What to do when you want to get into a course without doing a prerequisite

[inc0gnito]

Title says it all. Say for example I want to get into Commerce at Melbourne Uni, but I haven't done the Methods/Specialist which is required for it. What are the possible options ?

[Starlight]

A member on here xdecay did the math units at monash required in first semester and I think managed to do a mid year transfer this year into commerce.

[golden]

If there is a summer course of maths at the Uni you could do that and perhaps use that as a factor to which you get in, but this depends on whether there is the summer option at all. You will probably have to do some searching.

[sluu001]

Enrol in a similar degree at another uni that does not require methods pre-req. Do a vce equivelant maths subject at uni and then transfer to melb. (which is really not necessary unless you are looking at melbournes post-grad/honours programs - all undergrad degrees are pretty much standardised across the board and graduating from melb will not put you at any advantage over other unis - especially if you get poor marks for the course). Also make sure you ask the commerce faculty whether they will accept the subject as a vce equivelant to methods.

Another option is to Enrol in another melb uni course which doesnt require methods as a pre req - do intro to mathematiics (melb uni equivelant to vce methods) then transfer to commerce.

Bear in mind, melb commerce is extremely competitive and any average from a full years worth of study (8 subjects) below 75 wil not get you a place (80 to be safe). Might sound easy for any high shool student - but uni standards are quite a bit tougher than vce/high school subjects.

[slothpomba]

Few options here:

(1) Do Arts (no math needed) at UoM. Do a math subject as your breadth. Transfer into commerce mid-year. Your arts subjects will get credited as breadth so you wouldn't of really wasted any time.

The problem here is if you're really not interested in arts, it'll be a hard slog for you. The good thing is you are at melbourne though.

(2) As per sluu001, do commerce/bussiness/whatever at another uni that doesn't need methods (i doubt there are many courses like this that don't need methods, so, this might be hard).

(3)  I've seen unilearn (http://www.unilearn.net.au/) mentioned on the UoM website. You can do it anytime online. It's fairly expensive. Methods is not an easy course, its definitely not easy to teach yourself online. Even the uni very is fairly condensed down. I know a fair few people failed the Monash one. You're getting people who haven't done math since year 10 and even then it was fairly easy-ish and chucking them into methods.

I'm not sure why you haven't done methods but in a commerce degree, you probably cant escape the math. If it isn't your thing, then, even if you really want commerce, i'm not sure if you'll have a fun time.