<p>I'm new - so this may seem like a obvious or dumb question.
I applied to South Carolina as an incoming freshman - got in and got accepted to the business school. On my application I had indicated I had a interest in accounting. Now, I'm thinking of doing international business and studying spanish as well (I didn't take Spanish in high school - I took four years of Latin and did well in that though).
There's no seperate school of international business, right? Since I'm already accepted into the business school, it would be no problem to switch?</p>
<p>I'm just worried, since the school's international business program is so highly ranked, that I'll have a problem being able to major in it or whatever.
(If it matters - I'm OOS with an act score of 28 and a uw gpa of 3.7)</p>
<p>I don’t think it matters at this point. Just know that International business majors must fill out application to be formally accepted into program in junior year after meeting certain pre-requisites by end of sophmore year, so you can’t just decide to be an international business major. Look at the Moore school of business website to see exactly what’s required.</p>
<p>Are you Honors or Capstone? From what I understand, they’re automatically accepted into the business school. Otherwise, all students are business majors and being an international business major is conditional. You have to apply and be accepted.</p>
<p>So, I don’t think it’s really an issue if you’re not Honors of Capstone. If you are, then you may just be like everyone else and have to apply for the program later on.</p>
<p>Also. I should note. Do NOT count on getting into a Spanish class. I wanted to take Spanish 109 (beginning Spanish) this year, and I had something like 50 credits and wasn’t able to get in. All of the Spanish 109 classes filled up within a day or two of registration starting, so if you’re an incoming freshman, there’s almost no way you’ll get into a class. In addition, they only offer 109 in the fall, so you’d be a second semester junior before you got into 200+ class, which makes it really difficult to complete the language requirements for the IB major on time. (If you took sophomore 109/110, junior 122)</p>
<p>If you want to do Spanish, I’d consider taking it in summer school at a local community college so that you could maybe place into 121 or 122 (which are offered both semesters).</p>
<p>I work in the language department, and they generally don’t offer overrides for Spanish unless you’re a Spanish major, so it’s a really hard class to get into at the early levels.</p>
<p>^Yes. First-semester freshmen don’t register for classes until their orientation session which isn’t until June or July.</p>
<p>Upperclassmen register for classes during the spring semester.</p>
<p>You get assigned a time for registration that supposedly is based on your class ranking. In general, students with disabilities go first, then student athletes, then seniors, then juniors, etc. Apparently certain majors register before others, but I’m just a normal student in the CAS and I always seemingly had an earlier time than all of my friends who are the same year as me, including some people who have a few more credit hours than I do.</p>
<p>kearbear…Good advice is to go to earliest orientation possible. I think you were accepted to honors? That’s who will advise you during the summer. USC will sometimes add some sections or spaces to classes near end of summer, but it’s good to go early then you can monitor over summer and change if needed (or if you have to change something based on final AP score).</p>
<p>After you get to USC (spring registration), as an honor student you have two advisors and the one from honors will register you for honors classes, then you register for other classes based on time like AUGirl describled. They do count all your credits, so APs will put you ahead of freshmen with fewer hours. Your honors advisement time is also based on credit hours.</p>
<p>Thanks scmom12. I am concerned because I currently take AP French and Honors Spanish 2 and I want to continue both languages in college. I will be eventually majoring
in IB / Marketing or Finance/ Minor French. I will most likely be taking a required freshman course or two at our community college over the summer to allow me to have time in my schedule to continue both languages at USC. Will I have to have my language proficiency tests / math results back before I can register for classes?</p>
<p>^If you’ve taken Spanish in high school, you should probably be able to place into at least Spanish 121. You might have a little difficulty getting into that class, but not nearly as much as you would for 109.
(The sequence for language learning at USC is 109 and 110 OR 121 then 122.
So, if you’ve never taken a language before, you take: 109, then 110, then 122
If you have taken a language before, but aren’t very proficient, you might take 121, then 122)</p>
<p>121 and 122 are offered every semester. 109 is only offered in the fall for Spanish.</p>
<p>I’m a French major and I know a lot of IB major/French minors.</p>
<p>I took AP French in high school and placed into 300-level French. Had absolutely no trouble getting a space in a class. I’m currently taking German 110 and had no trouble getting space in German. The only language class that is difficult to get into is Spanish. But if you can place into 121, your chances of getting into a class improve dramatically.</p>
<p>Also, make friends with upperclassmen once you get to USC. You can get other students to hold classes for you during registration.</p>
<p>kearbear…you do your language test the day before orientation at USC. First part on computer…if you get a high enough score you move on to oral which places you into higher levels. Math you do online from home ahead of time. There are 2 math (algebra or calc) placements depending on your major and there are practice tests and if you do it soon enough, you can repeat them (with certain wait time between). In math (and I assume in language) AP results are honored above placement and you can “predict” results for purposes of orientation since AP scores not in yet.</p>
<p>First orientation may well be before actual graduation for you…still encourage you to come ASAP. Check orientation and testing page for more info. You can’t count on it, but when D was freshman one of her friends registered after all span121 was full and they added a whole new section right at beginning on school.</p>