<p>So, I applied to mostly liberal arts colleges. At that time, I was planning on being an English major. Shortly thereafter (lol), I decided that business admin/marketing was for me instead--basically I applied to all the wrong schools. Depending on the decisions I receive, in the next two weeks, I plan to try to transfer to an undergrad B-school. By transferring, I know I will be missing the first two years of being in an undergrad B-school. Is this detrimental? Is there any point or advantage of being in an undergrad B-school for the first two years? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Just take the required pre bus classes like calc, econ, stats and you should not miss much.</p>
<p>thats actually pretty funny...I went the exact opposite way. I wanted to be a business major the first two and a half years of high school, and I was looking at major universities with strong business programs, but over winter break I realized that I wanted to be a English major so now I'm looking at small LAC.</p>
<p>for business, just take calculus, calculus, and more calculus. and oh yeah, economics helps also.</p>
<p>If it's any consolation, some business schools are set up to be upperclass only. Ross (at Univetsity of Michigan) used to be that way--students came into Ross as juniors. They've since made it into a 3-year program. The change wasn't so much about trying to cram more business classes in, but about allowing students more flexibility and more electives, as well as making study abroad more feasible.</p>
<p>With that in mind, it may be that by transferring into a business program "late" you're not necessarily disadvantaged, you just have less flexibility in what you put into those last few years.</p>
<p>Depends how good the LACs are. Many of the best business firms actively recruit at the top lacs.</p>
<p>wisconsin u transfer in jounior year anyways</p>
<p>I do transfer admissions for a university with a nationally ranked business school. I recommend that you check the colleges to which you would want to transfer. Some have limited admission for transfer students and/or want specific prerequisite courses completed. The basic prerequisite courses at most schools are calculus, statistics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial accounting, and managerial accounting. Four of those are available at liberal arts colleges, but two are not. This is why transferring after one year is a better idea than transferring after two years. Junior transfers here are expected to have completed all six prerequisites with a 3.5 GPA in those courses or they will never be eligible for transfer into the business school, regardless of the overall GPA or the quality of the school from which they are transferring.</p>
<p>Well it does help to do business your first two years. You graduate faster as you begin ur major coursework eary on however you can do most of the first 2 year courses while not in a business school (not all though).
I do see it as an advantage as u prepare for ur career early on. Most schools do offer the major from freshman year however several school such as Michigan State and University of Michigan dont offer it till junior year.</p>