Kelley Questions

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Hi I’m an incoming freshman at Kelley in the fall and I plan on Majoring in Finance and Professional Sales with a comajor in Business Analytics with a minor in Spanish and Sports Management with the hopes of working for a team someday but an open mind. I know it’s a lot but I made a four year plan (because I enjoy that stuff) and found I can make it all work with the AP credit I have and taking finite and science this summer and icore in the summer later. I do have a couple questions

  1. are there certain classes one must take for Kelley honors? Or is it just gpa? I currently am taking K204,T134, SPH m211 and 328, Hon 232, A100, m119 this semester and will do other icore pre reqs (honors version prob) next semester
  1. What kind of credit do you get for study abroad? Do you get finance credits or is it more arts and humanities
  2. Are the majors/minors good for the sports management industry? I already know/have read all the stuff about Mark Cuban and the limited jobs/ little pay it does not daunt me
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Click “apply” in this link to see requirements to see the criteria for getting into Business Honors:

http://kelley.iu.edu/Ugrad/Academics/Honors/page39063.html

You have to get a 3.7 GPA and take at least 26 credits your freshman year to be considered, but you can still be denied if you reach those numbers. Also, you have to take I-Core during the fall semester of your junior year if you are in Business Honors, so your plan wouldn’t work if you want to do the honors program.

http://kelley.iu.edu/Ugrad/Academics/Honors/page39233.html

I have no idea on questions 2 and 3 except that sales would probably be a good major if you want to work in the sports industry, because your job would likely be in sales.

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Do you plan to graduate in 4 years? I took a quick look at the requirements for all of those majors, co-majors and minors and there is little or no overlap and quite a few credit hours! Finance 27 cr, Business Analytics 15 cr, Sales 21 cr, Sports Mgmt 21 cr, Spanish 12 cr - that’s all in addition to required gen eds and Kelley core requirements. I don’t think it’s possible to finish all that in 4 years, especially if you include study abroad.

My daughter studied in Barcelona spring semester junior year through the CIEE Business & Culture program. She is Kelley Honors with Finance major, Tech Management co-major and Spanish minor. So you would be going for one more major and one more minor than her! With the CIEE Barcenlona B&C program you have to take at least 1 Spanish class and 1 humanities class. She saved one of her A&H credits specifically for study abroad. In addition, she HOPED to take 1 Finance required course, 1 Finance elective and 1 Management course. It didn’t work out, and she ended up with 2 humanities, 1 finance, 1 management and 1 Spanish. The 2nd humanities class didn’t fill any requirements. Now she will have full schedules both semesters senior year, where she had hoped to have a lighter load. With your plans, you wouldn’t have any room to take classes that do not meet any requirements. While she only has experience with the CIEE B&C study abroad program, I think it is likely that for any study abroad program you will not get the exact classes you need, either because they are not offered or they fill quickly.