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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

My DC and 99% of his friends are applying for business at all colleges this year. His favorite school is definitely UVA, but may end up elsewhere because of the uncertainty around the business school. UVA needs to expand seats in McIntire A LOT if they want to attract the top students. They probably need to go to direct admit like Michigan, Wharton, Dyson, USC, Berkeley, etc. if they want to compete. [/quote]

Just FYI, but the "application" business programs at places like Emory, Wake Forest and some other privates aren't anything like UVA.  You just have to take like 4 required pre-reqs (or test out through AP or taking the college placement test) and maintain like a 3.2 GPA and then they accept everyone.[/quote]

This isn’t true, Wake undergrad business acceptance rate is 50 to 60 percent and two of the prerequisite are weed outs.[/quote]

Sorry…your facts are way off.  Wake is basically 100%…if you don’t get in sophomore year, you will get in as a junior.

Wake admin even tells you this when you go to an admissions session.[/quote]

Unless something recently has changed this is not the case. The accounting prerequisites are tough weed outs and many people don't get in the B school. I don't know what the admissions rate is but it is below 100%. [/quote]

My kid is currently a junior at Wake.  For her class, who applied to the business major last year, the acceptance rate was indeed below 60 percent.   [/quote]

Wake is kind of like rolling admission.  Just because you are not accepted say by Spring of Sophomore year, you can re-apply the following semester.  Like 90% eventually do get accepted. [/quote]

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