<p>You have a lot of freedom to make an econ major as challenging as you want it to be. Econ 211 is usually horribly taught and covers a random splattering of material - there’s really no getting around that it’s bad. I feel like econ is one of those subjects that some people are just not hardwired to understand, while some are, so a lot of people take econ 211, discover that economics isn’t for them (either the hardwiring issue or just not something they find interesting) and struggle through it, which is what gives it the reputation of being hard. Most people I know who ended up actually staying economics majors didn’t find it that difficult - not easy, but not something that you can’t get an A in if you put some effort into it.</p>
<p>370/375 are better. Then you get to your electives, which, assuming you choose well, can be amazing. True, there are some that are fairly easy A’s. There are also some that I went in to aiming for a B (great professors, but strict graders).</p>