<p>I’m taking a Microeconomics course as a HS student at Penn, and it’s torture…</p>
<p>Nursing is pretty far away from econ i think</p>
<p>Something similar like biomed research maybe but not pre-med? </p>
<p>Gender Studies. Theology. French Literature. </p>
<p>Nah…I’m looking at History but my family is poor and I’m looking for a major that’ll make a lot of money…</p>
<p>Well, what specifically about econ do you not like?</p>
<p>Ethnomusicology</p>
<p>engineering and other STEM majors</p>
<p>I’m not applying for Engineering but maybe Computer Science or Biology??
I don’t wanna take a class that I’ll have little clue about. </p>
<p>@phantomvirgo i don’t like the graphs and the equations…knowing the effects of demand and supply and all the different types of markets…really confusing.</p>
<p>In other words, I hate applying concepts to questions; I’m better with memorizing. I also love history but I don’t think that’s the best job-wise. </p>
<p>@ThePariah - If you major in History at Yale, you’d probably be okay career-wise. </p>
<p>it may not be the best idea to select a major solely on criteria of its difference from economics.</p>
<p>Comp Sci!!</p>
<p>women’s studies
dance
creative writing</p>
<p>@preamble1776 what about at Penn? </p>
<p>@foolish maybe creative writing…</p>
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<p>If you hate applying concepts to questions, I don’t think you’ll do well in <em>any</em> career that makes a lot of money. The highest-paying careers hire people who can think critically about large amounts of information and apply that information. Even physicians and nurses have to decide the best of many options, since every case is different. Several scientific fields (chem and bio come to mind) start out with a lot of memorization but eventually morph into applying concepts to questions, and math does the same thing - once you get to a certain level you’re doing less computation and more logic/critical thinking.</p>
<p>I would still say that math and computer science probably involve more memorization at least at the early stages than economics, as do biology and chemistry. You can choose from a variety of higher-paying careers with math or computer science. Engineering is a mix, I think - a lot of engineering majors have senior design projects that require you to solve some problem.</p>
<p>But really, if your only problem is that you don’t like applying concepts, you need to get better at that. Memorization is a low-value task. Being able to critically think, synthesize information, analyze it, and come up with solutions are high-value tasks and you’ll get paid more if you can successfully do that. Even if you did change to math or comp sci, any job that you’d get in that field is going to require you to apply concepts to questions (using information that you’ve memorized, but you’ll have to go further).</p>
<p>Economics is all about using math to model behavior and decision making in the marketplace. It’s a bit of history, psychology, sociology, political science, and lots of math.
One of the tools our kids have used to focus on a major is to go down the major list of a large university and cross off everything that does not sound interesting, and then investigate what’s left. Way back when, as a kid with no idea what I wanted to study, I chose a college with a ton of general ed requirements, spent my first two years working through them, exploring, and building a solid foundation, and then declared a major.
You should think honestly about what you enjoy and are good at, and work from there. </p>
<p>Well I’m pretty sure Ill do okay but it’s also because I underestimated and run out of time because of college apps and high school work.</p>
<p>I studied for almost 2 whole days before my second midterm and I got the lowest grade in the class.</p>
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<p>However, math and CS involve applying concepts to solve problems from the start.</p>
<p>I applied to CAS so I can’t go with CS yet.
I know I have to apply concepts but I think it would be different than Econ.
I just hate demand and supply and those graphs…</p>