<p>Sligh, those maths will probably not be of any use.</p>
<p>I think that the statistics are biased since the successful people come from top schools. Employers would hire people from top schools any day, regardless of the Economics degree. Someone who majors in Business with honors at San Jose State would probably be privileged to someone from UC San Diego who majors in Economics for a Silicon Valley job</p>
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dude… learn what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>seriously, if you don’t know what you’re talking about, DO NOT TALK.</p>
<p>Wharton does NOT OFFER UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES IN BUSINESS, and if you’re doing Econ at UPenn, it’s AT WHARTON. Wharton is the college responsible for economics at Upenn.</p>
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only if you’re going to do grad work in Econ, otherwise it won’t matter. The only math really used would be stochastic calculus. In fact, unless you’re doing something VERY numerically intensive, too much math is a turn off as it implies you’re not a people person. Finance, Hedging, and S&T like quants, IB and management don’t care so much for them.</p>
<p>I’m a quantitative economics/econometrics major. I’m going to be steeped in crap for the next two years. Trust me when I say this, business is easier, and the GPA from it will be higher. I’m going to have to work hard to be competitive. I’m only doing a hard major(I follow Austrian school economics and find trying to quantity things to be largely futile) like this in order to get into a solid b-school for my MSF.</p>
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Please don’t ruin my curve.</p>
<p>I’m going to end this right here.
Almost anything you can do with a business degree you can do with a degree in economics and vice versa. The degree doesn’t matter so much. It is what YOU the individual make of it. Employers will give people interviews if they see that they’re intelligent and driven. The person with the higher GPA/better school, more/better internships, and more relevant/better extra circulars will likely have the advantage at getting that interview. Once you’re in, it’s all you, your degree your credentials… they don’t matter so much. It’s your personality and how well you answer the questions asked. Study what fits you best.</p>
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<p>LOL @ the irony/hypocrisy
This is completely INCORRECT
Wharton offers undergraduate degrees in **business<a href=“that%20happen%20to%20be%20called%20B.S.%20Economics”>/B</a>
The COLLEGE is the one responsible for the actual undergraduate economics degrees</p>
<p>This post is interesting. I’m double majoring in both Economics and Finance right now because the subjects are interesting to me.</p>
<p>I browsed through this thread. I can’t believe I missed this in the past. It is one of the dumbest posts I’ve ever read.</p>
<p>Care to tell us why?</p>
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<p>I’ve gotten an A in every econ class I’ve ever taken, none of them were hard at all. And this is coming from someone whose resume gets thrown in the trash/shredder due to a weak sup-3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>By the way, the OP is like taxguy lite.</p>
<p>I agree. Stupid people shouldn’t major in economics. It’s a major reserved for the smarter types. It’s also for people who are pretty smart, but not smart enough to do engineering. Stupid people end up in accounting, marketing, psych, communications etc… Those are the ones you want to avoid, unless you’re stupid, then I would go ahead and do one of those.</p>
<p>Wait a second, I just realized a dude with the name “Sligh_ANARCHIST” made a post detailing how he plans on entering the corporate world after graduation. ***? What irony.</p>
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<p>That’s BS. There’s nothing hard about it, and there’s no “smart, but not smart enough for engineering”. There is smart, and there is not smart, period. Accounting is a much more difficult major than economics by orders of magnitude. There is just way too much to memorize in too short of time for anyone to call it “easy” (with the exception of engineers on the internet, who are beyond reproach because engineers created the internet), let alone some punk econ major who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.</p>
<p>LOL Economics is for smarter people. That’s funny. MusicJosh: It’s already been mentioned in this thread, but what that tard TS forgot to factor in is that Ivy league schools don’t have business majors. Therefore the majority of economics majors that are successfully landing good jobs is not solely because of the major, but more so the prestige and recruiting of the school.</p>
<p>Damn, there’s some bitter *** people on here. Maybe we can create a separate “failed accountants” forum for some of these guys.</p>
<p>Inmotion, aren’t you the bitter failure in life? I didn’t think CPAs were failed accountants. That is news to me…</p>
<p>Inmotion, you are a zero.</p>
<p>Dawgie and Whistleblower1, just out of curiosity–what schools do you or did attend? What are, or were, your majors? If you graduated, what are you doing now?</p>
<p>CPA, CFA Level 2, Big 4 exp, currently at F500. 24 years old.</p>
<p>I make $15 an hour after taxes. morrismm, what was your major and GPA?</p>
<p>Neither mentioned your school.</p>
<p>You both have so many strong judgments, I think you should disclose your credentials without giving away your identity.</p>