How far behind will be if I follow this strategy?

<p>So I am an international freshmen trying to apply for Kelley and here’s the schedule I plan to follow for the first year:
Fall Semester: 15 credits
– BUS K201
– BUS C104
– ECON 201
– easy three credits elective
– easy three credits elective</p>

<p>Spring Semester: 12 credits
– M119 calculus
– BUS G202 (2 credits)
– BUS A100 (1 credit)
– easy three credits elective
– easy three credits elective</p>

<p>This schedule is actually proposed by a fellow user on this forum.
Notice that it’s basically the easier schedule possible. However despite the user’s suggestion, I still plan to take E201 on IU campus as I am actually confident enough that I will pass with at least a B as I have studied the subject before and understood the material. And there’s no English class on here which I don’t plan to take till after I get into Kelley, or I will take it over the winter break via ivy tech.</p>

<p>Anyways, my concern is that how far behind will I be compared to other direct admits if I plan to take up accounting as my major and I do realise that it is very competitive. I do plan to apply for internships at accounting firms but I have read from other threads that they can be tough to get too and it really depends on experiences and how many accounting classes one has taken. So I am just wondering if anyone can give me any insight or advice regarding this issue.</p>

<p>You can look over some past E201 departmental exams to get an idea of the difficulty of E201. As standard admit requirements stand now, you don’t need to take E201 at IUB. You can take it online at Ivy Tech (you can still sign up; I would take W131 (Engl 111) equivalent, too, and get it over with) or somewhere else, transfer the credit to IUB, and then take G202. G202 is much easier than E201. The Kelley standard admit required classes you take then would be M119, A100, G202, C104, and K201. I think that is the easiest set of Icore prereqs/standard admit classes to take to get into Kelley with all solid B’s and above.
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<p>I don’t think you can take W131 at Ivy Tech over winter break. They may have some eight-weeks sessions, but most are 16 weeks.</p>

<p>Do you plan to graduate with 150 credits. Big Four and major regional accounting firms will not interview you unless you state on your resume that you are onpace to graduate with 150 credits. To do that in four years, you will need lots of AP or community college credit, probably at least 20 credits worth. If you take only A100 at IUB your freshman year, you should probably take atleast one or both of A201 and A202 at a cc (not Ivy Tech, though) or someplace else so that you can take A311 and maybe A312 also your sophomore year. That pace will put you way ahead of at least 90% of accounting majors who start IUB in Fall 2014 in terms of how many upper-level accounting classes they have completed prior to Icore. All the upper-level accounting classes must be taken at IUB.</p>

<p>Join and be active in the Student Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi as soon as you can for networking with other accounting students and recruiters. Try to become an officer in at least one of the clubs. Also, be a K201 tutor, as accounting firms want interns to be proficient in Excel.</p>

<p>Hi. thanks for your response (and for the schedule suggestion too). When you say take A201 and A202 at a cc, you mean over next summer right? because I really don’t want to take ivytech during my fall semester (there’s some complications) so I won’t be signing up for E201 in ivytech, I will try to sign up for ivytech w131 during my spring semester. And I have looked over some E201 exams and I think it looks ok to me. </p>

<p>I mean summer 2015. Also, IUB won’t accept credit for A201 and A202 from any Ivy Tech classes, so you would have to take them at IUB, an IU satelite campus, or another university from which IUB accepts credit for these two classes.</p>