Does anybody know if the merit scholarship notifications come out in waves? My son is OOS and a DA to Kelley but hasn’t heard anything yet.
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same question here
@jefrobertson any idea if AOs give consideration to MEET Kelly attendees in the petition review process. I doubt they’d even have this visibility let alone be useful.
Anyone receive a decision recently? Applied early October and crickets since. Many at my DDs school haven’t heard yet either so that is keeping her relatively calm. Other schools in our district have received decisions so doesn’t seem to be by region. Jan 15th seems far away!
S25 OOS. Waiting still, applied Oct. I guess it will be between Jan 6th -Jan 15 due to holidays.
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Still waiting. Should be a direct admit to Kelley but nothing so far. My son’s portal said he was missing his official transcript until December 7 (the school resent it 12/6). It was originally sent in mid-October, around the time of his completed application.
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Same situation here. A classmate who had same transcript issue has finally heard. This is beyond weird. Thankfully my child doesn’t really want to attend, this was a back up bc of Kelley’s DA policies and he has been admitted to schools higher on his list but i paid money and just want to see it through.
4.52 WGPA. 32 ACT
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Good question. My daughter did the women’s leadership institute. Would be interested to see if they have knowledge of it. My daughter had to do the petition so included it in that info.
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Its pretty stat focused…
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Thank you @jefrobertson
When they look at transcripts without a weighted GPA, do they re-calculate it? My D25’s transcript didn’t have a weighted GPA, else she’d have easily qualified the Auto DA criteria by a big margin.
Also, would you know how much weightage Kelley AOs give to GPA Vs SAT/ACT score?
They do not recalculate a GPA. They use the highest GPA that’s ON the transcript:
If your student doesn’t have a GPA on their high school transcript that is a 3.8 or higher, the student must submit a review request to be considered for direct admission.
It’s not necessarily an equitable approach, but it’s apparently one that Kelley has deemed the most expeditious given the volume of applications they receive.
When did the classmate hear? And for IU or Kelley?
Thank you. I meant to ask during the petition review process and not the Auto DA.
I’d like to believe they’d evaluate the course rigor and not just the GPA “number.”
Or may be this is wishful thinking. They may still be only looking at the highest “printed” GPA on the transcript.
University Admissions vs Kelley.
UA: Every school reclalcs GPA based on its input formula including students from that high school who enrolled at IU and how they performed at IU. Nobody cares about weighted or number of APs etc. or very few do in reality. All are trying to match you to high school equivalents with software today.
Kelley: Kelley gets the scoring from University Admissions on the entire app then does their own brief read. They don’t weigh anything more or less but they are mostly only evaluating gpa/sat. The Kelley essay isn’t about grammar its a hero story of why you will benefit. They also are evaluating population diversity wanting students from every state and country and in the last few years gender. Where most get lost is its not a sliding scale like I had a 1500 and 3.79. The University will have recalculated that 3.79 with rigor/history etc. All schools including Kelley have a SAT band which shows students are likely to stay and excel but they don’t really care about a 1400 vs a 1590 it is all the same statistical band.
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Makes sense about the band and that they may not care for 1400 vs 1550.
But if they have limited spots to admit against unprecedented volumes, will they not pick a 1550 over 1400? Especially where other factors are similar, which in Kelley’s case are mostly limited to stats.
Do you know how the Kelley petition process considers students who meet the DA requirements but their high school does not print the GPA on the transcript? I know my kid needs to petition, but it’s a bit frustrating that they would be DA if their high school had a different policy about printing GPAs.
Not how it works. They don’t value the 1500 over the 1400. Its for the most part a can you prepare for it test. There’s nearly zero predictive value or benefit in the higher score. People with a high SAT want it to count more. College cares about what the score tells it. The essay for the most part is the tiebreaker.
They consider it a petition and don’t weigh it any more or any less. They draw arbitrary lines. Frustrating yes but it is arbitrary. They understand you may attend elsewhere and its ok.
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Got it, so essays are the tie-breaker? What you’re saying is they don’t really rank/sort by GPA/SAT as long as their academic index is met.
Not what Im saying. Its not a rubric its a score for the category. Academic will get a score taking into account the IU GPA recalc and your SAT/ACT. If you are TO they estimate a test score. They are not looking granularly at the SAT score. They’ll sort by software after the holistic review into deny, approve and wait list (which means approved not yet space). As a random example (out of 5) you may have a 4.5 for academic and a 4 for ECs then an essay of 4.
Most applicants score very similar on the academic and EC place. And thats stats in context - a kid from Carmel will have higher stats or AP often than a kid from Warren Central and the software levels that. Some will get a score enhancement meeting a category of focus like first gen or woman petition.
Essay that speaks to AO that moment is often the “tiebreaker” but at its core its a lottery. Its not one kid had a 1550 and another a 1410 kind of ranking. But its also real hard if you don’t have real good stats overall because your academic might score 3.5 and 10k are ahead.
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