Glad to read the positive. A lot of the concerns on portal ID and transcripts I’m sure have to do with some of the direct admit programs and again the priors from IU are totally different this year. So reading this forum from 2023 or reddits are going to not be particularly helpful on timing. You should not be concerned with submitting the review request as if it being submitted Nov 14 versus Nov 20 will make a material difference in admissions. This is exactly a reason IU is moving to this process.
Once they can upload into their own software the general stats on review request applications they have an idea of what GPA/Test/ECs etc… they are looking for in applications probable to be admitted. Plus the number of auto-direct admits received and probable yield from that. The scoring of review requests for admissions is one part of the process - reviewing their class and yield probabilities and offering admissions is a totally different concept.
Kelley has 5 admissions staff for maybe 5,000 requests. 15 a day every single day to review until Jan 15 if all Kelley review requests come in from EA batch which isn’t true but you get an idea. I know they are starting to look at review requests but this is very different than admissions and is why some are seeing portal change to their applications from “pre-business.” Kelley has uploaded the review request into the software.
The Kelley review request admit rate is around 25%. I think overall in 2022 it was 39% with 100% admit rate for auto-admits factored into that 39%. The vast majority of applications to Kelley come from this early action batch or at least the vast majority they will admit. IU and Kelley want to align on admission results. Most likely very highly skewed toward women admits for a period to try and impact the gender gap at Kelley. If you have applied to schools like Kelley or Luddy etc… it will most likely be a later university admit than earlier even though your application might be scored and reviewed already.
The maybe good news is when Hutton, SSA, Ace etc… all come out in the winter you will not have been waiting since September to fill those out or be invited as in prior years.