<p>Hey everyone,</p>
<p>I'm a prospective IR-Econ double major and have a question about AP/IB credit. I'm anticipating pretty surely that I'll get a 6 or a 7 in IB Econ. The Tufts Bulletin states though, that in the event of receiving a 6 or a 7 in IB Econ, "do not enroll in Econ 5" (the introductory economics course).</p>
<p>I went to a really, REALLY bad school (trust me) and I'm not sure how prepared I would be to take intermediate college econ classes, even if I were to get a 7. Is there a way that I can appeal to take Econ 5?</p>
<p>Oh and in an unrelated question, what is the usual course-load at Tufts in terms of class numbers per semester?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>There would be nothing stopping you from taking Ec 5 except that you wouldn’t get any credit for your IB test.</p>
<p>However, my advice is DO NOT TAKE EC 5. I have ABSOLUTELY no econ experience and I’m pulling a very easy A in the class while rarely reading the textbook and attending class about 50% of the time (I would go more, but on Tuesdays it’s my third class in a row so I generally just go to the dining hall instead). If you know intro econ well enough to score that highly on the IB test then you’ll be bored out of your mind (and wasting a lot of time) if you take Ec 5.</p>
<p>People generally take 4-5.5 credits a semester, and engineers may occasionally take more. I think if you’re in the school of Arts and Sciences you only need to take 5 courses for 1 or 2 out of your 8 semesters and can get by with 4 the rest of them. However, I do have a bunch of friends who are going to be seniors next year and can get by with only 3 classes first or second semester because of all the credits they’ve amassed.</p>