Comments | standby_go: Masters of Environmental Management/Masters of Forestry

standby_go

Masters of Environmental Management/Masters of Forestry

Feb 05, 2010 16:19

So, I got notice today that I have received conditional acceptance into Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment for their dual degree MEM/MF program. It's conditional because they want me to take a statistics course, a calculus course, and a microeconomics course before I enroll (I can take one of these my first semester). My question for those ( Read more... )

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farrow February 5 2010, 22:26:33 UTC

Calculus, don't bother. Stats and econ, I would recommend you take them in grad school. I had taken one stats course and two econ courses prior to attending Yale, and still benefited greatly from the courses they offered. Like, enough that I feel dumb for having considered opting out of them. I don't see any need to retake the courses prior to entering grad school, unless they require you to. It sounds like you said they won't accept you unless you do take those courses though?

farrow February 5 2010, 22:28:14 UTC

(Calculus is only beneficial if you decide you really like econ and/or stats and want to continue with them into more advanced courses. You never know, you might.)

standby_go February 6 2010, 04:05:38 UTC

Yeah, they basically want me to take an undergraduate course in calculus, stats, and economics as a prerequisite for admission. If I'm not likely to need the calculus stuff for grad school, I don't think I'll take it again, but it's been a decade (time passes fast) since I took stats, so I feel like even if they don't require it, I should brush up before showing up. Econ isn't optional.

standby_go February 6 2010, 04:07:46 UTC

Also, I need to make sure that my admission won't be affected by the fact that I dropped a course I was planning on taking this spring (it wasn't a prerequisite, but was listed on my application - I dropped it when I discovered that I'd likely be getting laid off and would need more flexibility in my end date than a class would allow if I wanted to try and work this summer).

elf February 6 2010, 17:35:14 UTC

I'm with Darcy - don't bother with calc. I'd take the undergrad econ course though - it helps to have the basics under your belt before you start trying to do more advanced stuff. (Disclaimer: I minored in econ in undergrad, and having the basics down makes the grad level stuff FAR more interesting/useful. Don't stop with the required course - you should definitely take econ courses in grad school too that are tailored more to your specialty ( ... )