<p>Does anyone have an idea of the gpa currently required to get into McIntire?</p>
<p>The average GPA is around a 3.6 (been bumped up this year) and... I'm not sure if OOS makes any difference. Hmm.</p>
<p>Wow! just a 50/50 chance of getting into the business school. Even if I'm accepted to UVA I may have to think about the security of being in the program I want at one of the other universities.</p>
<p>i'm a current 3rd year in comm school, pretty successful academically, going to work on wall st. this summer. i'll write a post about why going to comm school has been the biggest waste of my time when i come back from bahamas next week.</p>
<p>Haha, so I've heard from most comm schoolers. I wouldn't pass up the great career services they have though, and is it true that with a decent amount of work, you won't get below a B?</p>
<p>i think it should be pointed out that once you are a frshman, if you know from the start the bschool is where you want to be, you will start taking the proper prerequisites to better yourself for applying to McIntire. It should also be pointed out that UVa doesnt offer the only 2 yr bschool program. During your sophomore year, and this is what i plan on doing if im at UVa wanting to make the commerce school, you send out transfer apps to other schools that offer 2 year business programs, that way you have some security and more then likely can study what you really want to and in a bschool. There are some great schools that have 2 yr programs liek UVa's that i plan on applying to just as safety. Emory, BYU, UNC-CH, UC Berkeley, Wake Forest, Wisconsin- Madison, and William and Mary to name a few. Assuming you have been taking the proper prerequisites, applying and possibly transfering into a bschool that has a 4 yr program would not be the end of the world either.</p>
<p>That's kind of foolish, amyank. Majoring in business is all about recruiting, and the recruiting for non-business majors at UVA is excellent as well. If you were to be rejected from McIntire during your second year, it would make more sense to stay at UVA and pursue another course of study than to xfer to a lesser university.</p>
<p>While I do agree with cavalier and the others about recruiting, if you want to do accounting like me, Comm School is your only option here at UVa. Just something to keep in mind for those considering it.</p>
<p>Untilted--
Hope you follow up with that post. I am curious as to why you say that. D is a 3rd year also...and she makes comm school sound like a lot of work, but has appreciated the doors it's opened for her. Overall, I think she's been pleased--though I know she was recently pretty frustrated by the conflicts stemming from internship interviews vs. classes. Profs gave very little leeway...loads of work during that period and before spring break. I think she was ready to...get away.</p>
<p>In genereal, I was wondering how helpful UVA is in getting their out-of-state students internships in their home state? </p>
<p>I live in the D/FW metroplex and I'm just curious as to how well connected UVA is to huge cities that are 1,000+ miles away.</p>
<p>Cavalier, last time i checked, Emory, UNC-CH, UC- Berkely, etc., are not exactly "lesser" schools. Highly reputable in fact. I think not carefully planning a seperate course of action is more foolish. I know going to a great business school is what I want to do. If I can't make McIntire, why would i stay and pay 38k a year to obtain credits in a field I do not want to practice. I think you suggesting that I basically abandon what i want to do with my life to study somethign different is pretty foolish. If I were to succeed at say UNC, finish high in my class, there is a 100% chance I will be recruited. I understand how great McIntire is, it will be my first choice, God willing. And honestly, If I were to end up at UVa as an undergrad, I might hang around for four years even if I weren't to make McIntire just because I know the school is awesome. However, to suggest that creating a safety net for oneself is foolish and that they should change their interest in life is obviously biased to you as a UVa student. Also, the schools I mentioned are far from lesser. Your telling me that one shouldn't try to make the 5,7,11,12 ranked bschools?, or even apply as a safety? Your argument is not a good one.</p>
<p>Don't be silly, amyank. If you don't get into McIntire during your second year, you sure as hell won't get into the business schools at Emory, UNC and UCB - and Wake/W&M would be unlikely as well. </p>
<p>You realize that your major doesn't necessarily relate to you future career...right? Especially at good schools, people major in all kinds of things in preparation for a career in business. Pursuing a degree in McIntire at UVA is all about recruiting - overwhelmingly in consulting, investment banking and other areas of the finance industry. But guess what? The elite firms also heavily recruit people from all majors, such as economics, history, electrical engineering and mathematics. Majoring in history, getting a good GPA and presenting yourself well can get you interviews with a number of excellent firms. Few history majors work as professional historians. Is that something that you can grasp?</p>
<p>I was trying to help you out by pointing out that if you didn't get into McIntire, you wouldn't get into a similar school as a transfer and it absolutely would be stupid to go to a lesser school that consulting firms and the financial industry ignore. UVA is a great place to spend four years and it's not tremendously difficult to get a fantastic job as a liberal arts or engineering major. You're in high school and it's clear that you know very little. Don't call me foolish and don't belittle me by telling me that my arguments aren't good when all you have to support your assertions are infantile and incorrect ideas about how college and job recruiting work.</p>
<p>"If you don't get into McIntire during your second year, you sure as hell won't get into the business schools at Emory, UNC and UCB - and Wake/W&M would be unlikely as well."</p>
<p>You can't get into UNCs b-school as a transfer. All business-intended transfer students to UNC are placed into the CAS, and then after all prereqs are complete, the student can then try to transfer into the business school. Acceptance rate into b-school is around 67%, with the average transfer GPA being a 3.5. UNCs supposed to be better than average with financial aid packages for oos transfers, or so I've heard.</p>
<p>UNC</a> Kenan-Flagler Business School : Application Process</p>
<p>what are McIntire's strongest concentrations (ie finance, international, accounting, etc)? or are they all about equal?</p>
<p>Ok, well I read your post cavalier and I do disagree with alot of it, from what I can understand. Put emphasis on understand. Again, very hard to comprehend for me. But aside from your discovery that you are older, (congrats on being birthed ahead of me, wish i could've pushed my reproduction button sooner) that I am a high school student and I guess, subsequently, stupid in your opinion, not much of any of it is absolutely correct in my opinion. McIntire has a 52% acceptance rate for the bschool, far off from Emory's at 86%, UNC at 66%, BYU at 81% and Wake's at 77%. I'm not a mathematical genuis, but I'm sure roughly 25% is a large jump in chance. So to suggest that not making McIntire is an indicator that one will not be accepted anywhere, well, that leaves me at a loss for words. Where you got the notion that I believed the only way to work in a field of business was to study in a bschool is unbeknownst to me. I will say this, and I am surely confident in it, top bschool grads probably end up in better business positions than non grads. It certaintly cannot be a benefit to have a liberal arts degree vs a bschool degree. I am also fairly certain that not only UVa and McIntire grads get recruited for jobs. I am sure that it's a national thing. As well, take one side of an argument. At one point you say that Emory and the likes are lesser schools, yet when it comes to transfering into them, they are to hard to get into suddenly? I guess that would suggest they are at the same level as UVa, no? Otherwise, if they are in fact lesser schools, someone should have no problem being admitted to them. To go back to the original argument, it certaintly cannot hurt to send out transfer apps to other schools. It's fine to pursue an economics degree at UVa if you can't make McIntire. I wouldn't be against that at all, as again I will say it, Virginia is where I would want to attent and remain. Also, I'm sure that person would be recruited very handsomely. My take on it is just that as a sophomore it cannot hurt to apply to other great schools. If business is what someone wants to do, why shouldnt they give themselves every possible opportunity. Personally, I think It'd be better to go straight into a bschool at say UNC or Emory, if McIntire was eliminated as an option. I am a very focused individual and once I set my mind to what I want to do, I usually do not deter from it. So a bschool degree would do me better as I am certain business is what I want to do. I percieve this pathway as the best in obtaining my goals and so it's what i would do. Simple as that. It doesn't mean it's the best, It's just what i would do. Finally, there was no need on your part to turn this into a belittling conversation. We were both just making arguments that we believed to be correct. Me bluntly saying I do not agree with your arguments, calling them foolish, a term you first used, is the same as you making counterpoints, so I was not belittling you. If anything I was belittling your points, which is in the purest form, a debate. Never, not once, did i say you were foolish or stupid. I can appreciate your side of the argument. I simply believe mine to be a little better. That's all. I'm sorry for using "foolish" very loosely in my last post, which is what i'm assuming sparked your words, I was simply trying to make a point.</p>
<p>...and for crs1909, a transfer can attend UNC Kenan Flagler in the beginning of their junior year, just like internal app students would. The transfer students would just have had to complete the proper prerequisites at their previous university. My ideas are based on my assumption that I would fill these types of requirments during my 1st and 2nd year coursework, allowing me to go straigth into UNC or any other 2yr bschool program.</p>
<p>"My ideas are based on my assumption that I would fill these types of requirments during my 1st and 2nd year coursework, allowing me to go straigth into UNC or any other 2yr bschool program."</p>
<p>UNC</a> Kenan-Flagler Business School : Bachelor of Science in Business Administration</p>
<p>May I transfer directly into the undergraduate business program?
No. You must first gain admission to UNC-Chapel Hill and spend at least one semester in the College of Arts & Sciences before you may begin the undergraduate business program. For information on admission to UNC-Chapel Hill, contact Undergraduate Admissions. </p>
<p>amyank489: You HAVE to spend a semester in the CAS if you're a transfer, there's no way around this. You need to quit making assumptions. </p>
<p>Also, you haven't even taken an upper division business class in college and yet you're just assuming that you're going to like it. Maybe you've taken some random Intro to Business-type classes in high school, but guess what, college is a whole new game. If I were you, I'd come into college with more of an open mind. I remember that I absolutely hated History back in high school, but since I've entered college, History has been my favorite subject. In fact, I'm actually considering transfering as a History major. Point is, you never know what you like until you try it.</p>
<p>If you're anything like me, a first-year student here, nothing short of a business education will suffice. I'll admit to being closed-minded, but I see it as a strength: for example, while others dissipate their energies over all their classes, I focus on my pre-McIntire courses. If another interest develops in the next couple years, there's always room for a second major or minor.</p>
<p>If you truly have an interest in business and want to go to McIntire from the get-go, you'll get in. I've heard way to many "I don't know what I want to study, but I hear McIntire grads make a lot of money" comments. Maybe I'm wrong, but I imagine these are the applicants who don't get in.</p>
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<p>Is there any data on the jobs that comm school grads and lets say econ grads get from the recruiting office?</p>
<p>ok, w/e...unc isnt my problem...my point is that its possible to apply to other 2 yr programs and it's pretty smart.</p>