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[quote=Anonymous][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.

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

[/quote]t's already doing that for minorities.  https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-led-program-seeks-broaden-pool-stem-researchers.  Also, as PP noted, there is a new data science school, as well.  https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-plans-new-school-data-science-120-million-gift-largest-university-history.  I have a kid at UVA and he says STEM is fine.  I just asked him since he's here at home working on his senior project.  He doesn't know what you are talking about re lack of STEM courses.  He's in engineering.  UVA engineers are often hired for managerial positions as opposed to hands-on (Va Tech) because the graduates are usually more well-rounded and have better people skills, not to mention better academic skills.

He agrees with PP that the pandemic will result in more applications to UVA, not less.
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