What is Economics and/or Finance like?

<p>I would like to take it at UPenn so I want to know if it fits me.</p>

<p>I dont really understand what your asking, are you asking about workload and difficulty or the material itself?</p>

<p>Not really, just what will I be learning. I will not be able to take a physics or AP calc class, just regular calc in 12th grade. I don’t really know anything about econ but it sounds interesting if I apply for CAS. </p>

<p>I dont really understand what not being able to take physics or AP calc class has to do with your question other than they are completely irrelevant to your success in a communications major. As for the exact material you will be learning, that’s far too broad of a question, you will learn the basics obviously but outside of that, different schools teach/focus on different parts of economics and finance as well as letting you take different types. Seeing as I never attended Penn, I cant speak from experience the exact one’s they offer.</p>

<p>I know that Penn is like #9 for Econ so I am kind of interested, what kind of jobs do you get? And do I have to go to graduate school after undergrad? </p>

<p>If you are talking about going for a MBA, the top schools generally want candidates who have some significant full time work experience. You’d have to plan on getting a job after your undergraduate degree for at least a couple of years before you consider applying to MBA programs.</p>

<p>I really don’t know yet. </p>

<p>In Finance you’ll learn the debt/equity conundrum, how to figure the value of a firm… basically how to use different investment modes to keep a company operating efficiently.</p>

<p>Going into IB, you’d leverage that knowledge to educatedly bet on companies and markets. </p>

<p>Working at a company, you would help to either gather and present info to make financial decisions, or one day make those decisions.</p>

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<p>In Econ, you’re considering Sociology and History a bit – how do people make financial decisions, how did they in the past? How do demographics play a role? What are the main cash flows among the main economic centers? How does trade work? What should a nation trade to maximize the benefits of its advantages? Guns and butter…</p>

<p>Seems like I’d love Econ a lot then. I love history. </p>