Have I gone Nuts or Planning Ok?

[Nxt]

<p>I am a transfer Student accepted to McCombs for Fall 2009 & Majoring in Corporate/Banking/Investment Finance and Minors in MIS (like 'em Both)</p>

<p>First off, I would like to start out by saying "Never Trust One Person's Words. ALWAYS get different opinions. Unfortunately, most advisers are not reachable on the phone but the crew that sits there is Totally useless when it comes to in-depth degree requirement questions. They will answer proudly and with great confidence and provide false statements that are WORSE than if they had not just said "I dont know sir/man". (Excuse me if I sound too heated, but I just had to vent that somewhere) </p>

<p>Here are some questions for some of you to help out if you know:</p>

<p>For the Finance major at McCombs, what are the Basic Education Requirements For Fine Arts, Humanities, and all that Visual Arts stuff If you can just list the number the classes, and credit hours next to it, that would be perfect. (i have created a schedule on assumptions, but still not sure)</p>

<p>And another question is: How does this schedule look for the next 3 years for a transfer student majoring in Finance and minoring in MIS at McCombs?</p>

<p>--Fall 2009--:<br>
BA 101<br>
HIST 315K<br>
UGS 302
STAT 309
Fine Arts </p>

<p>--Spring 2010--:<br>
BA 324
HIST 316L
ENGL 316K
MIS 301
Fine Arts
PE</p>

<p>--Summer 2010--: (At a Community College)
Government 310L
Government 312L</p>

<p>--Fall 2010--:
Fin 357
Marketing 337
LEB 323
Accounting 326
MIS Minor Course</p>

<p>--Spring 2011--:
Fin 367
Management 336
Statistics 371G
Upper Division Non-Business Elective
MIS Minor Course</p>

<p>--Summer 2010--:
Internship + Work</p>

<p>--Fall 2011--:
Fin 353
Fin Track Course
Fin Track Course
Upper Division Non Business Elective
MIS Minor (Additional) Course</p>

<p>--Spring 2012--:
Fin 370
Fin Track Course
Fin Track Course
MIS Minor Course
MIS Minor (Additional) Course</p>

<p>--Summer 2012--:
Internship + Work</p>

<p>CLEP Exams taking: Chem 301 & 302 & Psych Introductory </p>

<p>Then there are three plans from there: </p>

<p>1) Get some work experience 2-3 years before MBA
2) Go straight into MBA or Masters in Finance
3) Apply to Heaven before the deadline: December 21, 2012</p>

<p>Feedback will be really Appreciated!</p>

[nerd855]

<p>Instead of someone having to copy and paste all that stuff:</p>

<p>Go on UT direct, click on site map, go to academics and click on degree audit.
Then go to the IDA Planner and put in all the classes that you listed.</p>

<p>You can sort it by date and you pick from a list so it’s really easy. Also you can add tests and whatnot so it calculates how many credits you transfer and take in residence.</p>

<p>Go to degree audit and create audit, pick your major and minor - in the first drop bar pick business administration or something like that, then click on finance and then you need to click on ‘all degree plans for finance’ at the end of the list to add the minor to it, pick minor and yadda yadda, click the yes bubble next to include planned courses (last one, in gray I think). If you don’t pick this it wont show the classes you put in the planner.</p>

<p>Then click on view audit, click on the major, click on the detail link in the right column.</p>

<p>And then it will show you all the classes you need and stuff (credits and whatnot) and what you have completed and all that jazz.</p>

<p>I think you have one too many classes for your minor though. You only need 12 credits so four classes if they are 3 credits each.</p>

[Nxt]

<p>you just gave it away …thanksalot!</p>

[theloneranger]

<p>You are planning WAY too far ahead. You have no idea where your interests are going to take you each semester. Plan a semester at a time so you can be flexible with your requirements.</p>

[Fiyero]

<p>I was going to post about degree audit also but see nerd already has. It is an incredible tool so use it to supplement/replace the info given by advisors. </p>

<p>I would also suggest trying to find some way to stretch the gen ed requirements out. You have them all in the first year and then just McCombs courses after that. Try to balance it out.</p>

[Nxt]

<p>I know what you’re saying Fiyero but my third and fourth courses are all upper division and finance major courses. Also, I was planning to get rid of those general studies classes first in my coming sophmore year. Someone from McCombs office told me that I can only take upper division courses if I have more than 60 credit hours and I will only have 62 by the end of my sophomore year so I was also concerned about that (idk they could be wrong but I have to wait till orientation). If you feel I am diving in too deep, please…you are welcome to do a possible rearrangement of classes and I would really appreciate that, after all, opinions matter so much.</p>

[nerd855]

<p>I don’t think you have planned too far ahead. I’ve done the same thing to make sure I will graduate on time. It’s not set in stone or anything because I’m sure there will be scheduling issues. </p>

<p>And yes you have to have 60 credits to register for most upper division classes. Some of them are open to people who dont though. But I dont know if business does that.</p>

<p>You might want to switch so that every semester you have something that is not business. But again I’m doing the same thing, I’m going to be done with all the core this fall except for my upper division writing one and then take classes for my majors/minor for the rest of the time.</p>

[Nxt]

<p>yea I was told that “external transfers have many exceptions” after I told them that I’ve heard different responses from everyone in the office. And I also did a degree audit for my major/minor on UT Direct and then called the office to resolve another problem. It was then when I also found out that the updated degree audit is also wrong, as they put it as “just not updated with some exceptions” I personally think it’ll be all B.S until I actually speak to a real advisor 1v1 to resolve the issues. So I’ve stopped planning ahead until I get that half a page of questions answered on July the 6th.</p>