<p>I'll have my Associate in Arts degree for Business Administration in the spring.</p>
<p>My issue is that I want to transfer to a university but all universities I've looked at require another full year of math classes that, for reasons I won't get in to here, I can't take.</p>
<p>My question is this: how set are university admission requirements? The realist in me says "Very", but I've heard of instances where special exceptions are made for students who, while still eventually having to take the classes at the university they transfer to, are accepted without officially meeting the transfer requirements.</p>
<p>I mean, I understand that they're classes that I'll have to take at some point, but I feel that my only shot I have at passing them is to take them at a university.</p>
<p>If transferring as a business major isn't an option then would it be possible to get my associate's degree in business administration as planned, but transfer as an English major? The English transfer requirements are far less stringent and the liberal arts math course that I've already taken to meet my associate's math requirement looks to be the only math course I'd ever have to take.</p>
<p>Initially I was against majoring in English given how many people speak derisively about English degrees, but reading around (including this very topic) it seems as if in most cases there's really very little difference in most liberal arts degrees to businesses and if it means the difference between getting into a university and not being able to, I'd easily change my focus to English.</p>
<p>Naturally, I'd need to meet the English transfer requirements, but most schools I've looked at really don't have specific requirements like most other majors require.</p>
<p>If you meet the transfer requirements for the major that you want to enter at the new school, there should be no problems. At many colleges and universities, students aren’t required to declare a major until the end of their sophomore year or the beginning of their junior year. Many students change their majors multiple times during their educations. Changing from business to English really isn’t a big deal.</p>
<p>I have another question that I may as well ask here given that it’s related to my initial question.</p>
<p>I’m taking a course (accounting) that has been rendered unnecessary by my major switch and I’m wondering if, should I be forced to drop it (and there is a very real possibility of that happening), will it adversely affect my chances of admission? </p>
<p>The only reason I don’t simply drop it right now is because I failed it when I took it last fall and it’s the only F on my transcript. If I were to pass with even a C, the F would be replaced and my GPA would improve to a more respectable level.</p>
<p>One would think that dropping a class that’s inessential to any degree or transfer requirements wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m nervous about it just the same.</p>
<p>Since there is the possibility of changing an F to a C, you should make an effort to stick it out.</p>
<p>However, if you do end up with a W for this term, you will have to just live with it. If you are asked about it in the future, you can always say (probably truthfully) that when you took that course, and had so much difficulty with it, you realized that the business major just isn’t for you.</p>