eligiblility to apply to the Kelley School in the spring 2014

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<p>As the admission to Kelley requirements stand now, your son needs only to take G202 next Fall to get into Kelley if he applies during the coming fall. For some reason, his adviser totally ignores this fact and instead recommends he take A202 and L201 next Fall semester? I don’t get it. Also don’t get why he would take E201 and Finite at IU Northwest when he can take them at Ivy Tech Gary at less than half the cost and not risk having the letter grade affect his Kelley admissions chances (not to mention that he doesn’t even need finite yet to apply to Kelley). Weird, too, that the adviser says to take A202 before taking A201. A202 is difficult enough without having first learned the basic concepts and terminology of financial accounting and also competing for a solid B or higher with students who have survived A201 and who, moreover, 87% of which are already in Kelley while your son is, theoretically, trying to take the least risky path into Kelley. Similarly, only about half of the L201 students get a solid B or higher.</p>

<p>I still recommend your son next Fall take G202 and C204-- fairly easy Icore pre requisites. Then take whatever of those easy A 1-1.5 credit new Kelley courses your son needs next Fall and Spring to be qualified for Icore, and then some easy electives to get to at least 12 credits to make his Fall courseload full-time. Do E201 equivalent at Ivy Tech Gary this summer and A201 online at some community college (tons of them in Illinois in the Chicago area that will be transferable to IUB). You don’t need anymore risk than that. </p>

<p>This forum has lots of examples of smart kids who took too many difficult Icore prerequisites while trying to get into Kelley but got too many sub solid B grades. One kid a few years ago had a 35 ACT score (top one percent in the country), but took at IUB, in one year, K201, A100, finite, calculus, microecon, macroecon, Math M212, a fourth-semester level foreign language class in the Spring, and nine credit hours of other courses during the two semesters. He didn’t get in.
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