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[quote=Anonymous]Undergraduate law?  Business best in the nation?  Very good but try to convince people who think that would be a school like Wharton.  McIntire also has restricted enrollment to about 4% of the undergraduate enrollment.

UVA is too far out of line with top schools in the percentage of students doing STEM degrees.  Unless STEM is a fad, I'd like to see that go up.  CMU is at a relative extreme with about 58% STEM compared to 27% at UVA (including engineering), but Michigan is 40%, Berkeley 36%, Harvard 46%, Princeton 47%, Duke 48%, Amherst (with no engineering) 35%.

Perhaps the biggest gap is non-engineering STEM at UVA.  Only 15% at UVA outside of engineering are in STM.  Harvard is 42%, Stanford is 33%, Duke is 32%, etc.

Stanford has a higher percentage in computer science than UVA has in CS, Physics, Chemistry, Math/Statistics, and Biology/Life Sciences combined.  Compared to UVA, Harvard has over 2X the percentage in CS, 7X in Math/Statistics, over 3X in Physical Sciences, and 2X in Biological/Life sciences.

UVA should target raising undergraduate STEM enrollment by 10 percentage points or more in my view.

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