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<p>My daughter is an economics major at Cornell, and I do not think that someone with this applicant’s low SAT math score would thrive in that major at that college.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s true that at many colleges (including Cornell) economics majors officially need only one semester of calculus. But that’s because the economics courses themselves teach a lot of the math that econ majors need to know. Also, a lot of econ majors take much more math than is officially required. Econ is very mathematically oriented – much more so than any other social science.</p>