Transfer from W&M to UVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone successfully transferred from W&M to UVA in second year? DC interested in UVA’s undergrad business school.
If yes, what were their stats? High school and First year College?
Thanks

Getting into UVAs undergraduate business school is really hard even if you were at UVA your freshman year as it's competitive admissions for all students so you're asking a more complex question than just transferring from W&M to UVA.

Does anyone have an experience where the kid transferred from W&M to McIntire?

That is going to be so incredibly rare, if it’s ever happened, that you are unlikely to find a DCUM poster who happens to have experience with it.

[Anonymous]

True. No harm in trying

[Anonymous]

The best approach would be a face-to-face talk with McIntire admissions/administration. You don’t want UVA, you explicitly want McIntire. If that’s not possible, you’re not interested. You need to make a good case for the transfer, and it can’t be the prestige and the outcomes. Everyone knows that, but it’s too raw. After all, UVA is a university first, not a money printing machine.

Instead, make the case that McIntire offers something you have committed yourself to (demonstrate your interest through things you’ve actually done) that W&M doesn’t offer. Basically, you need to show that you’re both qualified for McIntire and that the transfer is merited on academic grounds.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. Very helpful l!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The best approach would be a face-to-face talk with McIntire admissions/administration. You don’t want UVA, you explicitly want McIntire. If that’s not possible, you’re not interested. You need to make a good case for the transfer, and it can’t be the prestige and the outcomes. Everyone knows that, but it’s too raw. After all, UVA is a university first, not a money printing machine.

Instead, make the case that McIntire offers something you have committed yourself to (demonstrate your interest through things you’ve actually done) that W&M doesn’t offer. Basically, you need to show that you’re both qualified for McIntire and that the transfer is merited on academic grounds.

Which is actually kind of hard to do because W&M has an excellent business school too. So is there a niche aspect of business that your DC is interested in that W&M doesn't have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The best approach would be a face-to-face talk with McIntire admissions/administration. You don’t want UVA, you explicitly want McIntire. If that’s not possible, you’re not interested. You need to make a good case for the transfer, and it can’t be the prestige and the outcomes. Everyone knows that, but it’s too raw. After all, UVA is a university first, not a money printing machine.

Instead, make the case that McIntire offers something you have committed yourself to (demonstrate your interest through things you’ve actually done) that W&M doesn’t offer. Basically, you need to show that you’re both qualified for McIntire and that the transfer is merited on academic grounds.

Which is actually kind of hard to do because W&M has an excellent business school too. So is there a niche aspect of business that your DC is interested in that W&M doesn't have?

Various ways to do it. You want to study with a particular professor (and mean it). You want to take advantage of one of their superb study abroad programs. You want to be a finance god, and they have one of the best undergraduate programs (they do).