Spring Term Course Selection

<p>I'm a freshman at a business school in MA and I've made up my mind that I will be transferring for Fall 2009 but I'm currently having a problem figuring out what courses to be registering to take next semester. I completed my business requirements for freshmen year this semester and am planning to take French for Business, Calc II, Sociology, Philosophy, History of China, and Comparative Government for the spring semester. These courses fill the general education requirements at my current school and are pretty much my only option since I can't take Intro to Accounting and Econ (both Micro and Macro) until sophomore year. </p>

<p>I am applying to both business programs within universities and into liberal arts programs with strong Economics departments with the hope that I can double major (or major-minor-minor) in econ/finance and something outside of business (right now I'm looking at USC, BC, Northwestern, NYU, and UPenn). I thoguht that taking a less-business focused course load during my spring semester would balance out the fact that I had to take three general business classes and an information technology class this semester. Now my issue is that some schools want to see courses like macro, micro and accounting completed before matriculation. Do I write down in my application that I'll complete these courses in a summer program if accepted? I'd take them now if possible but my school just doesn't allow it and I don't want to have to wait any longer to transfer. I want to make myself as competitive of a candidate as possible but it's a little aggravating that the school I go to now makes that a challenge.</p>

<p>I know that this is pretty focused on a specific program instead of general transfer stuff, but if you guys have any advice for me it'd be much appreciated. Hopefully I'm not the only one who has been in this situation. Thank you!</p>

<p>Everybody wants to be a banker...sigh</p>

<p>Wait, do people STILL want to be bankers? Has no one been watching television? The average hedge fund manager's salary has gone down 90% in the last six months. Go on ebay, there are executives selling the staplers out of their offices to pay their bills.</p>

<p>That doesn't necessarily mean it won't be a good field again in a couple of years when people get out of school though. You shouldn't let a current event keep you from doing what you want to do, unless it was something drastic like the banking profession coming to an end. Everything fluctuates and what may or may not be a good job right now may be in a completely different state when you come out of school.</p>

<p>A fundamental economic theory is that markets fluctuate. They go up and they go down. You can't go up forever and you can't go down forever, either. I'm not very concerned and my job prospects aren't my motivation for leaving what is strictly a business school (but it can certainly be disheartening seeing "Wall Street is gone" as a CNN headline).</p>

<p>Those comments aside, if anybody has recommendations on what I can do it'd be awesome. I'm supposed to register for classes on Thursday but have the option to make some changes over winter break (which will be limited since most courses will be filled by then). Thanks!</p>

<p>Stop discouraging people from being bankers. Just because the economy is bad doesn't mean it'll be like this forever. It's not like people should only major in things that automatically equal money. In my college, I notice a lot of people majoring in Artsy stuff like Art, Art History, East Asian Studies, Literature, Classics, Philosphy, Film...guess what, people who major in those things and don't go to grad school generally don't make a lot of money, but people still willingly shell out over $200,000 to major in Greek for 4 years, don't they?
The job prospects for someone with a degree in finance are a lot better than someone in with a degree in Latin or English Lit, Finance majors are hardly in trouble. If you want a major that automatically = $$$, be an Engineer or Pre-Med.</p>

<p>Just bumping this to try and get some advice before registration day shows up...</p>