<p>I'm in high school right now and a direct admit to Kelley, double majoring in accounting and finance. I know this is quite early, but what classes would I take freshman year both fall and spring semesters? I will have gotten out of macroecon, microecon, calc 1, and the english requirement from AP tests. I will also be taking finite math over the summer at a community college to transfer in.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not in Hutton</p>
<p>You will find some good older posts here on the IUB thread, but you have to search a bit. First, in case you don’t know the basic requirements, check out <a href=“Indiana University Bloomington”>Indiana University Bloomington;
<p>When we visited IU my daughter’s senior year in high school, they gave us a very nice requirements checklist, but I can’t find a copy of it online anywhere. If any current students know what I’m talking about, and know if/where it can be found online, please post it here. It lists all the IUB Gen Ed requirements, I-Core Pre-reqs and Other Kelley requirements along with their prereqs and credit hours. Really handy!</p>
<p>Freshman year you will definitely take: Business Presentations BUS-C 104 (3 cr), Kelley Compass I BUS-T 175 (1.5 cr), Computer in Business BUS-K 201 (3 cr) and Basic Accounting BUS-A 100 (1 cr, 8 weeks). </p>
<p>I strongly recommend taking BUS-A 100 1st semester and then taking Financial Accounting BUS-A 201 or Managerial Accounting BUS-A 202 2nd semester. Then you can take the other accounting class 1st semester sophomore year and you will be able to start taking Finance classes 2nd semester sophomore year (assuming there are openings). My daughter, currently a sophomore, did not do this, and it’s sort of messing things up now. She will be taking Managerial Accounting 2nd semester sophomore year so she can’t take any Finance classes until 2nd semester junior year, since 1st semester junior year is I-Core. </p>
<p>Also, if you take BUS-K 201 1st semester, you can take Technology BUS-X 201 2nd semester. That will be the most optimal way to fill as many I-Core prereqs as possible freshman year. Then fill in the rest with GenEd classes and throw in a fun PE class.</p>
<p>ok thank you so much</p>
<p>Taking A201 and A202 won’t qualify a student to take upper-level finance classes. You need to take Icore in order to take those. An exception is G345, which qualifies as an upper-level finance class. E201 microecon and E202 macroecon are the prerequisites for G345. </p>
<p>You can, however, start taking upper level accounting classes before taking Icore if you have completed A201 and A202. A student who used to post here took A201 and A202 summer after freshman year; then took A311, A312, A325, and A329 all during sophomore year as an accounting/finance double major. It really isn’t that difficult, however, to take all the upper level courses required for the accounting/finance double major after taking Icore during first semester of junior year. It is easier, however, if you get one or two of the upper levels out of the way before Icore.</p>
<p>bthomp1, you’re right - A201 and A202 allow you to take upper-level accounting classes, not upper-level finance classes. I got confused because many upper-level accounting classes are required for the Finance major. I knew not having A201 and A202 completed yet was preventing my daughter from taking any classes that count toward the Finance major, I just forgot that they are classified as accounting classes, not finance. I assume those same classes count toward the Accounting major, which I’m not familiar with since my daughter is not an accounting major :)</p>
<p>Either way, I think taking A201, A202, E201 and E202 as early as possible gives a student more flexibility in spreading out classes for their major. </p>
<p>But (and it’s a big BUT), as my daughter is finding out, meeting the prerequisites does not mean you will be able to register for the class, because they might all be closed by the time you register! My daughter registers today and is facing the frustrating fact that two of the 5 classes she was planning to take next semester are already filled with wait lists that are longer than the number of seats in the class. This is throwing off her entire 4-year plan and she may have to give up on the Technology Management co-major. If only she had taken A202 this semester. Sigh… And the reason she didn’t take A202 this semester is because she wanted to take A207 (the honors version) which is only offered spring semester, and she just texted me that all sections of A207 are full! </p>
<p>Sorry to hijack this thread with my rant, thanks for listening :)</p>
<p>Good luck trying to work ahead on your classes! The upperclassman have priority for scheduling, and the underclassman do not have much flexibility because classes close up fast. It has been a very frustrating experience for my daughter (direct admit, and in Business Honors) because there is not much wiggle room.</p>
<p>Kelley attracts so many high achieving hs students these days, with many coming in with 30-40 AP credits, so it is more and more difficult each year to register for Kelley upper level classes when you want them. That’s one of the reasons I think loading up on cc classes summer before starting and the summer after and, if you are an accounting majore, even the summer between soph and jr years, as most good accounting internships aren’t available till summer before senior year. These classes help you catch up for registration purposes. My son had only three credits earned while in hs, but had something like 94 by the end of sophomore year, so that he got all the best profs for upper levels. </p>
<p>Stbentpympest, I agree taking A201, A202, E201 and E202 early is a good way to set you up for accounting and finance double major. You can usually take all those at most cc’s (but not the two accounting classes in the Ivy Tech system). Sometimes sophomores can get into the 8:00 am upper levels, but that is probably had to do these days. But if everybody had huge numbers of hours, then it will be hard to get ahead in your schedule, especially if Icore is a prerequisite for the upper levels and you are locked into Fall jr year honors Icore like paddlemom3’s daughter. Kelley doesn’t offer many honors accounting sections, and they can be difficult to get into, especially since Hutton students can sign up for them without being in Kelley honors.</p>
<p>Typical classes:
A100-Basic Accounting
C104-Business Presentations
T175-Kelley Compass 1
K201-Computer in business
G202-Business government and society
L201-Legal environment of business</p>
<p>Non-Kelley Classes typically you might take:
Arts and Humanities
Language</p>
<p>When you get here/if you come here you will go over it with your counselor and I think you will find them incredibly helpful in creating an academic map for your time here.</p>