Alternatives to business major

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Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

Just wanted to bold that part. I was at one of the big banks for 15 years in marketing and spent much of each day working with Excel models or at a Bloomberg terminal. My entire team had to be comfortable with analytics.

I second the recommendation for communications.

Right, so this is not math. This is what marketing people think is math.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just stick with Business. So what if she gets a bad grade in Calculus. You said she isn’t going to grad school, so I’m not sure it matters if she gets a C. Make sure she get extra help/tutoring, if needed.

+1. Just pass the stuff you need to and move on to things you like more.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid is struggling in the business prerequisite courses for Econ and Accounting and most likely will have to switch majors. She took Calculus in high school and barely passed, so anything quantitatively oriented is off the books. She has no idea what she wants to study as she was torn between Comp Sci/Cybersecurity or Business. She feels like Communications won't be stimulating for her. She's an introvert who is more hands on and likes to do research and loves random facts. She also is focused on not obtaining any additional education after her bachelor's as we are only paying for undergrad. I studied business and most of my colleagues have business and tech degrees(or none at all). So my hands are tied here. Suggestions?

Consider The Entrepreneurship if they have it.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Am a bit confused. Most business programs are not math heavy. Is the issue that she isn’t getting good enough grades in the econ and accounting classes? Usually you just have to get through them and then you can focus on what you want (marketing, entrepreneurship, etc).

This just isn't true! Business IS math. Including Marketing. There are no business majors that aren't math heavy. And there are no business careers that aren't math heavy now. Marketing does not equal communications and it does not equal social media. I work for a Fortune 5 company in operations. Our marketing team does analytics all day, every day.

This board is very strange.

OP - I would rec communications as well. She sounds like she could be good at grant or proposal writing. Lots of research, facts and good for an introvert.

Just wanted to bold that part. I was at one of the big banks for 15 years in marketing and spent much of each day working with Excel models or at a Bloomberg terminal. My entire team had to be comfortable with analytics.

I second the recommendation for communications.

Right, so this is not math. This is what marketing people think is math.

Eve if you’re right, OP’s kid failed accounting, so she will probably think it’s math too.

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I’m not sure how someone fails accounting? Like an actual F? Or was it a C and they hated the class but got credit for the course?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure how someone fails accounting? Like an actual F? Or was it a C and they hated the class but got credit for the course?

Lot of business programs use accounting as a weed out course and make it harder than it needs to be. Could be that they were failing part way through and dropped it.

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Anonymous wrote:Early Childhood Education or Speech Therapy.

Mommy track MRS

Op here. I'll veto those choices. Education doesn't pay well and she doesn't want a grad degree(no speech therapy). Plus she isn't the type that's looking for a partner to support her.

Your DD doesn’t get a vote? 🙄

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is she at a rigorous school? Another option is to take core classes at an easier college, or simply to transfer. I would have never passed Finance and Accounting at Lehigh, so I took the classes over the summer at a state university. See if that could help her.

+1. This is a common tactic for hard prerequisites.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Early Childhood Education or Speech Therapy.

Mommy track MRS

Op here. I'll veto those choices. Education doesn't pay well and she doesn't want a grad degree(no speech therapy). Plus she isn't the type that's looking for a partner to support her.

This explains a lot about what’s going on and how OP’s kid ended up in a major they hate with classes they’re failing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure how someone fails accounting? Like an actual F? Or was it a C and they hated the class but got credit for the course?

Lots of people fail accounting. Many people who think they want to get a business degree end up switching to humanities because of the accounting or finance requirement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Early Childhood Education or Speech Therapy.

Mommy track MRS

Op here. I'll veto those choices. Education doesn't pay well and she doesn't want a grad degree(no speech therapy). Plus she isn't the type that's looking for a partner to support her.

This explains a lot about what’s going on and how OP’s kid ended up in a major they hate with classes they’re failing.

Business was her choice. I'm a single parent and my family doesn't have the funds to support her and the same goes for her father's family. He passed when she was a toddler. I'm just looking at what's best for her financial future.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure how someone fails accounting? Like an actual F? Or was it a C and they hated the class but got credit for the course?

She got a D in the course

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Just coming to say, a pmo or project management job is not a good job for an introvert. You have to be able to persuade and negotiate and interact with people, a lot. And it would help if you get energy from that part of your job. Generally, introverts don’t.

I have an mba after a poli sci undergrad degree, and the hardest part of the mba was calculus and stats. Everything else was more attainable. I work for a fortune 100 company in a corporate strategy now. If she can get past the pre recs, most business classes aren’t that much math.

And marketing at a bank may involve computer modeling, but most mba marketing folks I work with for major consumer products companies or agencies aren’t exactly math whizzes.

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I agree with the library science or information systems major idea. Or, history.

My sibling has a library science major and works for museums as an archivist. Great job for a random fact knowing introvert.