On the common app where you list your current courses, there’s a drop down menu for each. Categories are things like English, social studies, elective, etc. How would you categorize IB Business Management HL?
I don’t know if this is an “official” answer (and I am not sure it matters really), but as I understand the content of the IB Business Management course, that would count to me as a Social Science course, which is good enough to call it Social Studies.
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Thank you!
Is it an ECON class or a Business class? If it’s not ECON but a business class, it would not be a social science. Econ is a social science. But business does not = ECON.
If there are the 5 topics below - this would not be a social science or social studies. If they don’t have a category for business, then I’d label it an elective. In fact, my daughter had a class in the Entrepreneurship Center and would have labeled it an elective if there’s not a business category.
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It really doesn’t matter. If the admissions officer feels that it’s categorized incorrectly, they’ll change it. No harm, no foul.
But for UC/CSU applications, it’s a G elective.
For the Common App, you can make the case for either, particularly since IB puts it in Group 3. But again, it really doesn’t matter
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Thanks, all! He currently has it labeled as an elective and will probably leave it that way. I think UGA has a a way to categorize non core IB classes when self reporting grades but this class doesn’t fit neatly into the common app categories.
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