Same. I was surprised by that. Especially with the accounting shortage they are anticipating in the next 10 years.
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Thatâs interesting. That must be route a lot UVA business grads take. Iâve only met one other graduate from UVA accounting, and heâs not even an accountant anymore. I heard Econ is a very difficult degree to get a job with. Is that still the case or has the market changed? Does it require a graduate degree still? My brother had a difficult time with his Econ/Criminology degree, so ended up getting an MBA from Hopkins, which helped.
Historically Econ grads at UVA have done very wellâŠhere is the most recent destination report (â22)
Thanks, Iâll forward this along to my daughter. She always has the option to transfer if she wants. Gosh, now Iâm having a lot of regrets not making her apply.
I has shocked by that too! UNC is one of them. I would think it would be at almost every school.
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I believe to sit for the CPA exam, you need to go for 5 years and essentially get your Masters in Accountancy.
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Can we be friends? I love your sense of humor! 
Iâm on this accounting server, and it looks like the majority of states allow the students to sit with 4 years. But they need their masters to actually receive their license. The masters doesnât need to be business or accounting related.
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No longer having regrets. It looks like she can apply to McIntire in a couple of years, if she wants. And sheâll still has her accounting major to fall back on if needed.
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Itâs a growing problem with the 5 years required for the CPA exam, which has turned off many college students. The 5th year can be a bunch of junk courses, but it runs up debt for the student.
Yep, I agree. It doesnât look like NASBA is going to change it though. There is one state trying to pass a bill for it, but without the other states following suit, they donât expect it to make an impact. They do foresee the potential offshoring or utilizing AI for the more tedious tasks. But Iâve seen some offshoring for the more complex things, which could be a regulatory nightmare. My prediction is that maybe theyâll lengthen the time for students to pass their exams. There are places that have already extended it from 18 months to 30 months.
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Ahh. Thanks for the clarification.
My daughter got turned down by the Comm School and majored in Econ. She had final interviews with Google, Palantir and Facebook, but ended up landing a job in private equity, where she has worked for 8 years. She loves what she does and is making a good living.
Plus, Gary on âVeepâ was a UVA Econ major!
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I wished I couldâve convinced her out of her decision not to apply, but she was right in that if she got accepted, she wouldâve felt an immense pressure to attend when she really didnât want to go to UVA. There are a couple of kids at her school right now who didnât have the impressive stats and really wanted to go to other schools, but now theyâre feeling the pressure to go to UVA since they got accepted, especially because nobody expected them to get in. For my daughter, Econ or the other liberal arts options and the UVA environment wasnât what she wanted. My pocketbook and I have slowly accepted my daughterâs decision. 
But I think this is good information to know for other parents who might run into the same issue with their kids. That Econ can be a plan B at UVA, if their kids arenât as adamant as mine about wanting to go straight into a good business school. Anyway, Iâm going to drop of this thread. I think I got the answers that I needed.
UNC also meets full need. OOS son was admitted to both last year and UNC would have cost 1/3 of UVA so definition of full need is school specific. Son was admitted to 5 full need school, UVA was by far the most expensive and most difficult to appeal or even speak to (phone and email) someone in the FA aid office.
My daughter got waitlisted. OOS, not SAT but she had a 36 on her ACT. Top 1-2% of her class of 750. Very challenging courseload. Solid extracurriculars (but not spectaculars). Some leadership in clubs and sports with some all-conference/district type awards in sports. She got rejected at UNC and accepted at Michigan. Given what I am seeing for rejections, Iâm thinking acceptance at 1 out of the 3 is probably about right. Maybe a little surprised it wasnât 2 out of the 3, but not shocked.
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Yes - UVA doesnât have a deferral round anymore. Only accepted or waitlisted.
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I wished I couldâve convinced her out of her decision not to apply, but she was right in that if she got accepted, she wouldâve felt an immense pressure to attend when she really didnât want to go to UVA. There are a couple of kids at her school right now who didnât have the impressive stats and really wanted to go to other schools, but now theyâre feeling the pressure to go to UVA since they got accepted, especially because nobody expected them to get in. For my daughter, Econ or the other liberal arts options and the UVA environment wasnât what she wanted. My pocketbook and I have slowly accepted my daughterâs decision. But I think this is good information to know for other parents who might run into the same issue with their kids. That Econ can be a plan B at UVA, if their kids arenât as adamant as mine about wanting to go straight into a good business school. Anyway, Iâm going to drop of this thread. I think I got the answers that I needed.
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This is exactly my sonâs dilemma. He got into direct admit biz programs and also considering UVA with the school of commerce application at the end of year 1 for the class of 2028. Yes, Econ would be a back up plan, but would he be better of stating as a direct biz admit at Kelley, Smith and Pamplin, with Pamplin being in-state?
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So called holistic review is nothing more than a subjective assessment that is prone to AO-dependent favoritism and un-disclosable criteria. Itâs all crap-shoot. Kids from more competitive regions or schools get punished or sacrificed.
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I wish I had the right answer to this. I feel like Iâm learning as I go. But I actually had a co-worker many years ago who told me she had the stats for UVA, but chose VT because of the direct admissions. Being a UMD graduate myself, I didnât understand her dilemma until now. She majored in accounting and is actually a VP at a major financial services organization, so she certainly didnât make a bad choice going to VT. I also met someone who did graduate from UVA with accounting, and he ended up becoming a personal financial planner instead. My daughter is very adamant about wanting a business degree and not a liberal arts one, even if its Econ, so I think she made the right decision for herself. And the schools she did get accepted into arenât bad at all (UIUC, Rutgers, UMD, VT, and weâre waiting on Georgetown, these were the ones with accounting programs). Maybe the decision comes down to that? Will he be okay with an Econ degree or a backup plan? It seems like you can get a job in finance with an Econ degree from UVA according to their survey. But Econ is different from something like Accounting. My brother has an Econ degree, and heâs actually a consultant, but we definitely donât talk the same business language or even remotely quality for the same jobs.
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