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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Different point of view to consider....

Map out a potential 4 yr plan for two programs.

An Economics degree at Harvard will be a different experience than a degree from a Business school program (at any university). Business schools will require pre-professional courses in Accounting, Finance, Operations, Bus Law, Marketing etc and that will include case studies and group project work. A liberal arts economics degree will focus more on topics, theories, applications and can be supplemented with quantitative analyses in econometrics etc. are will likely have more room (freed by not taking business core) for studying other liberal arts, math, or science courses.

Both are useful degrees (even if the intended career is business) but functionally they present themselves differently in the "process" of getting to the final degree.

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If the intended career is business, is it better to just go to UVA that actually has a business program? For example, if Wall Street isn't the goal, will an economics degree be as useful as a business degree?[/quote]

The economics degree may or may not be as useful, but the Harvard name on the resume is definitely going to be more useful in getting interviews and jobs at high-paying companies, whether at Wall Street or outside. [/quote]

Students who were admissible to Harvard but turned down due to lack of space will have the same opportunities in life as those who were admitted.

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No, they won't, and to say so is a feel-good lie.

This is not comparing UVA to Vanderbilt or even Duke. This is comparing UVA to a school that is widely considered the most prestigious university in the world.

Look at the number of presidents and Supreme Court justices with degrees from Harvard, whether undergrad, graduate or professional. Compare that with UVA. [/quote]

Not a good example. POTUS is hired by an HR team (we, the people) that's significantly less well-informed about what it takes to be successful in the job than any professional HR team. And SCOTUS is selected by folks who are trying to please that same HR team.

Regardless, I'm not saying there aren't a ridiculous number of Harvard grads who are highly qualified for the top jobs in the country. Harvard gets first pick of the smartest, most ambitious high school students in the country, so of course they're going to have more than their fair share of high achievers. But the levels of attainment of their grads is due to who those individuals already were when they arrived in Cambridge, not to any superiority of the education they received while there to that received by those in Charlottesville.[/quote]

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