<p>So how many classes should a freshman register? I've heard 4 or 5 is ideal. I just don't want to get myself swamped with work the first semester, specially since I'm an international so I'd like to have these first months in school to get acquainted with everything there. I'm going to major in econ, but I also want to apply for a double degree in wharton ( thats done sophmore year right?).</p>
<p>I was thinking about registering for basic german, math 103 ( my calculus prep sucks, so I'm going with the intro course), some random econ course asuming I place out of micro and macro, and some finance course ( but they all seem to require math 114 as a prereq, so I'll probably do stat instead). What do you guys think?</p>
<p>You want to transfer into Wharton? If you feel that you're calc prep was horrible, do 103 first semester and 104 second semester. Take econ 1 first semester and 2 second semester. Take german to get out of the language requirement. Take a writing seminar because you need that to graduate and then maybe another freshman seminar second semester that fulfills one of the graduation requirements. I think as SAS students, they capped us at 4.5 credits, so you can only take 4 classes max.</p>
<p>ok awesome thannks. Nope, I don't want to transfer into wharton, I'm interested in a double degree ( I want finance at wharton and econ at CAS), but my main interest in econ at CAS. Yeah, I think I'm gonna do that, math 103 first semester, elementary german ( I already speak a decent amount of german, but I haven't practiced in over a year), and hopefully I'll be able to place out of econ 1 and 2 with my IB credits, so I'll take another econ course. And also the writing semina that you said.</p>
<p>Thanks for your help guys :) The thing is, the bachelor of science in economics is more of a business degree/approach, and I'm really interested in studying pure econ ( as my first priority) thats the main reason for why I applied to CAS instead of wharton. But I'm also really interested in the world of finance so I thought that perhaps I could combine both by taking finance as a second degree. But yeah, once I get there I'll probably meet up with my advisor ( is s/he specifically assigned? or do I have to search for one?).</p>
<p>you get a general advisor from a random department to start you off, then a major advisor once you declare - you can always ask the department, though, even before you get here.</p>
<p>Course reg is making me go crazy. It seems like there's no way around me having 3-4 classes a day for most of the week arhgldsahgfdslka and some of them just HAVE to be back to back</p>
<p>Yes, my suggestion would be to take the classes like a wharton freshman with the exception of MGMT 100 then transfer because it is really useless to have a BA in Econ and a BS in Econ. You should talk to an Wharton adviser during NSO about the steps you should take/ need to get into Wharton. Assuming that you place out of Econ, I would recommend taking BPUB 250; this is a required Econ class for Wharton freshmen.</p>
<p>You do realize that the cutoff is normally 3.66~ and it was 3.79 this year. The type of people who get in are 1- people who play the system and take easy classes 2- people that work really really hard. I wouldn't plan this as if I were guranteed a 100% spot in wharton.</p>