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<p>I don’t consider myself a math person. I don’t really get it, I have nightmares about summation notation, etc. And the first day I stepped foot into Econ 50 and saw the way the prof wrote down everything (numbers and symbols) I was worried. But you get used to it. And once you get passed the core (5 courses), you can pretty much get through the whole rest of the major without really doing any math.</p>
<p>Yes, you do have to a take a relatively advanced calc course, but if you’re smart enough to get into Stanford and get a likely letter from Yale, I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to handle it. The only math you’ll need to remember from it is how to take partial derivatives, and that’s easier (in my eyes) than most of high school calculus. The rest of the math related stuff you’ll see is fairly basic; there’s just a lot of symbols, variables and what not, it looks complicated, but it really isn’t.</p>
<p>All that aside though, don’t pick between schools based on whatever major you think you’re going to be going in to. As in, don’t let it factor in to your decision at all. I guarantee you it will change. Pick a school based on the people you meet while visiting, student life, rumors (though to a lesser degree…but they’re usually true in part, so they have their uses), etc. Don’t worry about your major until the day you step foot on campus as a freshman at the very earliest, and even then in most cases you should just forget about it until sophomore year. What college you decide to go to is far too important a choice to be swayed by something that won’t be true 4 years down the line.</p>