I applied to USC as an accounting major, and I just finished my first year undergrad. i took business core classes, gen eds, and one intro to accounting class. I barely got a B- in that acct class, granted I had a bad teacher but even with the help of a one on one tutor I hired it was still a struggle.
I’m considering if I should switch to a business administration major. I didn’t know anything about accounting when I picked it, except my dad is a CPA and I have a very black and white, logical mind and I enjoyed math a lot. My intro class almost scared me away.
I’m a social person, but I always envisioned myself with a career involving numbers and logic. I’m worried if I didn’t grasp the concepts in the intro class that I never will. I feel like achieving CPA status and working for a Big 4 would be too difficult/not enjoyable, but a Business admin major is very broad and I have no idea what I want to do with life, haha.
I am questioning all of this so soon because I don’t want to change my major too late in the game.
Most schools have you officially declare your majors by the end of your sophomore year, but in reality you can just change them whenever you want as long as it fits into your remaining credit schedule. I switched from a declared finance major freshman year to finance & econ sophomore year then to finance & management my senior year.
Finish taking your core business classes and figure out which intro classes you were most interested in: management, marketing, finance, accounting (obv not) then decide.
I think a management major might be up your alley since case studies are largely based on following a logical train of thought ie. game theory.
No need to to declare a major until the end of your sophomore year. Talk to your dad about accounting. You can always take another one or two accounting classes before you declare a major and see how it goes before deciding. You should try to figure out if it was the poor teacher or if accounting just isn’t your thing.
I think that you should ask yourself if you liked the accounting class, it doesn’t matter how well you did in it. If you enjoyed learning about it, then maybe you should give it another try (sometimes a bad teacher can REALLY influence how you view a subject). But if you think you didn’t like it, then maybe it would be a good idea to change your major. In that case, try to see yourself working as something else (in a company, maybe?) Also, you said you like math and logic, what about science?
But I think the main thing is to ask yourself whether you liked the acct class or not, in spite of the grade and the teacher.
Are you female? Because studies of major choice suggest that when a girl gets a bad grade (like a C or B- in your case), the student takes this as signal that she should switch majors. Male students, on the other hand, just keep moving forward after a C (or a B -). This supposedly explains why girls switch out of engineering or economics. I agree with ^, perhaps keep trying with the accounting if you feel like you might like it.