<p>I will be a senior next year and I will be applying to Michigan. I might go into business. I took AP Micro/Macro this year in school and took the APs. At the time I didn't think there was a chance I would be doing business, so I blew off the exams. I'm guessing I got no higher than a 3 on both. Would it be worth my time to retake the exams in May or should I repeat the classes in college? How difficult are Micro/Macro at Michigan?</p>
<p>well...Econ 101 and 102 will try you academically every much...but i'm not sure if they are worth the 80 bucks again. I'll say this...its not like you'll be the 1st freshman to take Econ 101, so don't feel bad if you take it here...just know that it'll be fairly difficult, even for the most gifited students.</p>
<p>KB</p>
<p>Edit to kb's post: I know a lot of students at Michigan who consider 101/102 a joke. Maybe they're the "most gifted" and maybe they're not, but know that it isn't hard for the "most gifted". I can't give you much personal experience beyond that because I haven't taken them.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't think many of the engineers taking the class for their business requirement have any problem with it. My roommate was an engineer and spent less than half an hour a week doing stuff for the class (he studied for exams while walking there), and I'm pretty sure he got at least a B.</p>
<p>I had a solid A/A- the whole semester, and still ended up with a B+ after totally bombing the final (combination of not paying attention the last third of the semester and not being able to study until the day of the exam because of work overload in the rest of my classes). Never paid attention to the lectures, never read the book, spent about an half an hour most weeks looking at the homeworks, and I went to discussion most weeks.</p>
<p>So although a majority of the people do find the class difficult and struggle with it, the only thing "gifted" people struggle with is bringing themselves to do anything for the class. None of the concepts are terribly difficult, and most of them are pretty intuitive.</p>
<p>If I were to take the exams again and get a 4 or 5, I would obviously choose not to take the classes in college. Do you think that AP Micro/Macro prepare you well enough for the classes which Econ 101 and 102 are prereqs?</p>
<p>I should say I ran for MSA while taking 101 and got a B+, so maybe its difficulty was augmented by the very little time I spent working with it. The class material is in no way itself difficult, but the exams are fairly tricky in my opinion (the b-school has to separate the men from the boys somehow).</p>
<p>And regardless of what John Nash and co up there say, there is wide consensus aomg UM students that econ 101 is one of the most difficult classes for freshman, but so many people have to take it that it just becomes a fact of life. Just my humble observations....</p>
<p>KB</p>
<p>what about the international baccalaureate econ course.. if i end up getting a 6 or 7 in the IB econ exam.. would it be enough to satisfy my econ 101 requirement?</p>
<p>Econ 101 is not very difficult it just depends on who your professor is. In my class THERE IS NO WAY you can fail the midterm and end up a B+. My class had 2 exams that were cumulative. The midterm covered the first 8 and the final covered all 16 chapters</p>