p>Before you pass over English or another humanities field as an easy field, let me warn you - those classes can be very time consuming.</p>
<p>I used to be an Engineering major, and I had taken math up to Calc 2 and Linear Algebra. I switched to English out of greater interest in the subject and not due to lack of ability, and I found myself spending as much time reading/paper writing as doing problem sets. The notion that the humanities are easier stems from the fact that are so many valid ways to ‘answer a problem’, but at my program at least, there is not too much grade inflation. There are slackers in my classes who get by on skimming the readings and using Sparknotes, but most of them will get Cs, and at best, Bs. The act of creating and understanding literary analysis is often slow, tedious and obscure, but rewarding for the reason that debating and expousing original ideas is intrinsically rewarding.</p>
<p>Besides, everyone knows that the hot chicks major in Sociology or Communications :).</p>