<p>Besides the math intensive Economics courses being math intensive... what's the difference between the two? I'd like to work as a Management Consultant and obtain a MBA from a top business school... not feeling the whole five years for an Economics PHD... I'd also like to complete a senior honors thesis.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Really one trains you better for math-intensive futures. For a VAST majority of things you’ll do with an MBA, basic familiarity with very basic math and stats is all you need.</p>
<p>You can get as fancy as you want and learn Analysis in order to do probability in graduate school. But that doesn’t sound like what you want.</p>
<p>I have heard from real people in say IBanking and stuff that a lot of the heavy math thinkers can be frowned upon, because it’s hard to predict the future reliably. Sure, there are positions for people with PhDs in math to be analysts and stuff … but again that’s a very different line of work from what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>Well, my dream would be Mangement Consulting at McKinsey & Company/The Boston Consulting Group, Inc./Bain & Company -> HBS… I don’t know which courses would be better looked upon/prepare me the most… I’ve read that Management Consulting firms like Ivy League Engineers/Quantitative majors as apposed to Qualitative majors… but that may have been bad hearsay since it seems like Mangement Consultants would benefit from strong qualitative skills…</p>
<p>If you like math and are good at it, you will probably enjoy the “more math” courses (101A/101B/141) better than the “less math” courses (100A/100B/140).</p>
<p>Whether it makes a difference in your future plans depends – sometimes it does, sometimes it does not. But when it does make a difference, the “more math” courses will be better preparation.</p>
<p>Anymore adviiice?</p>
<p>Anymooore adviiice? lol…</p>
<p>what does a math intensive econ class have anything to do with being a management consultant? can you even do calc-3 level math?</p>
<p>You’re better off doing engineering with the type of future that you’re describing.</p>