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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC(AAP kid) just graduated from a large pubic HS in Fairfax county.
95% of DC's friends go to either VT or UVA.

There's a good side on this, but I wanted my kid to get out and explore.
DC agreed, and got lucky with one of the REAs.  
Cost is cheaper than UVA too.

Villanova was on the DC's college list if REAs didn't work out.
DC's inteded major is Business.
If it came down to direct business admit to Villanova vs UVA with similar cost.
DC was leaning toward Villanova mostly because of the major choice. 
[b](UVA business is topnotch, but you have to gamble getting into the program,[/b] and Villanova business is not bad at all)

Even for other majors, I would not think there's a big difference between a T50 Priviate school vs a T30 Public school.
Comes down to persoanl preference, location, cost.
  
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OP, a lot of misinformation in this thread.  You can still get an Economics degree from UVA through CoAS so it's not a gamble.  People are referring to McIntire School of Commerce which you apply to second year and is very selective.  But as I have stated, you can still get an Econ degree without going to McIntire. For instance, my kid is a double major for Chem/Econ, his friend is a double major Econ/Computer Science.  My kid has no desire to attend McIntire but friend does so they will attempt to get into McIntire to receive a Commerce degree but if not both will still graduate with a double major that includes Econ.  As other's have stated, both are excellent schools but what UVA does offer is the chance to apply to McIntyre which is a highly respected program which is an added element to consider...good luck.[/quote]

There's no misinformation.  As you said UVA has Econ in Art & Science and McIntire(Business).
They are two separate things. McIntire gets way more respect from the industry in general.
It's very selective for a reason.

Econ/Comp Sci double major is actually greatly valuable(probably on par or even better than McIntire degree), also trying for McIntire and if fails, going with econ could be an option for UVA as you said, however my kid wanted to get into a respected dedicated business school.

In other words, my kid would choose Villanova Business over UVA Econ
Direct admission to UVA business would be better obviously, but it's a gamble.
So there's no misinformation.

In the end, the kid got into a good business program at a T20 school, so luckily  didn't have to decide between those options.

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It might not be "misinformation" per se, but to suggest that "95 percent" of your son's friends from his FCPS go to UVA or Tech somehow means that everyone from his school goes there is ridiculous.  We all know that's not true.  What it might mean, though, is that your son's friends were the smart kids, and those kids were both smart enough to get into one of these two highly selective and excellent schools and practical enough to realize that going somewhere else out of state or private makes absolutely no sense.  [/quote]

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