<p>I am an incoming student at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. Part of my freshman schedule includes Principles of MicroEconomics and Principles of MacroEconomis. When looking at the USC Marshall requirement, it says that Microeconomics for Busines and Macroeconomics for Business must be taking at USC. Does that mean that my microecon and macroecon credits would go to waste? Do BC's econ classes and USC'sbiz econ classes differ in content? If the credits did not transfer would the class be really repetitive? Would those classes count towards other requirements such as the general educatio ones, or would they have to be counted against my electives?</p>
<p>As a transfer they make you retake both micro and macro as well as financial/managerial accounting (which is thankfully combined into one class). The econ classes were repetitive but also more in depth and utilized more calculus than at my previous school.</p>
<p>So would I be better served changing those courses to other pre reqs that BC would require? For example, instead of taking micro and macro econ, take instead two science courses like Physics and Chemistry? That way I am fulfilling courses for my BC core as well as for the USC corE?</p>
<p>Would history courses work two? BC also has a Diversity requirement and a history requirement that go together, and I know that USC does as well. Should I just take those?</p>
<p>Whoops one more thing! BC has a class called Portico which is half intro to business 101 and half Ethics. If you were to guess, do you think that USC would accept this? I am also taking a language. My goal is to have all of my 30-32 credits transfer!</p>
<p>This is an unofficial articulation history showing what classes would transfer over as from different schools" <a href=“https://camel2.usc.edu/articagrmt/artic_hist_range.aspx[/url]”>Error;
<p>I checked and BC is on there so that should help you plan out your schedule so you can knock out degree requirements at BC while setting yourself up to be able to smoothly transfer to other schools like USC as well.</p>
<p>As far as the econ question goes, they changed the curriculum right as I matriculated and now require micro/macro to be taken here so there is no point in taking it beforehand unless you are aiming to transfer to other schools as well. Please see this for the marshall transfer prereqs: [Transfer</a> Students | Business Administration | USC Marshall School of Business](<a href=“Home - USC Marshall”>Home - USC Marshall)</p>
<p>So going off of that, try to knock out the lower level writing requirement(writing 1 & 2), calculus 1, financial & managerial accounting, and classes that would transfer over as GE 1, 2, 3, and 5. That articulation history I linked above should help you figure out classes at BC that will cover all of the above and hopefully cover the degree requirements at BC at the same time. Hopefully you can find courses that cover the BC Core/USC Ge’s at the same time as well as the diversity requirement. The key is to find a class that covers a GE and also qualifies as a diversity class at the same time as well. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>I just found out that I can substitute those econ classes for principles of biology, physics, or chemistry, basically classes for non majors. I think I might do that. Obviously better for credit transfer (right?) but will it affect admissions in any shape or form? Would this fulfill any of the general requirements? Also although USC Marshall is one of my top transfer schools I will also be applying to Penn, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Georgetown, UVA, and UNC for Econ/Business placement. Do you think that for those schools, not taking Econ freshmen year will have any affect on chances, or will there be no difference?</p>
<p>When I transferred, the other two schools I chose between were gtown and nyu which had similar transfer requirements as USC. Penn and Cornell for example have very different transfer requirements for business transfers. Cornell requires two Bio courses in a 1 year sequence and Wharton requires Calc 1 & 2, Stats 1 & 2, micro/macro econ. Each school is different and you have to go look at the transfer pages for the business school like the one I linked for usc. You are best off making a spreadsheet of each school and what business transfer pre-reqs they require.</p>
<p>As to if those classes fulfill USC GE requirements, please see the articulation history link I linked in my previous post and look for those classes from BC from the last few semesters of transfers to see if they transfer over as fulfilling one of the GE categories. Good luck!</p>