<p>Hello everyone, I am considering attending Indiana University - Bloomington and majoring in accounting. I would like to get a feel for how difficult and/or interesting students think it is, specifically at IU Bloomington. </p>
<p>To give some background, I am a junior at Fishers High School in Indiana. I get all A's, got a 2120 on the SAT, and have a 4.3 weighted GPA on a 4 point scale. I have taken numerous honors and AP classes, and I am generally smart enough to get A's in them doing virtually no homework or studying outside of school. I do complete all assignments, I just get them done at school. I realize that I will have to actually study and work hard in college, and I am prepared to do that.</p>
<p>I would appreciate any and all information available. I have gotten an A in the first semester of M119 through a dual-credit program (ACP) at my school, and will probably get an A for the class. It has been spread over 2 semesters at my school, but I find it easy. Thanks for reading this, and please respond how hard and/or interesting you think accounting is, specifically at IU Bloomington.</p>
<p>You will have no problem based upon your stats. In fact, you will do great at IUB. I can’t comment on how interesting it would be for you. There are many other options in addition to accounting at Kelley. You can double major if you have enough AP credits. Look through other threads about scholarship opportunity.</p>
<p>You should have no problem at IU. My daughter is a senior there, although she is currently doing a spring internship at a CPA firm, and she went to FHS as well. She took accounting 1 and 2 at FHS (with Spargo I believe) to see if she would like accounting and that not only prepared her well, but she decided she liked it. It really made A-100 (which is a Kelley weed out class) very easy for her. If you do decide to go to IU, here’s a recommendation. My daughter had Intermediate Accounting 1 last year and went with a grad student as her teacher, and she really liked him and thought he was great. This fall, for Intermediate 2, she again went with a grad student (different one, but when you choose your courses it just says “staff”), and he was one of the worst teachers she has ever had. So it’s hit or miss, but my advice is when you get past the first accounting classes, try to take classes with actual professors, not grad students. I don’t know how many options you will have, but really, at that level it’s disappointing IU doesn’t have ONLY professors teaching. If you go with an accounting major, after you get past the Kelley pre-reqs, the accounting classes will give you the most work. She has breezed through all the other classes, and is double majoring in accounting and management, with an international business co-major and Spanish minor, and really only the accounting classes are a lot of work. FHS does a really good job preparing students for college and with your stats, you will do just fine at IU.</p>
<p>I actually just finished the first semester of Accounting 1 with Spargo as well. It is one of my favorite classes and I think it is pretty interesting. As of now, I will continue to plan on majoring in accounting at IU. Did your daughter live in a Kelley LLC? If she did, could you let me know what she thought about it and whether it was a good decision? Thanks for your response.</p>
<p>No, she did not live in the Kelley LLC. She was in Teter freshman year. The Kelley LLC is in the Northwest quad and those dorms are notorious for the party scene. She was not interested in that freshman year and she had heard it was very noisy, and Teter is more centrally located, so she went with Central as her first choice for dorms. She was ok with that; she made friends with people in her accounting classes.</p>