Tips for ADMS students

Are you studying Administrative Studies at York?
Do you have questions about what to take?
Then You need to read this!!!

I am studying Finance at York and going to Fourth year. Our majors are very different from other majors at York. If you are doing Finance, Accounting, Management, Market or any other streams, they are even more different and restricted.

My tips for you:
1) You need to make yourself a plan of what to take in each semester.
-You need 120 credits and 5.5 major GPA to graduate.
-If you are doing 90 credits, you only need 5.0 major GPA.
-If you don't make a plan, you will easily get lost and don't know what to take.
-If by the time you finish 120 credits and don't have 5.5 GPA, the faculty will ask you to take extra credits.
 (MBA and Graduate school require 120 credits)

My experience (only includes ADMS courses):
2009-2010: 1000 (do mostly general educational courses at first year)
2010-2011: 2200, 2500, 2320, 2510, 2610, 2400, 3330, 1010 and 3530
2011-2012: 4540, 3531, 3300, 4900, 3541, 4502, 2610, 2600, 3660 and 4501
2012-2013: and so on.

2. Get all the general education courses out off the way.
-They are easy, but really time consuming.
-Those course are very interesting, but they will not be counted in your major GPA.
-ECON 1000&1010 are also counted as outside major, you don't have to spend too much time on them.
-Once the semester starts, ADMS courses will take most of your time.

3. Keep the elective courses for the rainy day.
-Some people may have low GPA specially for Accounting and Finance students.
-You need to take elective courses in order to boost up your GPA.
-You also can take some languages or musics courses in order to cultivate your personality.
-If you want to go on exchange, you need some elective courses too. (its hard to find schools that provide similar business courses as York)


So, Welcome to York and Good luck.
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