<p>How hard is it to transfer to the business school externally. I called the admissions and she said most applicants have between 3.5 and 3.6, and have completed all or most of the pre reqs. Any successful transfers that can help me out</p>
<p>Well that sounds about right, what else do you want to know.</p>
<p>Do you know what other factors they consider important in transferring? I havent taken some of the pre reqs because they are not offered at my school so I dont know what kind of effect that will have on admission...Also, Would you happen to know how well the job placement is vs UNC and Stern. Most likely, I will apply to all 3 and im just wondering which would be better for I Banking recruitment.</p>
<p>I'm not exactly sure about the I Banking recruitment but my gut says that Stern is probably a little better than McIntire while UNC is worse. In terms of prereqs: they're pretty important. Looking at the list available here: <a href="http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/admissions/undergraduate/prerequisites.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/admissions/undergraduate/prerequisites.html</a> everything is pretty standard besides COMM 180. I'm sure missing one of the prereqs would be okay, though you might have to take them in summer school. Besides that the other factors that count towards admissions would be the same as those for applying to transfer anywhere: mainly recommendations and extracurricular activities. Since you'll be a 3rd year transfer, your highschool record will play less of a role. However, the strength of your academic record will receive by far the most consideration.</p>
<p>I thought Virginia required external transfer students to take one semester in the college before getting into McIntire? I'm wrong eh? Stats would be good to know if anyone has gotten in...</p>
<p>"Also, Would you happen to know how well the job placement is vs UNC and Stern. Most likely, I will apply to all 3 and im just wondering which would be better for I Banking recruitment"</p>
<p>The recruitment is better than that of UNC-CH, and approximately on par with Stern, better than Stern in some aspects.</p>
<p>Keep in mind UVa is the most prestigious school out of all three of them, and employers know that.</p>
<p>"Stern is probably a little better than McIntire"</p>
<p>I've never heard Sternies getting hired by Blackstone Group. But Stern definitely has amazing recruitment as well.</p>
<p>Stop lying. Stern > UVa. Look at avg salaries and more ppl goin to Wall St. Just 'cause u get one or two kids out of 300 that go to blackstone doesn't make up for ur bad recruitment to wall st altogether.</p>
<p>futurewhartonman, UVa McIntire does not have bad wall st. recruitment. Percetage of kids in McIntire who want to go into ibanking is smaller than that of Stern. UVa kids aren't workoholics, we like to sit down and enjoy quality beer.</p>
<p>A problem with CC is that too many high school students are giving misinformed information. They need to research more, and think about things from multiple angles.</p>
<p>Stern may have the edge on recruiting for wall street jobs because, uhh, it's located in Manhattan. But since when is that the measure of quality of a business school?</p>
<p>31.5% go to New York City from mcintire and yes you have BETTER SOCIAL life i definitely agree than Stern which I found a bit toolish from my visits. </p>
<p>yes Stern is in Manhattan which help makes it a top b-school. A bit more than half of the UVA class of '05 stays in the South area. Nothing wrong with that if you loove virgnia or something but those are facts.</p>
<p>a problem with CC is too many biased college students always tryin to promote their own college without researching anything. I'm the only one pulling out numbers rite now and yea u can have a link too:
<a href="http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/career_services/Employers/Placement%20report/Reports/Placement_report_2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/career_services/Employers/Placement%20report/Reports/Placement_report_2005.pdf</a></p>
<p>McIntire sucksss stupid ass vocational degrees</p>
<p>"a problem with CC is too many biased college students always tryin to promote their own college without researching anything. I'm the only one pulling out numbers rite now and yea u can have a link too:
<a href="http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/ca...report_2005.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/ca...report_2005.pdf</a> "</p>
<p>That's the placement sheet I found in my comm school's career office. I saw it way before you. Is there anything wrong with the placement?
are goldman sachs and Morgan stanley the only firms to work for? what about Lazard? Houlihan Lokey Howard Zukin? Wachovia Securities? Merrill Lynch? Having 70 people to work in international investment banks and 60 people to work in Big 4 is considered bad?</p>
<p>And you think that justifies your statement of UVA being better than Stern? Yea you saw the link before me but I was the one to post it and show 50+% of kids working in the South does not mean a couple of kids going to good companies makes UVA => Stern.</p>
<p>Stop talking about UVA by itself and go back to the comparison of Stern vs Mc. people go into business to go to the top companies and Mcintire has those opportunities but just not for all its students. Stern on the other hand is much more successful (as cav pointed out partly because of its location) and other factors.</p>
<p>Also you aren't really proving UVA is so great socially by posting all the time on CC. I mean you're not really getting advice like I am since you're already in college. I know for a fact I wouldn't hang around here after next year when I go off to college.</p>
<p>What do you mean, futurewhartonman? There's plenty of downtime in college. 98% of my posts on this site during the year are during the day in between classes when people are asleep or no one is around.</p>
<p>UVA is better socially than the schools you're probably looking at, but you, as a high school student, probably have little grasp of what I'm talking about.</p>
<p>"people go into business to go to the top companies and Mcintire has those opportunities but just not for all its students."</p>
<p>a lot of UVa kids love South, they choose to remain in the South. It's not like they all WANT to go to NYC and the schools sucks, it's just personal preference. UVa attracts southerners.</p>
<p>I also agree with the social life part.</p>
<p>"Stern on the other hand is much more successful (as cav pointed out partly because of its location) and other factors."</p>
<p>save that "much" and replace it with "slightly", then I would agree with you. Also, a lot of the more veteran CC-ers (including me) have had NUMEROUS discussions about recruiting and the BW ranking, you can search the Business Major forum for the old posts. If you go to Business Major forum, where a lot of investment banking-obssessed people hang out, you'll see that UVa is regarded on the same level as Ross, Stern there.</p>
<p>Yeah what kind of stupid assessment is that to make? </p>
<p>NYU is a mostly decentralized social scene- you'll be having to go out into NYC a lot to find any fun. Most of the 'events' at UVA happen on grounds, and there are quite a bit of them.</p>
<p>I visited NYU and yea i mostly agree though you can have fun anywhere and especially in NYC with the right attitude.</p>
<p>untilted u and i still have some disagreements about how good UVA is OUTSIDE of the South but we mostly agree tho so i guess i'm satisfied. I know this is the UVA board so ill probably never get a full agreement and not with you three here all the time lol but thx for the replies.</p>
<p>I'm interning at NYC RIGHT NOW. of course i know you can have fun, but the experience here is different. not much collegiate experience. NYU attracts lots of artsy kids, last I heard.</p>
<p>Futurewhartonman, I just graduated from McIntire and I can tell you with confidence that our recruiting on Grounds blows away Stern. I am currently employed at a boutique investment bank, not because I didn't get offers from the bulge bracket, but because I wanted this type of environment. Anyway, the only schools my firm recruits at are Harvard, Wharton, and UVA. Our office is in Midtown Manhattan, so NYU is about a 5 minute subway ride away. I don't see any of their alums here though. Also, a buddy of mine went to NYU to study marketing and couldn't land a job in New York. He is currently commuting an hour into Jersey. Lastly, I will leave you with this. Four guys from my graduating class are really close friends and decided last year that they were going to live together in NYC. They all ended up getting offers from Lehman Bros. and are working there currently. What are the chances of that happening? Everyone from McIntire who wanted a big NYC job got one, which is something I cannot say for my friends at other presitigious b-schools, including Stern. There is a reason we are ranked #2 overall by BusinessWeek.</p>
<p>How important are completion of prereqs in the admissions process? The only one I need is the foreign language requirement, which I may have to take at the University summer session, as well as COMM 180, of which there is no equivalent course at wm.</p>