<p>Assume I'm accepted (transfer) to L&S for Fall 2012.</p>
<p>If all goes according to plan, to declare as an econ major in my first semester I will need to take:
second semester Calculus
Statistics 20, 21, or 25
Intermediate Economic Theory
and probably a polisci class for my alternate</p>
<p>I'm trying to gain perspective on the difficulty/methodology of UCB classes. I'm not the greatest mathematician but I'm motivated. Will my GPA be shattered? Will the upper-div econ classes kick my ass? Will the quantitative aspects be too much for this overachieving white male from middle-america?</p>
<p>Berkeley has a reputation, whether deserved or not, and I'm a bit unsure of myself.</p>
<p>stats is basic math. it isn’t difficult in that sense, but it can be incredibly hard since it is easy to mess up on calculations when typing into your calculator. and no partial credit…because you can’t show your work (at least for me, my professor just wants the answer and nos cratch work to be seen).</p>
<p>calculus is calculus. not sure what to say. if you understand antiderivs, integrals, etc. you are good.</p>
<p>Honestly, taking all three of these classes (meaning calc, stats, and intermediate econ) in your first semester here will make for a difficult academic transition, especially depending on how good at math you are. The intermediate economics class will be your most difficult, and both that class and stats are notorious for their curves since they are also Haas Business School pre-requisites. If possible, I’d try to finish your calculus class before you come because you may need to take the stats class (which needs to be calculus-based) and the intermediate econ class at Berkeley.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure you need to have your second semester of calculus done before you transfer (unless you’re a freshman). Stats is pretty easy and does not use any calculus (at least so far for me). I’m taking Intermediate Micro (100A) and it’s pretty math intensive (101A is even more from what I hear). This class is a monster and goes at incredible pace. Our last midterm was out of 80 (our class average was 32). This has been my most challenging class to date (other than calc) :/</p>
<p>I’m gonna try to get calculus done here at CC but it’ll be a squeeze. Depending on how well I do, I’ll probably just end up sticking to the social sciences.</p>
<p>The Berkeley career center shows most economics majors going into banking/finance as analysts. It makes sense that you’d need a very strong calculus base. (ex. google “finance and calculus” and read the first pdf)</p>