<p>Hello. I'm going to be a sophomore in the fall of next year, accounting major. I am basically done with all my gen eds and pre reqs for the college of business, but heres the "dilemma" although its not really a dilemma. </p>
<p>I cannot take any upper level accounting courses until junior year when I enter the C.O.B., even though I will technically be at junior standing next spring.</p>
<p>Due to doing one summer session and having 5 AP credits coming in, I only have four classes that I NEED to take all of next year to get into the C.O.B.: Financial accounting, managerial accounting, marketing, and quantitative business tools (my school's fancy name for business calc). Likely what I will do is do financial and quant in fall and then managerial and marketing in spring, but I need to have 12 credit hrs a semester in order to receive my bright futures scholarship as a full time student. </p>
<p>So basically, I need four other classes spread over two semesters to fill my schedule, yet I have nothing else I have to take for admission into the C.O.B. Should I just take GPA boosters like Yoga and Golf (yes we actually have yoga and golf! lol) or is there anything more useful I should take? They have a personal finance class that everyone says is very useful in the "real world" so I might take that, but I'm thinking I should take advantage of this situation to pad my 4.0 before I have to take all the upper level accounting and business classes. Anything I should consider as a class or just take advantage of the situation to keep my GPA at (or as close too as possible) a 4.0? Thanks</p>
<p>I don’t know what is considered “upper level” at your school. Is a tax class considered junior level or above? I would imagine so, but if it ins’t then I would recommend getting one of those under your belt.</p>
<p>The personal finance class would be a very good class to take. It will probably aid you from time to time in upper levels, as well.</p>
<p>Have you covered any of the Gen. Ed requirements your school has? (I am assuming you have if you are asking this).</p>
<p>Have you taken a statistics class? This is probably required within the business school, but taking it at the elementary level will: A) Be easy B) Prepare your for the business school version of stats C) Fill a spot in your schedule.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I can’t do a school-sponsored internship. I will, however, be working. Hopefully I can find a local CPA who’s willing to help out an accounting student. I already have a stats credit from an AP class in high school, so anything above that will frankly be more difficult than I’m willing to take when I don’t even need to. By “upper-level” accounting I mean anything above financial accounting and managerial accounting. Thats all I can take before actually being admitted into the C.O.B. in before Junior year. Can’t take any economics classes above the standard macro and micro I already took because they all require the quantitative business tools to be already completed. </p>
<p>As of now it looks like I’ll be taking the personal finance class and yoga, lol. The former is actually useful and the latter, well a room full of girls in yoga pants and an easy A is fine by me! Thats for fall. In spring, the pickings will be even slimmer. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it I guess. </p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions. I pretty much see that I’ll have to take some useless classes, it just angers me that I even have to waste my time taking things like golf and yoga.</p>
<p>Econ was my first suggestion, but you can’t take upper level courses because of the prereqs. I suggest you take a philosophy class. It’s the most fundamental class you can take in college. Philosophy teaches one how to better construct arguments and critique others. Fill up free electives with worthwhile classes. At least I think philosophy classes are worthwhile.</p>
<p>If you’re certain you intend on working as an Accountant (and not considering other non-accounting options with your degree) then I would guess just take the classes that will be easiest for you and/or most enjoyable for you. In the end, cumulative and major GPA is all that matters on the academic side for accounting jobs. However, if you are considering other entry-level careers with your accounting degree (I don’t mean other jobs AFTER you have been an accountant for a few years - then experience trumps everything you did in college), you might consider other quantitative courses that may be relevant to those careers.</p>