<p>So in the first marking period I was doing great in economics the major i want to pursue in college. but not i have been getting below 60's on all my tests. My average is a 75 as of right now for economics in the 2nd marking period. I have one more marking period to go. Will colleges see my 2nd marking period grades after I have been accepted or only the finalized grade on my transcript? And when do colleges rescind?</p>
<p>Once accpeted I dont think they check besides some random ones. Also colleges only see final grades, not progress. I think you should be more worried about rethinking your major. I don’t think they would rescind for one C, maybe a warning. Then if you got a C/D next semester maybe (but I still don’t think) they would rescind. </p>
<p>Edit: Economics is a very theoretical study and it’s one of those things people seem to either get or struggle with. I too applied for economic and my current testing average is 101%. I also study less and put in a significant less amount of effort in compared to my peers. Edit 2: that wasnt supposed to come across as braggy; I was just trying to express that you should try to figure out why you’re getting 75 percents in the easiest level class of what you want to major in. People who truly understand economics from what I have seen can pull off high grades with minimum effort. (In AP Econ)</p>
<p>@Cornell19: If you are pulling off high grades with minimal effort in ap econ, your class isn’t very good, in my opinion. I study hours for every test to earn my 90s in that class. I’d love to know how you find the AP, as I speculate your class is much easier than it should be. </p>
<p>@jamesjunkers why do you say that? A fair amount of the students get 5s in both Macro and Micro tests, and our pass rate is well over 90%. Econ is on of those classes that if you can truly understand it, coming to class and paying attention is enough.</p>
<p>Edit: I understand your point if the whole class was also getting hundreds on the test with no study. That’s not the case, a lot of my classmates are getting Ds and Cs on the test. But there’s a few people who consistently get hundreds with minimal effort. </p>
<p>@Cornell19, through my AP’s last year, I learned one thing. The difficulty of the class translates to your score on the test. </p>
<p>BC Calculus was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I struggled to get 90s, and most of the time did not. However, I found the AP very doable</p>
<p>Statistics was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. I got a 100 on every test without studying for a second, yet the AP was nearly impossible for me</p>
<p>@jamesjunkers Your understanding of the marerials translates to your score. If you just memorize stuff then yeah it might be difficult. But if you can get it on a conceptual level then it’s extremely easy. Like for Econ if you just try to memorize that anything beneath AVC is shutdown point etc, then it might be difficult and overwhelming. But if you understand that shut down point is beneath AVC because that’s where the area of loss box becomes greater than the costs you would lose by shutting down, then it’s easy.</p>
<p>You’re trying to say that ap econ involves no memorization? Product Markets (monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic completion, perfect completion) alone consists of about 20 unique graphs. Yes, you can try to understand, but there is memorization involved too. </p>
<p>If you can’t easily get 'A’s and 5s in AP Econ, then you shouldn’t major in economics. AP Econ is an absolute joke compared to the 3000-level classes at Cornell. I wouldn’t do it unless you easily scored a 5 in BC.</p>