How difficult is internal acceptance to UVA - McIntire?
I'm a senior in high school and I was recently accepted to UVA. I want to major in finance, but UVA doesn't offer direct admission to their business school (McIntire). You have to complete two years at UVA, then apply to be admitted to their business school. I'm unsure if it's worth taking the risk of not being able to major in finance and instead have to major in Econ, because I have an acceptance to BCs Caroll school of management. To give you a frame of reference I got a 2170 on the SAT and had somewhere around a 3.85 unweighted gpa. My question is is McIntire really as hard as people say it is? And if so, am I better off (from a recruitment standpoint) majoring in finance at BC or Econ at UVA? Any info or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Also: I'm out of state for UVA, does anyone know the OOS acceptance rate to the McIntire school? I know the overall acceptance rate is about 60%.
Easier than pie. I never understood what that meant until I got into McIntire
Did any of your friends/people you know get rejected and were surprised?
Your OOS status will have no impact on your admission to McIntire.
Worst case scenario, you get Econ as a major, get some accounting coursework, and you've still got a strong application. Highly unlikely you wouldn't get into the comm school with a GPA like your high school one, however.
Thanks for the advice. Do you know how much access I would have to McIntire's recruitment resources as an Econ major?
Firms that come on-campus recruit from every major, it's not just a McIntire specific resource. The only thing is, if you didn't get into McIntire, it was probably because you had a sub-par GPA, so come recruiting season that will set you back against kids in McIntire that probably have better grades (the average for admission is around a 3.6 or higher most years)
Why don't you ask people you know at UVa? People you've met there from high school or during accepted students days? Perhaps even check out WSO's premier feeder forum, College Confidential?
At least the first couple options I suggested would even be good practice for IBD networking.
What BlackScholes said. From what I know courses in Comm school can still be added from outside, assuming that you are given approval by the instructor.
Just take pre-reqs with the absolute easiest lib eds your freshman year (ask an upperclassmen what these are). You should be able to get >3.8 and get in, and if you can't, you're going to have other problems.
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