<p>Hey! </p>
<p>If you plan to major in econ, are you required to take Econ 201 and 202 even if you have 5's on the AP Econ exams? Or do you begin with upper level classes? </p>
<p>Also, is it possible to skip 201 and 202 if you only have a 4 on one of the exams? I scored a 5 on macro and a 4 on micro, so would I have to take micro again??</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!!</p>
<p>im going to be an econ major and got 5's in both macro and micro. im pretty sure you place out of 201 and 202 with 5's only. im going to skip these intro classes and jump straight into 310-1 even though some ppl on this site said to still take intro classes since they are with great professors and its NU econ, not HS econ. in your situation, you will have to take micro again. (unless there is some sort of placement test?)</p>
<p>check this out for some more opinionshttp: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=346028%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=346028</a></p>
<p>i'm not sure if they allow it but i would urge you to strongly, strongly consider taking them anyway, you will find college econ is much more intense than high school econ, especially at northwestern, and also.. the 310, 311 classes are... HARD, you will seriously want to catch up and also pad your GPA a little bit with the lower-level econ classes before jumping into 300 level stuff.</p>
<p>that being said i'd be surprised if they even let you place out of the 200 level classes, high school econ (the whole year) is like the first week of college econ, as i understand high school econ is very conceptual, and concepts are sort of only the starting point of college econ, they go into a lot of numbers, calculations, formulas, complicated systems (where the dead-weight loss occurs, how it is decided who pays for it, etc.)</p>