Required Elective Courses for Admission to College?

Applying to College
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<p>The other day my guidance counselor informed me that I would not be accepted into any prestigious undergraduate business schools unless I take the elective accounting- which really does not fit into my schedule for next year. </p>

<p>However, from the colleges I have visited thus far, which has only been a couple, they have told me the contrary. In fact, many of them don't care whether or not you have taken business course or not. </p>

<p>Nevertheless, for the past three years of high school, I have one each year: Introduction to Finance, Business Management and Business Law. </p>

<p>What have you heard? Are elective business courses, like accounting, mandatory for admission?</p>

<p>Thanks. :)</p>

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<p>Your GC is nuts given that HS level accounting is practically unheard of in most districts. Frankly your Fin, Bus Mgt and BusLaw classes are very specialized and sound cool. Most schools don't even have them.</p>

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<p>Yeah you already have more buisiness courses than the zero most people applying have. The accounting would be nice, but not if you have to sacrifice other more traditional/rigorous courses to take it.</p>

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<p>lol I wish my school offered better classes. We dont even have German 3 and it looks bad when you only take 2 years of a language</p>

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<p>lol we don't even have German at ALL.
I think you'll be fine; at my school, we don't offer any business related classes. I guess Econ. FBL would be the closest, but taking it doesn't look at good because there's AP Civics/Govt. which replaces the Econ. credit needed to graduate.</p>

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<p>My high school only had Econ, not even AP Econ. I ended up majoring in Econ at an HYP. LOL</p>

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<p>your GC had no idea what she is talking about</p>

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<p>that's not true lol. i hope not, because my school offers it and i dont take it =D</p>

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<p>Complete nonsense on the part of your GC.</p>

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<p>IF your HS has some kind of business magnet program that routinely sends students to "prestigious undergraduate business schools", then your guidance counselor may very well know exactly what he/she is talking about. On the other hand, he/she may just be under pressure from the school to keep all of the business-track courses filled each year and wants you there instead of in some other class. You need to re-visit this issue with your counselor, and make certain of the source(s) of your counselor's recommendation so that you can make a decision about how to deal with his/her suggestions for your academic program.</p>

<p>You also need to take a good hard look at the courses the colleges that you are interested in expect/require their applicants to have so that you can meet those expectations/requirements.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>