Warrior2005

To start, I posted this thread on the UC Transfers forum, and some users there were great help to me, especially Malishka31.

Before having seen either of the two schools I've been accepted to (SD & LA), I'm conflicted. I guess that's natural.

The thing that makes it weird is I applied to two different majors that can both lead me down the same career path.

At UCSD, I was accepted as a management science major and at UCLA, I was accepted as a Math/Applied Science major and would most likely go with the Operations Research track if I do go there.

The Math/Applied Science major has roughly an equal share of classes between math and economics classes, which I guess is more similar to UCSD's Math/Econ major, whereas UCSD's Management Science major is going to be a lot of economics (specifically micro-) classes that emphasize the quantitative side of things.

While my Math grades through my life have been pretty good and I'm confident in my math abilities, I'm not sure if I'm cutout for a math intensive major. ...and I'm not even sure I want to be taking math classes for the next two years, I don't find myself enjoying it (relatively...duh).

I'm not looking to get my PhD or anything, my career plans are currently: graduate, find a job (as of now, I'm thinking something in finance/investment banking/consulting) for a few years, then get into an MBA program. In the long run, where I receive my MBA from is huge, but getting into an MBA program is largely dependent on your work experience, internships, and undergraduate major/gpa.

I'm not really sure what it's like to find internships through UCSD for things like this, and I suspect that UCLA will be more resourceful than this. Also, by search on this forum and just searching around in general, I can't seem to figure out which will present me with more job opportunities in the aforementioned fields once I receive my bachelor's.

If anyone could help me with this or point me in a direction that would help, that would be great.

Oh, and Berkeley would have been ideal (had everything worked out since the major I applied to is capped...to a very small number) as I applied to an Operations Research/Management major and that seemed to fit all my needs (and was close to home so everyone was happy!). Oh well, gotta settle with what I've got, and they're not bad options

Thanks in advance.
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I've done all the lower division math, I've completed it all. The difference is going to come in the upper division math courses, I believe.

For UCSD Management Science:

# Upper-division economics core courses. ECON 100A-B-C (microeconomics), ECON 120A-B-C (econometrics), ECON 171 (decisions under uncertainty), ECON 172A-B (operations research) and ECON 173A-B (finance).
4. Upper-division economics electives. Four more economics courses at the upper-division level. At least two of these elective courses must be “advanced electives.” The management science advanced electives are:

ECON 103: International Monetary Relations
ECON 104: Economics of Network Industries
ECON 105: Industrial Organization and Firm Strategy
ECON 109: Game Theory
ECON 113: Mathematical Economics
ECON 119: Law and Economics: Contracts and Corporations
ECON 121: Applied Econometrics
ECON 125: Demographic Analysis and Forecasting
ECON 150: Public Economics: Taxation
ECON 151: Public Economics: Expenditures I
ECON 152: Public Economics: Expenditures II
ECON 155: Political Economics
ECON 174: Financial Risk Management
ECON 176: Marketing
ECON 178: Economic and Business Forecasting
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For UCLA Math/Applied Sciences Management/Accounting track (for example):

Required: Seven Mathematics Department courses, including Mathematics 115A, 131A, 164, 170A or Statistics 100A or 110A, Mathematics 170B or Statistics 100B or 110B, and two courses from Mathematics 106 through 199 and Statistics 100C; eight management courses, including Management 120A, 120B, 122, 140, 212A, 212B, and one additional course from 108 through 182.

Just looking at the named math courses, those are:
Linear Algebra
Analysis
Optimization
Probability Theory (two semesters)
And then two more upper div math courses
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To clear something up, I have been fine with math through my college career thus far, I've done an exceptional job in those courses. I'm just not sure how I feel about taking several UD math courses over the next two years. Make sense?
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And I read an edit in Malishka31's post and realized I've been an idiot this entire time, the operations research track and management track have both been discontinued. I was always just going through the link to the list of undergraduate majors and reading the descriptions there *d'oh!*

Anyways, there does seem to be an "Individual Plan." Is it possible to setup the same sequence that was in the Management or Operations Research track?

If so, let's assume things are that way.

Thank you!

bruinboy

iono if you're aware of this, but UCLA also has a math/econ major...