Regarding status and future for direct admit program, I doubt it would be discontinued, simply because that would put the OOS applicant pool at risk for the school-too many OOS applicants would pass on Kelley without assurance of direct admit. After our first Kelley admissions visit junior year, all in our family were in agreement, most of all my student, that the only way to Kelley was direct admit (and we agreed on this for any OOS school, and our flagship for that matter). No way no how would we have risked going to IU as OOS and taking the standard admit route/risk, no matter how much our student loved the school. Too $$$$.Fast forward to Direct Admit Day in Feb. '16, and our student saw soooooo many fellow OOS students from our community and neighboring suburbs. Kelley admissions does a fantastic job, and at worst, leaves lots of very well-qualified applicants with really tough choices to make. Nice problem to have!