<p>To all econ majors:</p>
<p>How challenging to you find the econ classes? How difficult is it to get an A?</p>
<p>What are your post-graduation plans? How do econ majors fare when compared to their commerce counterparts during the on campus recruiting? What management consulting firms recruit from the school?</p>
<p>“What management consulting firms recruit from the school?”</p>
<p>all the major investment banks and consulting firms consider UVA as a target school.</p>
<p>Like untitled said, all the big and some small i-banks and consulting firms recruit heavily. Some come for the A&S career fair and all come for the commerce career fair. Everyone is welcome to go to any career fair they want. The University Career Services also has set up a program called on-grounds interviewing where you can upload your resume and potential employers can schedule interviews with you. </p>
<p>As far as the econ program itself, it is one of the larger majors in A&S. They have had a lot of professors go on research leave for next semester and as a result the number of classes offered is smaller than usual and they’ve had to bring in 5 or 6 visiting professors. In the other thread you mentioned taking STAT 212. Whatever you do don’t take it with Pospieszalska. All econ majors even got an email from the dept. head telling us not to take her. In terms of the difficulty of the classes, not everyone gets an A. A lot of classes I’ve been in have had a policy where anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of the people in the class get some form of an A. It’s not like Comm school where no one gets below B. But if you work hard it is not that difficult to get an A.</p>
<p>I’m not an econ major, but I can definitely echo what wahoo2007 said about stat 212. I have her this semester, and it’s really annoying/time-wasting =/</p>
<p>fantastic</p>
<p>The only remaining stat course is taught by Pospieszalska.</p>
<p>hey, i was reading the override thread and I was really interested. I am an oos spring transfer (UVa is one of my choices) but I dont want to go if I cant get any good classes for spring semester. I lan on Hon mulitvariate cal, and linear algebra, but I would also like to take an econ class or two. I need 4 semesters at UVa (would grad in Dec 2007 or may 08 if I get a semester long internship). I really want to get into mathematical microecon or economics statistics (so I can do econometrics and (cross my fingers for the distinguished program) next semester) and either labor, education, chinese, or health econ.
What’s the most confusing is that some classes say ex: 30/25 but there is an online waitlist. Sometimes these classes show up on the search for all classes that are not full, sometimes they dont. I would love if someone could tell me how this all works. I would love to go to UVa (my reservation is that I am neither rich nor too preppy). They seem to have a good overall program but I need to make sure the school I transfer too will allow me to explore my potential, otherwise, why transfer?</p>
<p>Sorry for the long post.</p>
<p>lookin’, First of all when some classes say 30/25 what has happened is the professor restricted the courses to the online waitlist when the course was full 30/30, so from there on out the course is restricted to whenever the professor decides to let people off the waitlist. However you can still drop the course if you’re already enrolled in it. So in the example there are 5 spots in the course from people who’ve dropped, but the professor just hasn’t bothered to fill them from the waitlist yet. </p>
<p>You don’t have to take econometrics before getting into distinguished major. You know you apply for distinguished major in the spring of your 3rd year right? </p>
<p>My roommate last year was a math major and was in Econ 311 (Mathematical Micro) and he dropped it for 301 (regular micro) because he said it really isn’t worth it there are just a bunch of problem sets to do. </p>
<p>From your list of courses you want next semester, China is hard to get into even for people not transferring. I’ve heard good things about Howell (a visiting professor) who is teaching labor and education. I wouldn’t take econ of health if you can avoid it.</p>
<p>question… if you get into the engineering school and study there freshman year, can you still apply for the commerce school? is it harder to get in? are engineering classes harder in terms of getting the grade?</p>
<p>Wahoo2007, thanks for the info. I dont want to take econometrics next semester but I would really love to get into “intro to economic stats” so that I can take econometrics in the fall. I emailed the dept of econ and asked if I could do a distinguished major for next year and then graduate the semester after that… no reply yet. How hard is it to get in the distinguished major? What are the chances of getting into labor or educational econ? Do you think that they will raise the limit of studedents cause I bet there are more than 3-4 students on the wait list? Anyway, I hope to do the DM next year but I will also be applying for an internship with the CIA for spring 2007. I hope to take that semester off for some sort of internship. But if I dont get a paying internship I want to apply for the DM for next year cause its a year long major. I just dont know if I can get in cause I will not have been there a semester when I apply. I will have econ classes (5 upper level) at my current institution and 2 courses at the LSE summer school. (all As)
Thanks for the info since you know this stuff first hand.</p>
<p>To be honest I don’t really know about the difficulty of distinguished major (though I will be applying this spring), just what’s on the website. I suspect with your situation they’d be willing to look at your grades from your current school. If you don’t get an email back just call them up, they’re very helpful. </p>
<p>In terms of getting into the labor or education. I’d say you’d have a better shot at getting into education just because there are more spots and 300-levels are usually less popular. Don’t get worried if you’re not in by the first day of class. Just go and let the teacher know you’re still interested. What usually happens is that even though there are a bunch of people on the waitlist before you most of them will already have decided on other classes and are just too lazy to take their name off the waitlist. So when they get the email offering them a spot they usually decine and you’ll eventually get in.</p>
<p>Remember for the econometrics statistics requirement you can take either stat 212 or econ 371, so that might open up some more possibilities.</p>
<p>lookin’, First of all when some classes say 30/25 what has happened is the professor restricted the courses to the online waitlist when the course was full 30/30, so from there on out the course is restricted to whenever the professor decides to let people off the waitlist. However you can still drop the course if you’re already enrolled in it. So in the example there are 5 spots in the course from people who’ve dropped, but the professor just hasn’t bothered to fill them from the waitlist yet.</p>
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<p>for classes in the category you mentioned earlier, is it impossible for students to be added to the waitlist?</p>
<p>jaek, no its not. In some cases you can add yourself via the electronic waitlist. If the teacher hasn’t set a waitlist up for their class online then you can email them and request that they add you to a waitlist they’re keeping themselves. Though some teachers don’t keep a waitlist.</p>
<p>i have a couple of questions for current or past econ majors at UVA:</p>
<p>what courses have you taken?</p>
<p>which professors were the best?
Which professors gave the easiest exams?</p>