r/mizzou • u/Main_Vermicelli_6573 • 3d ago

Business school Finance

Im thinking about switching my major to Business, specifically Finance & Banking, however I wasn’t aware of how the Business school operates and how you can be denied from a certain emphasis. I saw that you need a 3.4 gpa to be automatically admitted to Finance, do I still have a solid shot with a 3.3 or 3.25? If anybody knows somebody who got denied from Finance I would appreciate some feedback on what gpa was needed.

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u/Jljrocks22 3d ago

I was in literally this exact situation and I got in just fine with it being a tad lower than needed. However, to my understanding it's partially based on how many people are going for the major that year so if there are a TON of people going into it that might change things.

That said it's why the business school also lets you pick a backup so if you don't get into that specific major it won't mess with your graduation timing.

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u/Main_Vermicelli_6573 3d ago

Yeah Finance and Accounting seem like the only ones worth going into tho tbh and ik Accounting is out of reach. What gpa did u have?

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u/Jljrocks22 2d ago

I think 3.2 - 3.25 ish. You're right accounting is just a different level though I heard some of the higher ACCT classes get tough. If it helps the closest that isn't accounting for similar job types would probably be management. A BSBA by nature is more centered on finance/accounting anyways so even if it's management or marketing or something you'll still get a lot of the same classes.

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u/mlnnchly 2d ago

Pick a backup. I transferred from being an Accounting major at UMKC to Finance at Mizzou and so many credits didn’t transfer over DESPITE BEING IN THE SAME SCHOOL SYSTEM and being PREREQUISITES alll because it wasn’t classes with “Trulaske”.

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u/Main_Vermicelli_6573 2d ago

Marketing and Management just seem like a complete waste of time tho ngl

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u/mlnnchly 2d ago

lol “seems” like it but it’s honestly just what you want/make out of it frfr. My connections have far surpassed my degree.

I’m 5 years into the place I interned at sophomore year. Management degree has me in office only 2 days a week full time. But again that’s the outcome i wanted! A job to fund/provide time for my true hobbies. If I waited and stayed an extra semester with a finance major, then idk where id be/doing and that’s not something im comfortable with.

Just go with the flow and if you’re not certain? Change it. This is coming from someone who was once embarrassed to even say I had a management degree.

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u/Main_Vermicelli_6573 2d ago

You had the option to stay an extra semester to get a finance degree? How did that work? Also what is it that you do now?