<p>dman,
I know a LOT of students who try to do this…it’s hard to do because a LOT of students want to to this.</p>
<p>Every year, a few students are successful in doing it, but many more aren’t, and then complain that they’ve been shafted, even though the writing was on the wall.</p>
<p>Getting the highest gpa of all the kids wanting to transfer is perhaps the smaller problem…getting all of the classes you need to transfer, and so you don’t fall behind and need to pay for additional semesters, is a bigger problem…there are only so many slots in prereq classes and obviously the already admitted business majors have priority.</p>
<p>One strategy is to have lots of hours from APs and community college classes so you have a better registration priority…it may help you get prereqs.</p>
<p>U of I and IU have business schools that are set up on different models. U of I basically fills the business school with incoming freshmen and internal transfers are for all practical purposes limited by the number of slots that become available. </p>
<p>IU seems to set up their business school with a mechanism by which a good number of students can declare for the business school at the end of freshman year merely by taking the required classes (basically the business school curriculum) and doing well in all of the classes (B or better); however, it seems that the standards for internal transfer at IU are being raised somewhat as a result of over-demand and this might get more difficult to do in the future.</p>