<p>hello all,</p>
<p>my brother is considering Penn as possibly an ED school, but has one small road block. He’s really undecided what to do for a major, but keeps getting the “I’m not gonna pay $50,000 for you to be undecided” crap from our mom, so he’s probably going to have to put something down on paper (unless I can convince her otherwise). How easy is it to major in something like econ (something he likes) but take more general out of major courses so he can explore a bit?</p>
<p>Any insight would be great. thanks!!</p>
<p>Very, he could very easily take courses freshman year that get a lot of graduation requirements out of the way, and the requirements are broad enough that many courses will fill one or another (they've restructured the requirements since i was a freshman; i think they've made them fewer actually). Compared to a lot of other schools I've seen, the actual course requirements for a Penn major are somewhat smaller, so starting right in to your major isn't really a concern. For something like econ in particular, he'd only have to take one course a semester freshman year, if that; the intro econ classes in particular are ones that many students choose to take as free electives anyway</p>
<p>A major is only something like 12 courses.</p>
<p>poly sci only needs 8 core classes and 4 related ones. econ major is harder here after they revamped it like half a decade ago.</p>
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