Question about McIntire

<p>I had a question to everyone who is currently attending the school of commerce. I plan on majoring in Computer Engineering, and so once you apply to McIntire and get accepted, do you drop your current major and transfer into McIntire or do you do both at the same time?</p>

<p>You can only be in one school. You can only enter the Comm School while doing Pre-Comm courses in the College. A Comm School major becomes your major. The College has major declaration until the end of the second year when acceptance to the Comm School can be known while E-School major declaration is the end of first year. You can take classes in the Comm School, but there is no way you can do a degree in both the E-School and the Comm School.</p>

<p>UVAMalex09 - I too am interested in going to UVa and transfering into McIntire. </p>

<p>So the first two years of college, would I basically be taking the pre requisite classes for McIntire? I won't have a major until end of 2nd year?</p>

<p>Basically, yeah. You officially have to declare major by the end of your second year.</p>

<p>Hmmm, that sounds kinda risky to me. If I don't get into McIntire, then wouldn't I have to stay a year more and major in something else?</p>

<p>Admission into McIntire is not guaranteed even if you take all the precomm courses and got a 3.7+ gpa is?</p>

<p>EDIT: Do you think that it would be possible to do following comp. eng curriculum while doing the pre reqs for McIntire?</p>

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<p>If I got into McIntire, I will stop doing the CE courses.</p>

<p>And if I don't get into McIntire, at least continue with my CE stuff because that seems less riskier to me.</p>

<p>The thing is that you can't do both Pre-Comm courses and E-school courses because your Pre-Comm prerequistes include College area requirements. You can't do both. It's nearly impossible to carry both courseloads since there is zero overlap. </p>

<p>Getting 3.7+ gives you a really good chance since people get accepted with 3.4. It's not that daunting of a task to get accepted into Comm School. Chances are that you may not like taking the Pre-Comm courses your first year and transfer to the E-School your second year. Engineering students get a "free" fifth year to graduate unlike the rest of the school.</p>

<p>Thanks for the help UVAMalex09. I have just one more question. I read online that UVa won't have ED anymore, so does that mean that even I send my app in September, I will get notification in March and that it's non-binding?</p>

<p>Yeah, you would get a non-binding acceptance to UVA.</p>

<p>Now when UVa compares me to other applicants during the admissions process, will they compare me to other CAS applicants or pre-comm applicants?</p>

<p>UVAMalex, what do people who don't get accepted to McIntire major in? This is one of the difficulities in applying to UVa. All if not most of the other top 10 business schools allow immediate entrance into business.</p>

<p>BTW thanks for all of the insight</p>

<p>vistany -- they major in whatever they want. a lot of people in the comm school pair that with a major from the college of arts and sciences. You can get a number of the classes done for some majors if you work diligently in choosing your courses your first and second years while also getting the comm prereqs out. That way you have time to do comm school and a second major if you want to. </p>

<p>If you apply for comm and dont get in, then you can just continue in whatever your other major was -- often times people will jump to econ since the major is relatively straightforward and some of the courses cross with comm. But basically you can do any major you want in two years once you have your area requirements, language requirements, and basic major requirements finished.</p>

<p>So I'd say just go in taking classes in a major you enjoy, finish your requirements for the college and comm school, and then if comm school doesn't pan out, you can just focus on that other major.</p>

<p>ILstudent: if you are applying as a first year then you applying to the CLAS (College of Arts and Sciences). Then during your second year you would apply to McIntire and your record at UVA would be evaluated to see if you would be accepted to McIntire. A number of students come in first year thinking they will be precomm, but then change their minds when they run into another major they enjoy -- so the school doesn't even look at whether you will be applying to the commschool or not until 2nd year. </p>

<p>Applying for first year admission to the CLAS will not be affected by you wanting to be pre-comm or not.</p>

<p>Thanks k_jo!</p>

<p>This is something I just thought of off. Lets say I am interested in pursuing 3 majors (Math, Economics, and Finance). Would you consider this to be over-kill? </p>

<p>It seems a lot of the classes would overlap. I was thinking about putting Economics as my intended concentration on the application and then sign up for a math concentration once I get there and then apply for McIntire 2nd year.</p>

<p>You can not triple-major.</p>

<p>Oh okay, what about Economics and Finance?</p>

<p>Oh BTW, I was referring to taking Economics my first two years in college and then dropping it if I get into finance, better safe than sorry.</p>

<p>Since the Pre-comm requirements have to be done in the college, I should have time to the pre requisites and econ right?</p>

<p>Why does it matter? Major in what you like and do well. Don't try to impress people.</p>

<p>All I am asking is if it is possible to do economics for two years and then do finance as the classes overlap and if it's just few more credits per semester I need to do both majors, then it's worth it to me.</p>

<p>Or to follow up on what ILstudent is saying, how does a student create a back up plan if they don't get into the Comm school? The first thing that comes to mind is having some transfer apps ready to another business school just in case.</p>

<p>It's not about impressing others, I'm sort of hoping there is a job at the end of the college process.</p>

<p>ILstudent, you can take whatever you want for two years. You don't have to have anyone's permission to take a lot of courses in any department. If you were to enter McIntire as a finance major, you would only need an additional seven economics courses to complete a second major in economics. With good planning, that's not a challenging task.</p>

<p>vistany, why do you say that? Someone who doesn't get into the business school has plenty of options at UVA, such as majoring in areas like economics or math. In many cases, those people are just as competitive for banking and consulting jobs as McIntire people. In fact, many of the people I know who are interning this summer at top financial firms and consultancies have majors like foreign affairs, physics, etc. You're a bit of a naif if you think that you need to major in business to get a good job, or that top employers even put emphasis on recruiting business majors.</p>

<p>"All I am asking is if it is possible to do economics for two years and then do finance as the classes overlap and if it's just few more credits per semester I need to do both majors, then it's worth it to me."</p>

<p>I'm doing double majors: Economics and Commerce (with concentration in Finance). I took a lot of econ classes my first two years, so I only have to take three more economics classes while enrolling in McIntire. </p>

<p>If you want to double major in comm and econ or math, take as many econ or math classes as you can the first two years. Once you enter comm school, life gets busy and econ/math classes become pain in the ass.</p>

<p>Cavalier302, stop surfing internet while at work. ;)</p>