@olieaa98 : No! Never let your year fool you. If you have AP credit, you probably should challenge yourself and take the more advanced option if you can (you aren’t a pre-health or something, you’re trying to train or develop a pathway to a sort of career that could benefit from a good UG background. Being potentially challenged is not a detriment in such a case, even if you don’t make an A in every such course). The only time I would advise against it is if you are taking more than 2 demanding courses (inclusive of the econ. course), but in general your more demanding ones will be among the most beneficial and probably have the best teachers and mentors and that can’t be a bad thing to develop as early as possible during your time at Emory. There is much more to it than how comfortable your transition is or whether or not you have to break a sweat making a good grade. Perhaps you would be off to a good start by taking comparative politics with Lancaster as well as other courses that you’re interested in. That way, you’ll have at least 2 really good instructors that have quite the reputation at Emory.
Also, to be sure you impress yourself with the level of Emory instructors. Try to get the best instructors for whichever you choose (macro or micro: In fact since macro is a ? faculty wise, go with micro as Banerjee is teaching it?). You can even take econ. 215 with an econ. 101 credit. Also, note that most b-school folks are not into “entrepreneurial” career paths so much as finance and consulting. Your career goals are more likely to align with an entrepreneurial pathway that probably cannot be facilitated as well by the business schools so much as it can be by other opportunities in the college.
What other departments are you interested in? Things like polisci (you said IS) or will you perhaps be interested in developing something through the ILA (this could help)?: http://ila.emory.edu/home/undergraduate/majors_minors/index.html