<p>Most people take Icore fall of junior year. For finance, it is a good idea to take it that semester, as Icore is a prerequisite for almost all of the upper-level finance classes (G345 can be taken for finance major credit before taking Icore, but microecon is a prerequisite). </p>
<p>As far as wondering if their is time to complete all the Icore prerequisites, you have a list of all the required classes in the bulletin and that list won’t change. You can plan out all the courses and when and where they should be taken. If you do only four or five Icore prerequisites in freshman year in Bloomington, then you will probably need community college credit from summer school, especially if A100 is not taken freshman year, as A100, A201, and A202 need to be completed in three different semesters if you take them on the Bloomington campus. I know kids that have taken A201 and A202 at cc in the same summer and transferred it to IUB. Microeconomics is a good one to take before getting to IUB, as it is a prerequisite for G202 and also tough grading at IUB. But you need to plan the whole schedule, which can be done with all the IUB online resources and info from your community college. Some states this is hard to do; like California, which doesn’t even offer summer community college anymore at many schools because of the budget cuts.</p>