hey, can i ask why economics and ibp didn’t get counted? i’m going to study business at uts and i was wondering if you have any advice?
Economics at UTS works a bit differently to how it does at UNSW, from my understanding UNSW has a microeconomics/macroeconomics split while UTS has Economics For Business 1 (core) and Economics For Business 2 (eco major or elective) which both cover a bit of micro and macro. That makes transferring kind of awkward as neither subject would map directly to a single UNSW subject.
I think it's the same for accounting which mixes financial and managerial accounting across two subjects rather than splitting them (when I did these subjects I think Sydney Uni at least split them), but (unlike economics) every student would have done both accounting subjects in their first year which would simplify transferring to another uni that had split the content differently.
As for IBP, IBP is a bit of an oddball subject. It covers a bit of business law, a bit of general business stuff from a lot of other subjects, group work and uni prep stuff (for example referencing and report writing) etc. It probably doesn't have a direct equivalent at UNSW, there might be a subject with similar intentions however.
As for general advice, to be brutally honest, transferring to a more prestigious uni isn't going to be a magic bullet to get a good job or set yourself up for future success. There will be students in your UTS cohort who are on 4.0 GPAs, people who are running/involved in student societies, people that are doing traineeships or working on startups etc. There might even be people ticking all of those boxes, and there will be amazing people like that at UNSW and Sydney Uni too.
Try to be one of those people rather than someone who is worried if their maginal GPA will let them transfer to UNSW. If you're a high achiever (effort helps here, not just natural intelligence), getting that transfer will be easy. If you can't transfer, then at least you'll have good extracurriculars or experience.
