IB History or Econ HL?

Shree813
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:20:57 +0000

I have to take either History or Economics at the higher level in IB. I’m torn. I live in Canada and from what I’ve researched about top U.S. universities, they want 4 years of english, math, history, etc. I’m planning to go into science so I’m probably making too big of a deal about this but which class should I take? I’m leaning towards history because 11th grade is American History and 12th grade is Canadian and World Politics. I’m good at writing essays and thinking about global issues and I am pretty fascinated by history. However, my parents are pushing me to take econ because it’s a more “useful”. They even made me look up Elon Musk to convince me :). I’ve talked to students taking econ and they say it’s a bit dry.

So what should I take?