<p>How hard is it to get into Comm School?</p>
<p>This has been discussed on previous threads (search is your friend 
). If you’re looking for pure statistics you can find them here: [UVa</a> McIntire School of Commerce: Application Process: UVA Students](<a href=“http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/undergrad/admissions/Pages/uva-application-process.aspx]UVa”>http://www.commerce.virginia.edu/undergrad/admissions/Pages/uva-application-process.aspx)</p>
<p>As you’ll see in 2012 the acceptance rate of UVa students (not students applying directly as transfers) was 61%. This can be a misleading number. This is a very self selecting group of applicants. First, they’ve been accepted to UVa, a screening process to begin with. Next they have spent their first two years (well, three semesters at the point of application) working towards a minimum of 54 required credit hours of prerequisites. Along this point students that started at the university thinking pre-comm will have changed their focus of interest, not done as well as expected in pre-reqs and moved towards majors where their strengths lie, etc. By the time the students get to the point of applying they know what previously successful applicants have looked like and if they have a decent shot. You can safely assume that the 61% accepted is out of a very qualified group of candidates.</p>
<p>I will also add that, if accepted to McIntire, be prepared to work VERY hard (especially 3rd year).</p>
<p>To add to what blueiguana said, the acceptance rate can definitely be misleading. While the pre-reqs aren’t “weeder” classes like you think of for tracks like pre-med, the population that applies to Comm during spring of second year is self-selecting. There are plenty of people that consider themselves “pre-Comm” during first year that don’t have the grades to be a competitive applicant by the time applications are available.</p>
<p>That being said, if you have around a 3.5+ with good grades in your pre-reqs and interesting ECs (not necessarily Comm organizations) you have a good shot.</p>
<p>40% of the UVA students who apply to the Comm school are not accepted. I’d say that qualifies as extremely tough.</p>
<p>Along the same line as points made on this thread about self-selection, I’d be curious to know how many students at UVa who identify themselves as “pre-med” entering college actually wind up applying to med school?</p>