How difficult are economic classes at Brown?

rob22
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:47:49 +0000

^^as for curves, there is certainly some grade inflation. Most teachers don’t follow the 90/80/70 rule seen at a lot of schools. For example ECON1130 certainly doesn’t follow this rule (maybe 75% for an A? you really can’t tell since you generally don’t get your final back). The same is true for econometrics roughly…perhaps an 80% for an A. It’s not unusual for 1/3 of the class to get an A.

I can really only speak for the mathematical econ classes though (corp finance, econometrics, investments, mathy micro, accounting, etc.)