<p>I've been lucky enough to have been admitted into CAS. However, i have heard that competition for popular majors like Economics is extremely tough and there are lots of people fighting for the popular majors. </p>
<p>Also i've heard that courses like intro classes in Maths and Economics are difficult and even if you get 90s you still get B's and only people who get 100/high 90s get the A's</p>
<p>I really want to major in Economics or Maths and since they are popular courses, is the competition for a major extremely fierce? How common is it that people don't end up majoring in their first choice subject?</p>
<p>That’s what I’ve heard too, since I will be entering penn as a freshman too. Would be great if a current student could clarify things up</p>
<p>bump! even though I don’T plan on majoring in those I have to take the intro math/econ so it’ll be good to know</p>
<p>second bump! Can somebody who is studying at Penn please come and give us some help?</p>
<p>I got a 78% in MATH 240 and got an A+, if that says anything. I highly doubt that other intro classes would be graded so harshly that scoring in the 90s is only enough for a B.</p>
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<p>Yep, I don’t any such class exists. Perhaps MKTG101, but even that I don’t think is curved harshly.</p>
<p>what about the notion that you have to compete with other classmates for majoring in a popular subject, say Economics. Do they have a “cap” on the number of students that can major in a particular subject or do all students get the major they want?</p>
<p>Well, I’m an incoming student-prospective econ major or math major too-and I’ve heard that there is no cap for the number of students that can major. There is, however, a cap for the number of students in courses that can receive each grade level (A, B, etc).</p>