Son's major at JuCo was General Studies. Once he transferred to a D2 university his major was Exercise Science. I don't recall what the team's predominant major was. There were not many STEM majors, if any. Son is in his last semester at a D1 university but gave up ball a couple of years ago (grades). Last played in 2015. His major is now Physical Therapy with an emphasis in Exercise Science. Just two classes this semester and 480 hours of internship.
FWIW, here are the requirements for an econ major at Princeton.
"To enter the Department, a student must complete, by the end of sophomore year, the prerequisite courses ECO 100, 101, 202 and MAT 175 (or equivalents), earning a letter grade of C or better in each. ORF 245 can be substituted for 202; PSY 251 and SOC 301 are not acceptable; WWS 303 may be depending on each year’s content. The Statistics requirement cannot be satisfied with summer courses taken after the student has begun his/her studies at Princeton, except in unusual circumstances approved by the Departmental Representative.
A meeting for sophomores interested in joining the Department will be announced in the spring. Underclass students are welcome to discuss Department requirements with the Departmental Representative. Students considering study abroad are urged to meet with the Departmental Representative at the earliest opportunity in their freshman year.
Advanced Placement Students who scored 5 on the AP microeconomics exam are exempted from ECO 100. Students who scored 5 on the AP macroeconomics exam are exempted from ECO 101. Students who scored 5 on the AP statistics exam are exempted from ECO 202. Note: Exemption from 100 and 101 will be accorded to students who pass the British A-levels with a grade of A, and to those who earn a 7 on the higher-level International Baccalaureate. Students exempted from ECO 100, 101 and 202 may still benefit from taking these courses, which provide important basic materials for the study of economics.
The Department will permit freshmen to enroll in ECO 310, 311, or 312, subject to the approval of the instructor for the course. The requirements are: [1] completion of, or exemption from, ECO 100, 101, and/or 202, as appropriate in each case, and [2] sufficient knowledge of multivariable calculus and vector and matrix algebra. For the latter, ask the Mathematics Department officer concerned (currently Janos Kollar, kollar@math.princeton.edu) to certify that they regard your previous knowledge of mathematics as equivalent to completion of MAT 175, or MAT 201-202, or better.
Mathematics Prerequisites Effective with the Class of 2015, incoming majors will need to have completed MAT 175 (or equivalent) by the end of their sophomore year and earn a letter grade of C or better. Students will only be exempt from the Economics Department’s MAT 175 pre-requisite if they have already taken an acceptable college level course in multivariate calculus and earned a grade of C or better. Please note that the AP BC calculus curriculum is not sufficient since it only teaches univariate calculus, while MAT 175 focuses on multivariate mathematics.
Students who wish to take math-track econometrics (ECO 312), upper level finance certificate courses (such as ECO 462, ECO 465 and ECO 466), or pursue graduate studies in economics and finance should take MAT 201 and 202 instead of MAT 175. Both courses should be taken for a letter grade by this subset of students.
The finance certificate program strongly advises that you take both MAT 201 and 202; only the highest of the two grades is recorded for the purpose of fulfilling the entry requirements. Students who choose to fulfill this requirement by taking the one-semester MAT 175 will be responsible for mastering the linear algebra part of the curriculum on their own.
General Requirements
The department requires concentrators to complete, and pass on a graded basis, the following: Core Courses: Microeconomics (ECO 300 or 310), Macroeconomics (ECO 301 or 311) and Econometrics (ECO 302 or 312), to be completed during or before the junior year.Elective courses: Five other departmentals (see Other Departmental for details).
Junior independent work.
Senior thesis.
Senior comprehensive exam.
Furthermore, the student must have a departmental average of at least C.
Note: The calculation of the departmental average is described in Departmental Average. The treatment of failed courses is described in Advancement to Senior Standing. Core Courses All concentrators must pass, on a graded basis, core courses in microeconomics (ECO 300 or 310), macroeconomics (ECO 301 or 311) and econometrics (ECO 302 or 312).
These courses must be completed during or before the junior year. Each of the three core courses is offered in two versions to accommodate different levels of preparation in mathematics: ECO 300, ECO 301 and ECO 302 require MAT 175 or equivalent. Students who wish to take ECO 310 and/or ECO 311 can take either MAT 175 or MAT 201; the latter course will provide a more thorough preparation. Students planning to take ECO 312 should take the two semester sequence MAT 201 and MAT 202 instead of MAT 175. Qualified students are encouraged to take the more mathematical versions. It is not necessary to take all three courses in the same version.
Other Departmentals In addition to the three core courses, concentrators must pass, on a graded basis, five other departmental courses. Departmentals can be any 300-, 400-, or 500-level Economics courses, or an approved cognate (see Cognates).
Students planning a senior thesis with empirical emphasis are strongly encouraged to take ECO 313; students planning a theoretical senior thesis are strongly encouraged to take ECO 317 and/or ECO 418.
Senior Comprehensive Exam
The senior comprehensive examination is a written exam that covers the department’s required courses (intermediate microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics). The senior comprehensive exam grade will appear on the student’s transcript.
Cognates
Economics majors are allowed to count a maximum of two courses from other departments as cognates. These courses need to have substantial economics content. A course with an Economics cross-listing (indicated by an ECO 3XX, ECO 4XX, or ECO 5XX number in its first or second listing) counts as a regular departmental, not as a cognate. Courses that will be automatically recognized by SCORE as cognates are listed below. No application is necessary for these courses. Cognates that are automatically approved are: COS 445 Networks, Economics and Computing ELE 381 Friends, Money and Bytes HIS 474 American Economic Crises, 1873 – 2009 MAT 378 Theory of Games< ORF 307 Optimization ORF 309 Probability and Stochastic Systems ORF 311 Optimization under Uncertainty ORF 350 Analysis of Big Data ORF 360 Decision Modeling in Business Analytics ORF 363 Computing and Optimization for Physical & Social Sciences ORF 405 Regression and Applied Time Series ORF 417 Dynamic Programming ORF 474 High Frequency Markets: Models and Data Analysis POL 349 Political Economy POL 352 Comparative Political Economy POL 385 International Political Economy PSY 340/NEU 340 Neuroeconomics WWS 309 Terrorism Economics and Politics WWS 340/PSY 321 Psychology of Decision Making and Judgment WWS 373/CHV 373 Welfare, Economics and Climate Change Mitigation Policy WWS 408 Finance and Public Policy WWS 466/HIS 467 Financial History WWS 524 Political Economy of Central Banking WWS 582C Topics in Applied Economics: Growth, International Finance and Crises WWS 582F Topics in Economics – House of Debt: Understanding Macro & Financial Policy NOTE: ELE 491 is NOT approved as a cognate. If you would like us to consider a course that is not on the routinely approved list above, please complete a cognate approval form and submit it, along with a copy of the course syllabus, to Christina Lipsky, 114 Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building. To be approved as a cognate, a course must have a substantial content of theoretical or empirical economic analysis. Permission should be obtained before the semester’s deadline for the grading option change (usually in week 8 or 9 of each term).
Princeton University Max-12 Rule
The University restricts students to taking no more than 12 one-term courses (plus up to two prerequisites and independent work) in a given department within the basic A.B. program of 31 courses. This excludes up to two prerequisites. If you take all three of our prerequisites ECO 100, 101 and 202, you can take at most 11 other ECO courses within the major. Thus, if you anticipate the constraint of the “max-12” rule to be binding, you should take ORF 245 instead of ECO 202. Additional courses in the department may be taken, however, above the normal course load required for graduation. So if you take more than 31 Princeton credit courses over your four years, all the additional ones can be ECO courses. For this rule, courses that are cross-listed count as within Economics if the ECO number comes first in the dual listing (as in ECO 370 / HIS 378 American Economic History) but not if the ECO number is listed second (as in WWS 307 / ECO 349 Economics and Public Policy). Of course both count as Departmentals for the department’s requirements for the major. If in the slighest doubt, consult the Departmental Representative.
Advancement to Senior Standing
The department will recommend to the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing that a concentrator not be permitted to advance to senior standing in any of the following circumstances: (1) the student has not completed, with grades of D or above, the three core courses of the major: micro-economics (ECO 300 or 310), macroeconomics (ECO 301 or 311) and econometrics (ECO 302 or 312) or (2) the student has failed two or more departmental courses, including approved cognates, or (3) the student has an average below C on his/her departmental courses through the junior year, or (4) the student has not completed, or has received a failing grade in, his/her junior independent work. If the student has completed but received the grade of F in a single core course, the departmental representative may exercise discretion and recommend advancement to senior standing and allow the student to take that course again in the senior year if the student’s overall performance in departmental courses is otherwise acceptable."
Faculty; Management
Major: Finance
School: HA
Rest of team; 7 Management, 5 Engineering, 13 Arts, 4 Econ, 2 ED, 1 Music.
Just finished first semester but major is Business Finance. He initially was interested in civil engineering but was told by coach that it was very difficult to make it work because of conflicts with practice and labs.
Was he led to believe that he could study civil engineering before he committed to the school?
