pookie bear

The hardest undergraduate math class is the one you are currently taking. 6 months later it all seems trivial. Real Analysis gets over emphasized on this board. Many students enter PhD programs without real analysis; your analysis class should be fine.

It must just big my big state school mentality, but I don't think I learned a signal thing from my actual lectures. I went purely so I could write down key terms to learn later. Not that I didn't have professors that made the material interesting. They just didn't teach it. More just made it look cool...

Does anyone learn anything in lectures anyways? Be honest... Lectures are pointless, they are more administrative than anything. When is the test, homework due, what is on it, etc...

What book does your real analysis class use?

lay on the beach.

maybe MA programs? i doubt there are any phd programs that will run micro I, macro I, metrics I twice in one year...there just arent enough students to fill the classes twice. Hence, no springs admissions.

my department allows one to graduate with econ honors if you take like 12 hours of honors econ courses. I'm choosing to take PhD courses instead, I think my resume will be more impressive. My university does give magna, summa, and cum laude based on your percentile rank, but I also doubt that matters since you are ranked against graduates from other majors. It might be something nice to hang your hat on in the private sector though...

Mankiw avoids the use of calculus...not a fan

The class average was in the high 40's. That is a fair curve.

You're telling me...

McConnell and Brue Microeconomics...didn't open it once, could not tell you if it is any good.

I don't think there is anything wrong with writing a test that has a 40 average and then curving the difference so that the class average is a 78-80. A C+/B- average is pretty standard in the US. This allows the true geniuses of the class to really be tested and makes perfect scores less likely. However what my prof did is a little extreme. It seems entirely possible that the rest of the class did truly awful and this was a fair curve, but I doubt it. I'm pretty excited about the A, but you guys do have a point... Side note: The grade distribution for this prof shows up on line...49% A's, 11% B-D, 40% F

Was this at an American ugrad? I think the numerical average in my real analysis class was in the 40's...the prof had no choice but to curve the class.

I just looked through my old book, Ross actually has a section on metric spaces and some basic topology. Nevermind, carry on.

Ross' book does not cover point-set topology. It isn't worth taking another class to get that, but self-studying would be helpful.

My numerical grade in real analysis was roughly 75% and I got an A

Took a summer course in the womens studies dept for a gen ed requirement. Was taught by your typical sociologist. I basically spent a semester tearing this ladies arguments about unions, capitalism, and race apart. Meanwhile my friend sits in the back all semester, never says a word, never does her work, and is generally just pissed about being there. She gets an A. I get an A-. Moral of the story: sociologists are not rational.

What surprised me is that I had been getting right around the class averages the whole semester...

Gotta love math curves. I go into my last final completely freaked, I've done awful on all my problem sets, and got an 80% on my midterm. I'm thoroughly convinced I'm getting a C+/B- in this class. The final goes reasonably well. Long story short, I check my online account and the prof gave me an A. The rest of this class must have done awful... Math profs are so generous.

1) I found Prob and Stats to be 2 of the easier upper division math courses. 2) You will probably have to take econometrics for your econ degree, but having already taken prob and stats will make that class a cakewalk... or you could take the grad metrics course, in which case you will really want the prob and stats course in your background. In either case, take the math class.

sounds like someone needs help on a take home final...

My undergrad analysis class covered the last half of Lays Analysis book.

i took 3 upper division math classes this semester. I'm not smart enough to do it. Bummer. B's are going to follow. Summer session would be even harder.

I have seen Dartmouth on the CV's of many top 10 graduates.

Stanford's campus would never get boring...