<p>I was accepted to MSB and would like to know in general how difficult the classes are. I am thinking of majoring in International Business and possibly finance or marketing.</p>
<p>anyone have an answer?</p>
<p>Hey, I’m studying International Business and Finance. Basically, grades are severely curved, but not inflated. The majority of people will receive a “B” as the curve states only 30% can get an A and the average must be a 3.0 per class. That said, it is hard to stand out with A’s and an average GPA of 3.2-3.4 is what you’re looking at. </p>
<p>Likewise, MSB is extremely competitive. It’s not uncommon to approach someone in your class to work on an assignment together to get rejected for fear of messing up the curve. However, that adds to the motivation for some people, discourages others. The school is geared towards investment banking and Wall Street and the environment is very career oriented. Personally, I love the school and we have soem great faculty. Anything specific you would like to know? The classes, from my experience are laid out clearly with no tricks just a good amount of time spent at the Hariri building and cups of coffee haha :)</p>
<p>@michaelungerrr: I will also be attending MSB this fall, I am looking forward to the next four years but a little concerned about the amount of homework and workload in general. Also is the math calculus requirement difficult? (I have taken precalc/ intro to calc in high school) Any help would be amazing, thank you :)</p>
<p>How many hours are you in class and doing school work?</p>
<p>Calculus was difficult for me and I had taken Calc 1 in high school. Most of the professors assume you have had AP Calc and go in depth as their are no “Business Calc” classes. That said, my professor was geared toward physics -_- </p>
<p>Homework is generally reasonable; problem sets aren’t too bad. The curriculum changed so that you start off taking Financial Accounting and Statistics first semester which is rough in my opinion. Again though, many professors do not assign ‘homework’; college is much different. You’ll get a feel for things, but the most important thing I will stress is that it is competitive with the curve, but sometimes the competition is great motivation. </p>
<p>@pcarlitz thats kind of hard to answer I’ve taken 2-3 business classes/semester and each one varies, but be prepared to work.</p>
<p>If there is anything else I can try to answer it as best I can about MSB or Georgetown in general</p>
<p>Are the other schools as competitive? I applied to NHS.</p>
<p>I cannot speak from experience naturally, but I would guess no given their is no curve (Economics Department may have on, it varies).</p>
<p>@michaelungerrr: Thank you so much! can you please suggest some professors to stay away from?</p>
<p>Wait, there’s no curve for most of the NHS classes/departments?</p>
<p>what do you think would be harder, international econ in sfs or finance/international biz in msb. I got into the latter but am thinking that the international econ might be a more interesting way to spend my 4 years</p>
<p>@shuxinder youre getting way too specific. I can’t answer that. Don’t be nervous, youll see when you get here. </p>
<p>@greenpenguin65 not that I am aware of, no.</p>
<p>@sumx724 It really depends, I think IEcon may me a bit more difficult. Generally a lot of classes overlap so if there is a specific area you want to study that is only offered at SFS maybe switch if not, possibly minor? Im doing an econ minor and take 6 econ classes total then have room for 2 more if I desire.</p>
<p>is it possible to major from msb and minor from sfs?</p>
<p>no, only the college.</p>
<p>ah i see i was thinking about minoring in comp sci so im gonna have to see how much the workload will be if i want to do this next year</p>
<p>keep an open mind, youll change that. i guarantee it.</p>