UVA-Mcintire

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Anonymous wrote:Aside: UVa should take the next step and make McIntire a direct admission program.

I heard a rumor W&M is considering making Mason direct admit so I imagine UVA will follow if so

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Aside: UVa should take the next step and make McIntire a direct admission program.

I heard a rumor W&M is considering making Mason direct admit so I imagine UVA will follow if so

Highly doubt UVA cares much what W&M does.

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The undergraduate degree in Wharton is a BS in Economics.

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Penn State just went to a direct admit to Smeal. Will see how that goes. The way Penn State is doing it is a direct admit gives you a spot in Smeal but not necessarily the major of you choosing.

Typically, half of the kids who entered Penn State as undecided really wanted Smeal and try to transfer in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Direct admit would be so much better. As it is, you have roughly 2000 kids taking microeconomics freshman year for the chance to apply to 300 McIntire spots and everyone is smart and made the cut-off to get into UVA in the first place.

Would be brutal for a direct admit. If they yield is the same, which I doubt, they would take about 750 kids for 300 spots. I bet over half the spots will be taken by ED applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside: UVa should take the next step and make McIntire a direct admission program.

I heard a rumor W&M is considering making Mason direct admit so I imagine UVA will follow if so

Highly doubt UVA cares much what W&M does.

Plenty of people who apply to both for business. McIntire and WM Mason are both sub 25% acceptance rates currently meaning a lot of people who are very set on studying business may get turned down. UVA isn't going to want to risk losing students to W&M who might want that guarantee.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside: UVa should take the next step and make McIntire a direct admission program.

I heard a rumor W&M is considering making Mason direct admit so I imagine UVA will follow if so

Highly doubt UVA cares much what W&M does.

Plenty of people who apply to both for business. McIntire and WM Mason are both sub 25% acceptance rates currently meaning a lot of people who are very set on studying business may get turned down. UVA isn't going to want to risk losing students to W&M who might want that guarantee.

I thought they were closer to 50%.

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Anonymous wrote:If your daughter or son is at UVA, do they plan to apply to Mcintire? Or would love to hear from someone whose child stayed with economics as a major and what job they have now. Thank you!

Not quite what you are seeking, but my kid was a UVA Econ major and studied under Ken Elzinga who wrote her LOCs to Oxford for grad work in Econ. She’s going to a T3 law school to study law & Econ and perhaps become a professor. She had many friends in McIntire.

Write Dr Elzinga before you go and ask to visit him on campus. He did for my kid. You’ll never meet a kinder man.

I think he taught his final classes this fall! I think taught there for 70 yrs.

That would be difficult since he got his PhD in 1967. I just saw him at church and he said nothing about teaching his last class. But pp
is right - I bet he would meet with the applicant.

My kid was in this class in the Fall. Elzinga is a legend but my kid also liked McKay and made it to office hours for both of them to get some one on one time. I had Elzinga when I was there in the early 90s. He's one of a kind!

https://news.virginia.edu/content/professor-guessed-hed-stay-3-years-was-58-years-ago

When we toured Northwestern, it really struck my student how they did not have an undergraduate school of business -- what they said on the tour was that Kellogg doesn't want them to. They want their undergraduates to learn about the stuff they will be doing business in/with. I like UVA offers a first year experience to try things across disciplines to determine if McIntire is a potential path for them or not.

From what I have heard and seen, there are plenty of non McIntire success stories out there -- also, there is a Comm Minor which has been gaining popularity. Give the opportunity to take McIntire classes but not have to commit to the entire program.



Ok, so just shy of 60 years, not 70.

He tag-team taught micro this fall. It was told to the kids or inferred that the guy teaching with him (McKay) is his replacement.

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All the kids want business these days. The computer science majors of a decade ago are now all applying to business. The engineering majors are trying to combine the degree with business. UVA should make McIntire direct admit so kids can make a good decision about where to go to college. My kid is sitting on a lot of direct admit acceptances and UVA. It is a gamble to accept UVA!! I heard you can’t even have one A- freshman year if you want to get accepted!! Sounds ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside: UVa should take the next step and make McIntire a direct admission program.

I heard a rumor W&M is considering making Mason direct admit so I imagine UVA will follow if so

Highly doubt UVA cares much what W&M does.

Plenty of people who apply to both for business. McIntire and WM Mason are both sub 25% acceptance rates currently meaning a lot of people who are very set on studying business may get turned down. UVA isn't going to want to risk losing students to W&M who might want that guarantee.

I thought they were closer to 50%.

+2 I heard McIntire was 45-50% admit rate. I assume they balance for gender, so harder for boys to get in.

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My DC commented that some friends at UVA who they thought would be aiming for McIntire are trying for the new and growing school of data science instead. Anyone hearing similar?

https://datascience.virginia.edu/

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This is useful - destination report of Econ majors

https://economics.virginia.edu/sites/uva-as-d10-economics/files/2025-09/Final-ECO-2024-Destinations-Report-1.26.29%E2%80%AFPM.pdf

80% employed, 20% in grad school (mostly law)

Of those employed, 22% in consulting and 41.5% in financial services

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the kids want business these days. The computer science majors of a decade ago are now all applying to business. The engineering majors are trying to combine the degree with business. UVA should make McIntire direct admit so kids can make a good decision about where to go to college. My kid is sitting on a lot of direct admit acceptances and UVA. It is a gamble to accept UVA!! I heard you can’t even have one A- freshman year if you want to get accepted!! Sounds ridiculous.

For those who don’t get into McIntire, perhaps consider economics with either the data science or general business minor, both offered at UVA.

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All this makes me realize this is one area where this generation of college kids have it harder. There’s so much pressure to know what you want to do NOW. Didn’t know you wanted to do business as a 17 year old senior? Too bad. No spots for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside: UVa should take the next step and make McIntire a direct admission program.

I heard a rumor W&M is considering making Mason direct admit so I imagine UVA will follow if so

Highly doubt UVA cares much what W&M does.

Plenty of people who apply to both for business. McIntire and WM Mason are both sub 25% acceptance rates currently meaning a lot of people who are very set on studying business may get turned down. UVA isn't going to want to risk losing students to W&M who might want that guarantee.

I thought they were closer to 50%.

I've been going off the Poets and Quants numbers since W&M officially uses that one on it's website - assume UVA's is also correct.

https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/school-profile/university-virginia-mcintire-school-commerce/
https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/school-profile/college-william-mary-raymond-mason-school-business