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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was not really ready during the college search process ... wants to transfer to a “better” school ... finance and accounting double major.[/quote]

I'm a business professor, and my perennial advice is that business can be a bad unfocused undergrad major.

I took my first accounting and finance courses in my M.B.A. program, and had no idea they were academic areas.  [b]How the hell does a freshman want to major in these fields without taking a single course? [/b][i][u] Why does this student want a "better" school?  What does "better" even mean?

My charitable interpretation is that your kid made a bad decision and chose a school with poor opportunities.  Now she wants to get her shit together with an employable major.[/quote]

What an odd thing to say.  Kids can take economics in high school as well as they can take an intro to engineering class or a physiology class.  No 18 year old really knows what it's like to be an investment banker or engineer or doctor. [/quote]

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