How McIntire Will View Spring 2012 Co-Op

Colleges & Universities University of Virginia
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Next year I will be applying for the Commerce School at UVa. By the end of the Fall 2011 semester, I will have 73 credits, and McIntire recommends to have at least 54 by the time you enroll in the Commerce School. Since I will have this surplus of credits, I am considering finding a Co-Op during the Spring semester of 2012 in order to earn some money to help pay for tuition and to gain some real world work experience in Finance and/or accounting. What are your thoughts on how the admissions committee at McIntire will view taking a semester off of classes in order to do a Co-Op.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your input</p>

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<p>Go for it! Won’t hurt, especially if you’ve received your associates and made sure you’ve met all the requirements for McIntire.</p>

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<p>There are several issues to consider:</p>

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<li>Have you met all of the Comm School pre-requisites</li>
<li>If you take a semester off are you still considered a full time student-you are not taking classes so you need to see if this is an issue with your status, does it become an issue with financial aid too. </li>
<li>Do you meet the coops criteria? Some require that you are at a certain stage (completed three years, enrolled in the Comm (business program)already-not just applying to it, as well as others that are usually explained in detail on their application information page,)</li>
<li>UVa housing-if you are not a full time student and leave for non-academics do you lose your housing rights. Off-campus most leases keep you on for the duration of the time you signed for which is an academic year or an actual year. </li>
<li>You have to have so many credits in The College (A&S) to graduate. Look at your Academic Requirement page in SIS and scroll down to see what else you need. This is different than area requirements-these are total credits-this also does not include Comm school credits. They break it down for you in an easy format to tell how many you need. </li>
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<p>There are many, many students that fit your same situation. They are double majoring or finding other classes to minor in at this point. Hope this helps you to make sure all of your t’s are crossed i’s are dotted. If you find all these things to consider works out and UVa is good with it then go for it.</p>

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<p>Just to clarify, what do you mean by, "especially if you’ve received your associates " ?
Thanks</p>

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<p>I believe they (Sephyre) are a transfer student and believe you are as well, hence why they referred to having your associates degree. </p>

<p>Sephyre, please correct me if I am assuming incorrectly. : )</p>

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<p>Nope, you are perfectly correct :)</p>