Test scores?
Housing is guaranteed for three years for most students. Junior year must be spent off campus. All nursing students and “selected others” are offered four years.
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Accepted. 35ACT, 4.0 uw, 4.97 weighted. 12 APs, 3 season varsity athlete with leadership.
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How do I convince my daughter to consider IU (she is a business major but did not get into kelly)? She’s in but waffling on even visiting… current state of affairs:
Admit:
Penn State (Berks) 2+2 program (she’s not doing this)
Indiana University (under some consideration)
UC Santa Cruz (likely where she’ll end up)
University of Oregon (will visit)
University of Colorado Boulder (will visit)
University of Denver (will visit)
University of Hawaii, Manoa (will visit while on spring break but not happening from my standpoint)
University of Montana, Missoula (super safety, zero desire given other options)
It’s a beautiful campus in a great college town.
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Does she want to stay in California? I think that’s the threshold question. UC Santa Cruz is great, but it is very California in vibe. Not a lot of cross-pollination going on there.
i was deferred ed 1 and just got waitlisted. i got upset and declined the waitlist immediately, not wanting to wait around for bc anymore, but now i instantly regret it. would it be absurd to email/call someone in admissions and see if i could reverse that and actually accept my waitlist spot??
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So, as others have said, IU is a beautiful campus. For my money, it’s one of the best college town/college campus environments. Bloomington is definitely small town Indiana, but it’s still a decent-sized town with Indy only about an hour away (and the airport more like 45 min away)
According to my son, it’s still possible to get in to Kelley as a sophomore. Even without Kelley there are some very highly regarded programs, including the school of public policy (which is kind of business adjacent in terms of the skills developed).
I definitely think it’s worth a visit. There are a ton of kids from the east and west coast, in addition to the midwestern kids.
Depending on what she’s in to, there’s a lot of options on campus: Greek life, D1 sports, a top ranked music school with associated performances, many national tours stop in Bloomington, vibrant intramurals, etc.
Yes, KSB is a great school, too, but CSOM is considered more prestigious, especially in finance.
And it is reflected in the higher average starting salary of CSOM graduates ($89,000 vs. $74,000 for KSB). It is probably due to a higher percentage of CSOM kids getting Wall Street and management consulting jobs.
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This is just not true. KSB is more highly regarded than BC’s business school…at 60% of the price
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Rejected - 3.8 UW, 3.9 W
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BC & CSOM are way more highly regarded…… Indiana is hovering around 80% acceptance rate and seen as way less prestigious business school. Kelley may be slightly more selective at ~40%. Avg SAT and ACT at BC are much higher, and better salary and placement. The only pro over BC is the sticker price
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Please move on from debating IU Kelley and BC.
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It could also be due to most BC grads getting jobs in the uber expensive Northeast versus the Midwest.
EDIT: Just read the warning. Sorry.
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Son waitlisted. HC Engineering.
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Congrats to your son! 3 years housing is the norm, but ~10% are offered 4 years. My class of 2025 daughter got the 4 years and it was especially nice as Junior year many students go abroad for a semester and this simplified the housing situation for her.
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Does anyone know when the 2028 Gabelli Scholar finalists will be notified of the committee’s decision? Or if the decisions have already been made?
Parents are all over the place with weighted averages. Most high schools add 10 or 15% to AP and Honors courses so the max weighted GPA would be 4.4 or 4.6 and that is only if every course taken was AP or Honors. What system did you use to get a 4.97? Colleges obviously do their own conversion/weighting.
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I do think it’s hilarious that HS weight GPAs, then schools go through and deconstruct and recalculate.
What a funny system we’ve set up for ourselves.
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A full point is added for AP or Honors. But it’s a 4.0 unweighted GPA.