<p>I'm a first year who was on the pre-med track but starting next semester I think I want to go work towards the Pre-Commerce track. What is the acceptance rate for the Comm School? What type of GPA would I need to get in? I think I am looking at around 3.5 GPA first semester.</p>
<p>Current Classes
CHEM 141: A
CHEM Lab 142: A
MATH 121: A
PSYCH 101: B
ENWR 110: B</p>
<p>Wow, doing better in chem. and math than the other classes? Why the switch to Commerce school? I also think that I am pre-med. We'll see what the future brings; I'm young in my stay here at UVA (just as you) so far. Your grades, if indeed are realized, look great and I personally think that you can probably do anything you want to do!</p>
<p>How do you know you have these grades?
I think you're doing okay.
Wouldn't it be better to take MATH131/132 series? It is more rigorous and I think Comm School wants to see that. I was placed out because of 5 on CalcBC. I'm going to take MATH325 next semester to show I'm capable to do advanced math, but some friends told me not to. I know the class is hard, but can anyone tell me if it's good for comm school and/or future career in finance or it will just destroy the GPA?</p>
<p>Yea its weird how I'm doing better in chem and math than other classes but I'm just better at that type of stuff. The semester isn't over but thats how things are going right now. The thing is that I don't want to be in school forever so I think the comm school would be better.</p>
<p>Jaw,
I don't want to discourage you from applying to the comm school because, truthfully the comm school can prepare you for almost any type of career. But I think you should come up with a better reason for wanting to apply than not wanting to go to med school (not implying that you don't have one, just saying). There are plenty of opportunities out there for a student who does well majoring in a hard science. </p>
<p>Ihatecr,
I don't think taking MATH325 will help you get into the comm school, and it certainly won't help you while you're at McIntire. It might help you if you end up working in finance - it depends what you end up doing. If you go into Investment Banking (Corporate Finance), or regular corporate finance work (and the vast majority of McIntire finance kids go into one of the fields, especially banking) it won't help you at all. Ditto for most area's of investment management (mutual funds, insurance companies, etc.).</p>
<p>If you decide you want to go into sales/trading at an investment bank it would probably be a good idea to take probability and linear algebra. You're never going to be a "quant" by any stretch of the imagination (unless you decide you want a PhD in Math or Physics) but taking those two classes will probably make you more comfortable with the work going on at most trading/structuring desks (sales too). </p>
<p>I can't tell you how well you're going to do in probability, but it is a class with a very low average grade.</p>
<p>I think in general its good to show rigorous classes when applying to McIntire, but above all else its important to do well in the classes you take. But I don't really have any real insights to the admissions process.</p>
<p>Holla9,</p>
<p>Thanks for the advising. Yeah I signed up for MATH351 Linear Algebra for next semester.</p>
<p>IhateCR, MATH325 isn't really that hard, and it certainly wouldn't be of use to you in the comm school. If you want useful classes take probability and linear algebra, holla hit the nail on the head. Also, I'll be damned if MATH354 with Ershov isn't the hardest freaking class ever (its much easier with abramenko, 3rd years in the class are telling me its harder than most of the 5XX classes they have taken). But it probably wouldn't be very useful to you. LinAl and Probability FTW, then advanced lin al and higher probability if you can handle it and have room, if you want to do the really mathematically intense aspects, stop there if you dont.</p>
<p>My mistake, I thought MATH325 was probability. I got the numbers a little confused, although I guess my advice makes just as much sense. I do agree that taking linear algebra would be a better idea than taking Diff EQ (for you).</p>