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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your kid is going to UVA you really need to be ok from the start with a economics major vs. McIntire.  Mctire admit rate is now around 40% and there is a lot of behind the scenes stuff that determines that 40%--it's not just top grades.  There are athletes that get in with lower grades, racial and gender balancing, etc. Then they say that business clubs don't matter but they clearly do and admissions to the clubs are all just a massive "who you know" and in many cases have a 2-3% acceptance rate.

Econ at UVA has very good recruitment to Wall Street but you have to be ok with studying econ for 4 years.  The major has entirely different classes than McIntire and there isn't anything like marketing. You're studying......economics. Look at the courses for the econ major and see if they're things your kid would be interested in taking.  [/quote]

OP here. This is exactly what he didn’t like about UVA. It just seems like it’s become a brutal rat race for Commerce. [/quote]
Data Science is another great option at UVA.[/quote]

But Data Science is just like commerce: requires an application at the end of first year (the only entry point) and has a low internal acceptance rate.  We toured last year and they said it was 30-40%.

My child is a first year and is taking the pre-recs for Commerce and Data Science and is hoping for one.

It's a lot to keep all these balls in the air, get good grades in all, etc in freshman year.  My kid took 18 hours fall and spring to get it all doen plus the other gen eds and some STEM courses in case neither Comm or Data Science work out. They are working really hard and it's made freshman year a complete grind. [/quote]

UVA offers a data science minor, too. [/quote]

That is open to all? [/quote]

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