Why so few math/econ majors at UCSD?

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<p>Last year, only 68 people applied, 38 were admitted, and who knows how many actually attend now.</p>

<p>So what's the deal with the 60% admission and so few applicants?</p>

<p>As a comparison, bizecon has 1,518 applicants and 271 admits. Vanilla econ has 534 applicants and 103 admits, and Econ + IS has 231 applicants and 41 admits.</p>

<p>At UCSD, just about every other econ transfer (and most of the freshmen) I know is a math/econ major--maybe that's not generally true, but they make up a bit part of economics (or even math) majors there.</p>

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<p>Temporarily assuming that your question made any sense (maybe you meant to say UCLA in the title?), the answer should be obvious. </p>

<p>And I really doubt your general perception of the proportion of math/econ majors at UCSD is representative of the whole. I have gotten the impression that there is a greater proportion of math and math/econ transfer applicants than the actual proportion of math and math/econ undergraduates. I think this is because CCC students are less likely to find themselves brutalized by lower division math. Many students who took some form of AP Calc in high school go into lower division math at UC's and find that its a completely different ball game. The typical CCC isn't so harsh, at least in first-year calculus. Second, I expect the proportion of math and math/econ transfers to drop after transferring, when they face a course like real analysis, poor performance in which often forces math majors to change to something else.</p>

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<p>Sorry about the title, yeah, I meant UCLA. I should really get some sleep.</p>

<p>A math/econ major must take analysis, so I guess even some of the remaining 38 might drop out of the program after analysis. I guess some of the econ/math majors probably drop out since the singular analysis class offered wasn't nearly filled, and most of the people dropped after the first quiz. Quitters. </p>

<p>Math classes are the only ones I actually worry about under-enrollment. There are only 6 or 7 other people in my Calculus on Manifolds class. =(</p>

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<p>I am a math/econ major trying to get in to UCLA. :) (sorry that doesn't really add much to the conversation but oh well)</p>