Not buying it…UVa Econ majors get an undeserved bad rap. The OP and many others have implied, and often stated outright, that the Economics Department is the major of McIntire rejects. What does that say to the dozens of Economics majors who never applied to McIntire? When I hire an Economics major from UVa, I don’t ask them if they chose that major because they were rejected from McIntire. It makes absolutely no difference as long as they performed well. So, on behalf of all Economics majors, please think twice before making these types of statements.