<p>Well, regardless of how you do on the AP test, you will be given a math placement test the day after your move-in day!!! It will recommend you for a given class, but several students elect to take a class up or down - you’re not stuck with your placement results. Having said that, if it so happens that your placement score is below what the AP would give you credit for, what you do is really up to you. I have heard of kids who didn’t do so hot in Calculus in high school and took it upon themselves to self-study over the summer. So, that’s an option as well. The nice thing about the quarter system is that it will indeed allow you to fine-tune the classes you take, since they are split into three pieces as opposed to two. Also keep in mind that if you end up coming here fully satisfied with your computational math skills, the 160s sequence can offer you the unique experience of takingly a highly rigorous proof only calc class. They go from proving the properties of binary operations up to integral calc (its quite amazing). BUUUUUT, if you really just want to get the D/L on computational stuff for econ, you can also take 130s, which will have relatively few proofs in it and is computationally-focused. So, all these options are there for you.</p>
<p>BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!!!</p>
<p>If you take one of the less rigorous math classes, but then decide to try to pursue math further, just this year they started a math sequence 199, “Intro to Analysis and Linear Algebra”, which is a transition course from 130s and 150 into Analysis. So, you have PLEEENTY of options. For now, just worry about studying hard in math (since i’ve been here i quickly realized that it was just about the only important subject that i had in HS) and see what happens after the placement test here.</p>
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<p>P.S.: To get you pumped for econ here, read Robert Axelrod’s “Evolution of Cooperation.” The book is about iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma games and what interesting conclusions about biology and social networks can be drawn from it. Axelrod is now a professor at the University of Michigan and was, I’m proud to say, a graduate of the University of Chicago with an A.B. in Math.</p>