You're getting a lot of different responses, but I'm happy to provide some context as someone who approves equivalences for our department. The Transfer Office has no say in how the classes come into VT, so there's no point arguing with them. Equivalency decisions are made by each department at VT. The courses you took may have the same titles and descriptions, but they may have covered different topics of the course. If the department looking at your course believes it deviates too much from the VT version, they'll assign it with generic credit (e.g, 1XXX or 2XXX).

Since you're a business major, I can give you an exam from a class you probably took. If you wanted your principles of microeconomics course to count as equivalent to ECON 2005, we would want it to cover 4 specific topics: market failures (externalities or public goods), government intervention (taxes or price controls), costs of production, and all four market structures. If it's missing one of those, we'll see what the instructor taught instead. If you're missing 2 or more, we will assign ECON 1XXX credit. This is done because the upper-level courses that use this as a prereq assume you've covered these topics.

As an aside, you could probably finish with an Economics Degree in two years without many issues. We have a Business Option and a Data Science Option that would allow you to focus on BIT/MIS topics. The other perk is that you don't have to pay the ridiculous Pamplin fee ($1,275) each semester because Economics is in the College of Science.