<p>I just got done with Orientation. </p>
<p>I am a finance major in the Kelley School of Business</p>
<p>Bus-A100(second 8 weeks with Vivian Winston as my teacher)
CMLT- C 151 Intro to popular culture
Eng- W 131 Elementary Composition
Math M 119 Brief Survey of Calculus
Psy- P 101 Introductory Psychology
BUS- X 104 Business Presentations</p>
<p>All together it is 16 credits. Does it look easy or tough and do you have any suggegstions on anything to change?</p>
<p>advisors are useless, switch out of communication and take an easy gen ed blowoff.</p>
<p>Everything else looks typical.... m119 A100 may be challenges.</p>
<p>Yah it's a very typical schedule. There are better
alternatives for easy As than Psychology, so fish
around a bit more. Unless...you like psychology.
Then it works hahaha.</p>
<p>Good job in getting Winston BTW. Although...I
suspect that Tiller will still be writing her tests.
Since she is in the second half of the semester,
there's no breathing room for failing that class
now. I opted to just go tiller first 8 weeks in the
case that I failed and had to use an extended-x
for the second half of the first semester.</p>
<p>IF you fail, then you have to burn a second semester
slot to take him, and that would eat up studying
time. So, no margin for error. Then again, Winston
might be a good teacher and you'll pass the first
time around, even if the tests are written by tiller :)</p>
<p>My adviser told me not to take accounting first semester, unless I really wanted to, so I choose computers in business instead.</p>
<p>My schedule goes like this:</p>
<p>Eng-L 141 intro to writing and the study of lit I
Math M-118 Finite
Bus-K 201 the comp in business
Tel-T 101 Media Life
Hist-B 226 Mafia and other italian mysteries</p>
<p>I was thinking of taking G - 100 business in the information age, but I wasn't sure of the difficulty of that course. I feel I might as well get a lot of the humanities gen eds and stuff out of the way now and take a more focused business schedule later. Will Kelley admissions see this as a positive or negative not taking so many additional business classes?</p>
<p>Cyberkil, not meaning to criticize, but your schedule is not very good, especially for a non direct admit.</p>
<p>L141-- way too much of a hassle to get the W131 type requirement out of the way. L141 requires more writing than W131, since it is a four hour class and meets four times a week. I would just take W131 (meets three times a week and fulfills Kelley English comp requirement).</p>
<p>K201 is a tough class to take first semster. You might take K201 2nd semester, and take CSCI A110 first semester to ease you into K201 (a lot of overlap in these two courses, so A110 will get you prepared for K201).</p>
<p>Take A100 first semester and try to get it out of the way, or at least give yourself more chances to pass the class. If you take it 2nd semester first eight weeks and don't get at least a "C", you will have to pass it second eight weeks or go to summer school in order to be on schedule to complete A201 and A202 your sophomore year and be on course to take I-Core first semester of junior year.</p>
<p>Take X100 this fall and do not take G100 at all. X100 is easier and either class will meet Kelley entrance requirement. A big majority of Kelley applicants take X100 rather than G100. Last fall semester 41 students took G100; 1,369 took X100.</p>
<p>No reason to take Hist-B 226 Mafia and other italian mysteries. You need two 300-level classes to fulfill distribution option. Most people take three one-hundred level S&H classes and two three-hundred level S&H classes. A two-hundred level class is unnecessarily difficult, and this class looks like a risk to your GPA.</p>
<p>You might take this semester:
A100
X100
W131
M118
CSCI A110 (easy N&M class; will get you ready for K201)
SOC S110 Charts, Graphs, and Tables (a very easy N&M class that has no lab; hurry though, only five seats left, according to real time scheduling database)</p>
<p>I think if you make drop/adds within 48 hours of choosing your first classes, there is no fee.</p>
<p>This will give you 16 credit hours, which is typical for a pre-Kelley freshman first semester.</p>
<p>Take BUS K201 and M119 Calculus your second semester and you have what you need to apply to Kelley.</p>
<p>Im a finance major and not yet into the kelly school, my schedule is</p>
<p>A 100- basic accounting skills
W 131- composition
M118- finite mathmatics
X 100- intro to business
H 101- world in 20th century
G 109 weather and climate</p>
<p>would this schedule be alright for a freshman year first semester and put me on the way to getting into kelly? any advice?</p>
<p>Okay, I changed a few things around according to your recommendations.</p>
<p>I'm in A-100 2nd eight weeks with Winston
W-131
M-118
PSY-P 101
TEL-T 101</p>
<p>I'm trying to find another class to replace with the mafia one. X-100 was only at a terrible time slot, and SOC S110 conflicted. I researched the CSCI A110 class and people were saying Pope was a terrible professor, and the class was just as awful.</p>
<p>Okay, I replaced the history class with COLL-E 104 Global consumer culture.</p>
<p>All my electives are S&H, except for intro to psych which is N&M.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to take X100 next semester, along with K201. I'm also awaiting AP scores, I think I may have gotten a high enough score on my AP Macroecon test to get out of intro to macro at IU.</p>
<p>I would not put a whole lot of weight in rate my professor evaluations of A110, or a lot of freshman level classes for that matter. A lot of people who are not suited for college (and a lot of IU freshmen are not for many reasons) will not like the workload. The important skills-- the stuff applicable to K201-- won't be taught by Pope (he does the lecturing), but by lab instructors in the small lab sessions.</p>
<p>Content overlap is evident here:
Indiana</a> University Kokomo
CSCI</a> A110 Comprehensive Calendar: Lecture and Lab</p>
<p>People who stick out the class pick up lots of skills that can be used to raise their K201 grade (important when you are competing to get into Kelley) and grading for those who complete the class is pretty good:
Grade</a> Distribution Report</p>
<p>Here are videos of some of the applications learned in K201. The more exposure you have to Excel going in the better.
Office</a> 2007 in Business
Internet</a> Archive: Details: K201 Spring 2006 Excel Review Session - Indiana Univeristy</p>
<p>Thanks for the info, I'll look into it. At least I know there's a podcasting and video section for old classes, that can be useful.</p>
<p>I'll be attending orientation this upcoming weekend. I am a Kelley direct admit and I'm considering these courses for the Fall:
Eng-W 131 (3)
Bus-A 100 WINSTON (1)
Econ-E 201 Intro to Micro (3)
SOC-S 110 charts, graphs & tables (3)
HPER E 119 Personal Fitness (2)
MUS Z 401 Music of the Beatles (3)</p>
<p>I have already completed Finite Math, Calculus, 6 credit hours worth of History, and 3 credit hours in S100 statistical literacy at a C.C.</p>
<p>How does this schedule look? Are there any more business pre-reqs i should be taking first semester or any different gen-eds courses i should register for instead?</p>
<p>I'll be attending the international orientation dates which are Aug 24... do you think I'll be stuck with the crappiest classes? is there a way where you can pick your classes before orientation? also thanks for your reply in the other thread</p>