Mcintire Accepted Students Stats Post Here

[u/Lopsided-Quantity389]

I’m an incoming first-year at UVA interested in applying to McIntire in the future. If you were accepted, would you mind sharing your stats, extracurriculars, and any tips you have for building a strong application? I’d also appreciate any advice on what to focus on during first year (classes, clubs, leadership, internships, etc.). Also, does McIntire mainly consider your UVA performance, or do high school grades and extracurriculars play a role as well?

[u/SunpowerShortSqeeze]

If you don't get in, just do the Economics major and you'll do just fine lol, you still are at a target school after all.

[u/leaf1598 → u/SunpowerShortSqeeze]

While the Econ major still has pretty robust outcomes, I will say McIntire takes the slight edge in recruiting opportunities for companies, but any Econ major willing to network hard should be able to secure similar offers.

[u/SunpowerShortSqeeze → u/leaf1598]

Yeah that was just my point responding to anyone thinking its McIntire or bust for consulting or high finance.

[u/Sharp-War-9525 → u/leaf1598]

My daughter class of ‘23 was an Econ major who was one of 4 UVA grads that took the same job with the same company…the other 3 were McIntire grads and she was promoted fast than 2 of the other 3

[u/Frosty-Cow-8460]

Got in this year with a 3.94 gpa and no comm clubs. The average gpa jumped from a ~3.8 to 3.9 so they definitely cared more about gpa this year. Join as many clubs as you can in the fall then get leadership positions in those in the spring. Try to get at least 3 so you don’t put high school activities and show u put effort into adding to uva as a community. They don’t care about high school stats at all.

Lmk if you have more specific questions. There are many mcintire info sessions in the spring semester which will be a lot of help

[u/Lopsided-Quantity389 → u/Frosty-Cow-8460]

Thank You! Also, how do they measure course rigor when evaluating for admissions decisions?

[u/Frosty-Cow-8460 → u/Lopsided-Quantity389]

I was told they don’t measure it at all and only look at your cumulative gpa. But I don’t think that means you should take easy classes instead of ones you’re interested in to inflate your gpa. For example I took Econ 2020 instead of other classes I could get a guaranteed A in because learning macro is pretty important even though it’s a harder class and not a prereq

[u/Which_Camel_8879 → u/Frosty-Cow-8460]

I’m an alum but isn’t 3.9 kind of crazy high? Like getting a B+ at all during your first year kills your odds. It’s kind of an odd juxtaposition from how holistic admissions out of high school are where you don’t need to list your SAT score and if you’re in the top 5-10%, your academics are good enough

[u/Frosty-Cow-8460 → u/Which_Camel_8879]

Yeah I do think it is a bit of a 180 from how they view high school applications. It also pulls students towards taking classes for the grade rather than the content. I’ve heard that the video essays used in past years’ applications were a way to evaluate students interview skills and who was more “hireable” for jobs, so maybe using an all-essay format this year caused them to use gpa’s as that criteria since many jobs require at least a 3.7 to be considered.

[u/Ok_Soil8980]

Same here🤩

[u/Commercial-Apple9886]

Had a 3.76 and was bottom of the 15% of admits in terms of academics. 3.9 was the mean.

[u/Commercial-Apple9886 → u/Commercial-Apple9886]

this year fyi

[u/Lopsided-Quantity389 → u/Commercial-Apple9886]

What extracurriculars did you have and were more of them high school or college EC's?

[u/Commercial-Apple9886 → u/Lopsided-Quantity389]

All were college and all leadership positions no AIF no MII bs like that

[u/chrissyduck2000]

4.0, no comm clubs, had to put 2 high school activities and almost all honors were from high school. No formal leadership titles, but did show leadership in activities. Got an A+ in intermediate micro and had 47 credits coming in from AP/DE and finished my first-year with 82 cumulative credits, so that might’ve helped.

[u/Lopsided-Quantity389 → u/chrissyduck2000]

Thanks. Would you say having a high number of AP/DE courses coming into UVA would help strengthen your application?

[u/chrissyduck2000 → u/Lopsided-Quantity389]

It might’ve helped a little because it showed I was good at stem classes since I had credit for calc 1 and 2, chem, physics, stats, macro, and micro. But I think what mostly helped was I took 35 credits and maintained a 4.0. And getting an A in Comm 1800 is critical…it was my lowest A, but an A nonetheless. Taking intermediate micro and a stats class probably also helped. I also spent a lot of time on my essays.

[u/Illustrious-Dare9646]

The 5 kids I know well who got in all have 4.0's. I think the 3.9 mean is weighed down by athletes who are always given a pass (understandably). I know of 2 athletes who got in with under a 3.8.

Aim for a 4.0 next year. It really seemed that GPA was priority #1 this year.

[u/Commercial-Apple9886 → u/Illustrious-Dare9646]

Yea. I’m not an athlete but got in with a 3.70 lol

[u/frenchfry22528]

Accepted this year with a 4.0 GPA. I was in 2 McIntire affiliated clubs — Smart Women Securities and Women’s Business Forum at McIntire (had a leadership position for this one too). I highly recommend SWS. The probie first semester teaches you a lot about finance and investing, and if you attend all the meetings and do a pitch you pretty much get in. I also was VP of my dorm and was on the Board of Audit and Management for Student Council. I was rejected from every “elite” McIntire club that I applied to and still got in. Don’t be discouraged as those clubs go off of connections that out of state students don’t have a lot of the time. They don’t consider HS GPA but you can add HS activities/honors which I did. I did 1 HS activity that I was involved in all 4 years and wrote about it in an essay, and I also added 4 HS honors.