<p>Stay at JMU for two years and in March of your second year be sure your transfer application is in as a transfer student to UVa for McIntire. Follow the McIntire prerequisites with your JMU curriculum, too. This way if you get in, great, and if not, then you are still at JMU working your way through their business program. </p>
<p>Next, JMU’s business program is well ranked, 28th overall and 11th among public universities. This is an article for you to read:
[JMU</a> - Undergraduate B-schools ranking](<a href=“http://www.jmu.edu/cob/ranking.shtml]JMU”>http://www.jmu.edu/cob/ranking.shtml)</p>
<p>You may want to be on Wall Street, but to get there you need to do internships and well in your courses. Let me assure you you can get there from wherever you graduate. Do they recruit from UVa, yes, but only the top students. Do some firms/alumni recruit from JMU, yes, but again only the top students. If this is your goal you need to go where YOU are the most successful GPA wise. McIntire is hard and the students in that program are pushed to the limit. Also, your competition for those positions at UVa is high. These are OOS and IS students with high GPA’s and a lot of EC"s. </p>
<p>Don’t underestimate JMU’s business program. As Blue said, go to JMU engage yourself in all it has to offer, send in your transfer app to McIntire, if you still want to, and don’t think twice about it. If you get in you decide if it is for you, if not you are still at a program that is well ranked and can get you where you want to be career wise. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you at JMU!</p>