<p>@boysx3 very informative answer sir. I’m looking for a smaller sized school where I’m not overwhelmed with the number of students.</p>
<p>Economics is one of the easiest majors at Emory. Also political science is pretty easy, you don’t have to take many writing intensive classes.</p>
<p>I wish they would show the average GPA by major.</p>
<p>If you are interested in going to law school, ask to speak to law school advisor Rodia Vance.</p>
<p>I heard Econ is really hard</p>
<p>Not going to lie When When: Though I was a hardcore science major, my humanities and social science classes were amazing. Emory students really shine in these discussion based settings. While many were fairly easy grading (though I had a couple of tough ones that really improved my writing), they were very stimulating and forced me to evaluate some of my ideas. This is important to develop in students at a “so called” (cuts make me worry) liberal arts institution.</p>
<p>Matisyahu: Please stop simply looking for easy majors. Wherever you end up going (please don’t come to Emory with this attitude… We don’t need additions to the hoards of folks subscribing to this mentality), just try some stuff, test the waters, and see what you like. And no, econ. isn’t that tough. However, I believe they are working on the grade inflation thing by implementing the B-school curve in introductory courses. I think this usually results in the course average being between 3.0 and 3.2 (like 3.15 normally). However, to me this is soft as chemistry classes at there toughest grading (say orgo.) can dip to like 2.5 and many other sciences go no higher than like 2.9.</p>
<p>Econ department still gets a lot of students that can’t get into the business school. So being a top student in the Econ department is generally easier than other departments.</p>
<p>I would not speculate so much on that. What if the ones rejected from the B-school for example were those who could not hack it in the sciences (so maybe tried for business), so were applying to the B-school with a lower GPA because they were only an average science student (C+/B)? Many of these people could actually probably do better than many who did get in the B-school who took the softer grading classes/GERs that they took before gaining admission. I would suspect such students would do very well in econ (and probably the b-school). I also know a lot of science majors/pre-meds double majoring in economics. These folks are tough, so I wouldn’t say it’s easier to get to the top. Also, let’s not mention, many econ. classes are likely tougher than most B-school classes and are often more math intensive (which many B-school students are averse to). Just don’t jump to those conclusions like that.</p>
<p>I think the B-school takes the fact that pre-med drop outs had a harder course load. They mainly look at your grades in calculus, statistics, plus Macro and Micro econ. If you did not do well in these courses, chances are that your math skills are lacking. If you worked hard to master basic math before college, you usually find more advanced topics easier to learn. People who just assumed that you can do everything with a calculator are the ones who struggle to get the underlying concepts later on. To be perfectly honest, I think the Economics department at Emory has some serious problems. The university is eliminating the PhD program in the department. A lot of the professors were unhappy with the way the university treated the department even before they took this step. This is all public information at this point.</p>
<p>[College</a> Downsizes Departments, Phases Out Programs, Faculty, Staff : The Emory Wheel](<a href=“http://www.emorywheel.com/college-downsizes-departments-phases-out-programs-faculty-staff/]College”>College Downsizes Departments, Phases Out Programs, Faculty, Staff | The Emory Wheel)</p>
<p>“Shomu Banerjee, a lecturer in the economics department, said that the economics chair received a letter from the Dean, notifying the department that the University would be suspending the Ph.D. program. Banerjee said he was insulted by Formans claim to have made extensive consultations.
How can he not consult my department and the director of the graduate school and the executive committee of the Laney Graduate School? Those things tell me that he could not have conducted extensive consultations, Shomu said.
Forman said that he conducted these extensive consultations under the promise of confidentiality and, in the case of the economics department, was in very close consultation with the dean of the graduate school.
Banerjee noted that without the Ph.D. program, tenured professors have no reason to stay since they cannot conduct and produce high-level research. Many within the department are already discussing an exit strategy, according to Banerjee. He predicts that five to six professors will leave by the end of this year and another five two years from now.”</p>
<p>It definitely has problems (obviously), but one cannot argue whether or not it is less rigorous than the b-school. Describing the b-school as practical and fulfilling, sure, but rigorous, no. Rigorous entities of the university would not need a grade distribution. The grades would just fall to a certain level using a normal scale. For example, you can’t name a chemistry or even many biology classes where like 15-20% of the class has like a 98 so they need to curve 98 down to an A-. This does happen in the B-school however (and a shocking amount of them seem to be averse to basic math and calculus. Compare this to many econ. majors who are also joint majoring in math or CS who must take courses beyond multivariable). Also, I’m not on admissions there, so I won’t speculate on how they decide who gets in. If my only goal were to keep up appearances of selectivity, I would personally choose those w/3.45+ GPA’s regardless of courseload and rigor. I’m not arguing that econ. is of good quality, I’m just arguing that the curriculum may be tougher than the B-school curriculum. Unfortunately, if you aren’t creative and don’t know how to use an econ. degree (many non-preprofs. majoring in econ.), then the major is nowhere near as “meaningful” as the BBA program, which outside of the classes is just full of opps (Emory students do well in case competitions for example). Also, some courses are great in that they involve project based learning where the students actually work w/the corporations.</p>
<p>Is Psychology hard to get over a 3.8 in?
What about Political Science or history?</p>
<p>Maybe, maybe not. We don’t know you. Try and find out. I would guess no for the latter 2. This is a poor way to choose a major BTW. Off to Ann Arbor you go (though I think it is more intellectual than Emory so I don’t know if they would appreciate this either).</p>
<p>I have heard, but cannot substantiate, that intro psychology courses are a bit tougher in grading to weed-out some of the pre-med students from majoring in psychology. I know nothing about history, and the only real complaints I’ve heard about political science are about the methods courses.</p>
<p>The intro. psyche series (110/111) is actually kind of challenging, and I’m sure the course averages are similar to many introductory science courses. This is at least the case on main campus.</p>
<p>@bernie12 relax bro.</p>
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<p>Oxford actually has a different introductory series and some other differences (e.g., there are two upper-level psychology with no prerequisites, while the Atlanta campus requires an intro psychology course as a prerequisite for all other psychology courses).</p>
<p>Naw, I won’t relax. You haven’t even chosen a school yet, nor have experienced college. I feel a thread like this should not exist (at least for a top 20). I understand the other thread where the person wants to get into the b-school so is concerned after actually having tried their hand at some classes, but I don’t get this. Choose a school and try some courses you think you’ll like and you should do well. Don’t be so preemptive about the grades just yet. Give yourself a chance. What if you actually are interested in, try out, and then do well in what is generally considered a difficult major? I have had (and have) several friends who are/were chemistry and pre-law and did or are doing fine. You should be wanting to discuss the quality or offerings within each major, not only the ease. An abundance of those mainly interested in the latter makes for a boring academic environment. Worse, you may bore yourself wherever you go. Just throwing it out there. This thread honestly shouldn’t even be this long, because there are some majors/concentrations that are generally accepted to be easy at about every school (Emory is no different). I don’t think you need us to tell you what they are.</p>
<p>@bernie12 relax bro.</p>
<p>Is economics hard?</p>
<p>As an econ major, I do not believe it is very hard to do well. The intro classes (101 and 112) are very easy, so those should be no problem. </p>
<p>If there were to be a “weed-out” class for the econ major is would be Intermediate Micro (Econ 201). But again, it’s still doable. </p>
<p>I think the econ department has established more strict grading criteria that make it similar to the b-school, so only a certain percentage of people get above A- and a certain percent get below C+, etc.</p>