Majors Affect Chances of Acceptance

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Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:07:45 +0000

major selection impacts decisions.

business administration is rather hard to get into as an incoming freshman, a transfer student and a change of major applicant.

If you really want to major in it though, there is a way to backdoor your way in. simply take all the core classes during the summer sessions. You can begin doing this even before you start as a freshman.

Normally you’re required to take certain prerequisites for courses. In my experience, this hardly matters with all business school courses other than accounting.(I presently have only As and A+ in my management courses)

The requirements are
A. Lower-Division: Mathematics 2A-B, Economics 20A-B, Management 7, 10, 30A, 30B.
B. Upper-Division Core: Management 101, 102, 105, 107, 109, 110.
C. Business Electives: 10 upper-division Merage School electives*

Section B is what’s hard to knock out. The rest one can take during the year(somewhat impacted still)

if you don’t want to risk possibly being unable to complete your curriculum(which can be easily done over 2 or 3 summers without any need for courses during the year) consider business economics, quantitative economics or taking a minor in management or accounting. FYI most of the time employers don’t care what your major is so long as it’s close. Some things there are practical restrictions on(accounting firms want applicants with an accounting background, engineering firms want engineering backgrounds) careers but most of the time employers look at GPA before they look at major. Just be relevant.