UVA OOS vs full-ride?

[Anonymous]

The question boils down to whether potential access to the UVA recruiting advantage is worth >200k.

[Anonymous]

UVA was not always all that it is today. Outside of this region, it’s comparative to any big flagship - UGA, FSU, OSU, PSU. It’s nothing like saying you went to UPenn or Berkeley, UChicago, or WUSL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVA will not feel "East Coast". It will not particularly open up "East Coast" job opportunities. It's reputation might help a little, it's location will not help much. It's too isolated.

What are you talking about? UVA's placement is outstanding up and down the East Coast. From Boston, to NYC, huge to DC, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Every East Coast hub recruits at UVA, especially out of the McIntire school (the undergrad business school, which is Top 5 in the country).

+1. UVA just got my DD into Oxford for a graduate program

No it didn’t. SHE got herself into grad school through hard work.

[Anonymous]

Take the scholarship and do internships and grad school on the east coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA was not always all that it is today. Outside of this region, it’s comparative to any big flagship - UGA, FSU, OSU, PSU. It’s nothing like saying you went to UPenn or Berkeley, UChicago, or WUSL

Way to work WUSL in there—a school that very, very few people have heard of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question boils down to whether potential access to the UVA recruiting advantage is worth >200k.

Sure isn’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UVA will not feel "East Coast". It will not particularly open up "East Coast" job opportunities. It's reputation might help a little, it's location will not help much. It's too isolated.

What are you talking about? UVA's placement is outstanding up and down the East Coast. From Boston, to NYC, huge to DC, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Every East Coast hub recruits at UVA, especially out of the McIntire school (the undergrad business school, which is Top 5 in the country).

I don’t necessarily disagree, but your post reads like a commercial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA will not feel "East Coast". It will not particularly open up "East Coast" job opportunities. It's reputation might help a little, it's location will not help much. It's too isolated.

What are you talking about? UVA's placement is outstanding up and down the East Coast. From Boston, to NYC, huge to DC, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Every East Coast hub recruits at UVA, especially out of the McIntire school (the undergrad business school, which is Top 5 in the country).

+1. UVA just got my DD into Oxford for a graduate program

Scholarship?

[Anonymous]

If the other school is good enough and you are getting a full ride, and you do well there, you will absolutely end up in the same place. That’s a huge savings. It would be a major enforced error to turn it down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the other school is good enough and you are getting a full ride, and you do well there, you will absolutely end up in the same place. That’s a huge savings. It would be a major enforced error to turn it down.

I think UVA compares very favorably to, say, Appalachian State or Towson State or Austin Peay State. But I'd think twice about paying out-of-state tuition to go there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If the other school is good enough and you are getting a full ride, and you do well there, you will absolutely end up in the same place. That’s a huge savings. It would be a major enforced error to turn it down.

I think UVA compares very favorably to, say, Appalachian State or Towson State or Austin Peay State. But I'd think twice about paying out-of-state tuition to go there.

Lol. Okay.

If UVA = App State, what VA school lines up with Chapel Hill in your strange world?

[Anonymous]

A graduate from UO or CU Boulder’s business school with a great GPA, internship experience, and club participation will have no real issue getting into the Portland or Denver office of firms like Deloitte or Accenture or the bigger name banks. My suggestion would be to work at one of those for a few years, and then should be able to get into an east coast MBA program and then work on the East Coast if that’s still of interest via the MBA. That is most logical to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow... terrible advice from people who have no idea about UVA's internships and job placements for Mcintire. Its one of the top 3 undergrad business schools in the US. DD has had amazing opportunities offered to her in NYC, Boston and DC, as have all her peers. 98% placement rate. Recruiters from every bank and consulting company conduct interviews on campus. That being said, getting into McIntire in no sure thing. Have to apply during second year and there is no direct admit for first years, so you will need to consider that risk.

98% placement rate into $60k/yr analyst positions is not worth $200k.
Top 3 undergrad business school is highly questionable. Wharton, MIT, Berkeley, Michigan, NYU, CMU and UNC are ranked higher according to USNews.

However UVA does place throughout the East Coast. But note that only the best and the brightest from UVA will make it into the more prestigious investment banks and consulting based on NYC/Boston.

There's quite a difference in consideration between Univ of Oregon and Univ of Colorado at Boulder. The latter is a very good school and there is no reason to take UVa OOS over Colorda Boulder on a full ride.

I don't know much about Univ of Oregon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the other school is good enough and you are getting a full ride, and you do well there, you will absolutely end up in the same place. That’s a huge savings. It would be a major enforced error to turn it down.

I think UVA compares very favorably to, say, Appalachian State or Towson State or Austin Peay State. But I'd think twice about paying out-of-state tuition to go there.

Lol. Okay.

If UVA = App State, what VA school lines up with Chapel Hill in your strange world?

Norfolk State, or perhaps Mary Baldwin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A graduate from UO or CU Boulder’s business school with a great GPA, internship experience, and club participation will have no real issue getting into the Portland or Denver office of firms like Deloitte or Accenture or the bigger name banks. My suggestion would be to work at one of those for a few years, and then should be able to get into an east coast MBA program and then work on the East Coast if that’s still of interest via the MBA. That is most logical to me.

What's the point of wasting your undergraduate years on a business major if you plan to get an MBA? That's a real philistine move.