Prerequisites

Admissions and Financial Aid

Economics
Our first semester courses presume a thorough knowledge of Microeconomics at the level of a rigorous treatment of undergraduate intermediate theory. More economics background is preferred, but an Economics Major is not required.

Mathematics
The student must have at a minimum two semesters of calculus as well as some linear algebra. This is an absolute minimum and is rarely seen as competitive for a financial aid offer. There is a strong admissions and financial aid bias towards students with more mathematics: differential equations, real analysis, mathematical probability and statistics.

Courses called Mathematics for Economists, Mathematics for Social Scientists, and Econometrics are not a substitute for formal Mathematics.

A mathematics refresher course is offered before classes in mid-August. In our experience most entering students can benefit significantly from that course, though it is not required.

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