At direct admit today and tomorrow. Today was extremely well done. I’m being honest. If your kid gets in…go!
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Why? Can you elaborate? We are here too but missed tonight’s event due to travel. Will be at everything tomorrow and spend Sunday too hanging with my current sophomore 
Timing of petitions would be great! My son was well above the GPA but 1350 SAT. Hoping we hear positive results soon. He’s scheduled a Red Carpet Day for April.
Same here. My son exceeded the GPA, 1350 SAT. Submitted petition mid September and still waiting.
My impressions from DA day(s):
Friday night was a little chaotic and we didn’t find it very useful. We got there, checked in, got a little swag and information. Then we walked around Hodge Hall and talked to a couple of representatives (they had folks from the different departments in Kelley) and some of the organizations. I would have really liked some of the business fraternities to have booths so we could talk to them but they didn’t. We did get to tour some of the JLLC dorms and cafeteria. Pretty basic dorms but it was still good to have the opportunity. Overall I’d give Fri night a C+.
Saturday was much better. We got to the auditorium early (8:35), got some coffee and took our seats in the auditorium. They had a 3 piece Jazz ensemble playing and it was a nice touch to break the awkward silence while we waited. The Dean spoke- gave some nice history of IU/Kelley. 3 senior students spoke- each gave a brief synopsis of their education and experience at Kelley. All had done amazing things from great experiences studying abroad to internships and, best of all, they all had jobs waiting on them. A couple of faculty spoke as did the mental health department - all had interesting points. There was a Q&A with a couple of juniors and then one with a couple of recent graduates that currently work for EY (EY was a sponsor for the event- not sure if that’s why)
During the break they put up a rolling list of all the C-suite executives that are Kelley alumni and it ran the entire break and I don’t think it repeated itself.
At the conclusion of the presentation they had campus tours or the opportunity to experience a classroom environment at Hodge. My son decided on the tour and it was a good overview of the campus and the tour guide answered questions along the way which was also good. I’d give Saturday a solid A.
Attendance was HIGH. Over 900 families. Evidently this is a significant increase from prior DA days. Not sure exactly what that means yield wise for Kelley. I do know I really enjoyed Saturday and feel good about it if it becomes my son’s choice.
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Good review, and yes Friday night was somewhat chaotic (we were there too), but I think you guys may have missed what we considered the most valuable part of the Friday program for us. In the career center there were tables set up with faculty representing all the majors. We were able to speak with several professors and they each generously gave us a lot of time and wanted to know more about our son and what he was interested in, and they gave us a few recommendations of classes to take and timing. My son is undecided as to major, and meeting and speaking with faculty in accounting and finance was extremely helpful for him. Talking with the students was also very helpful, but for a kid vacillating a bit on his major, we loved the ability to meet with professors. Very strong event overall.
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Jesse2021, When will the next “batch” of petition decisions be released? If a student meets the DA admission criteria, but had to petition due to the technicality of having 2 transcripts, is it still a guarantee admission or will (s)he be on a priority waitlist due to a high number of auto admit students? Thanks so much for offering to ask these questions on our behalf. Congrats on your daughter’s admission!
I think you definitely missed some of Friday night’s highlights. My daughter and my wife were both sold by the end of Friday. As another reply mentioned, there were amazing one on one conversations in the back lower level area with faculty and staff from academic departments as well as other key components of the Kelley education. We were amazed how friendly and personable everybody was. We left feeling like the entire place will truly care about our kid. So impressed. Of course, Saturday was a great event as well but didn’t have the same 1:1 conversations that happened Friday night. However, my daughter enjoyed the operations class she attended and my wife and I did have a nice 10 minute chat with the dean as he walked around the lobby of the school. He was also so awesome and personable. I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but the communities of Bloomington, IU, and Kelly were so great. If anyone has any questions, I’m happy to answer them.
The more outlines provided on the experience of DA day the better off others will be next year. It’s ok if people have different experiences doesn’t mean they missed anything.
Right now most people’s questions are probably when will I hear on petition and how much GSA/SSA will I receive.
Should be a big week, as I understand it IU overall was up 23% in total apps and Kelley up at least 20-25% by itself. I wish everyone luck, the process is almost over.
Can you please let me know what does the process is almost over means? Does it mean Kelly almost reached their capacity?
Still haven’t heard back on my petition? Im guessing this a bad thing, but don’t quite understand why they wouldn’t send out for sure denials early so they don’t still have the school on their list and can look other places.
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I agree. It is extremely frustrating that Kelley has dragged so many kids along while they figure out what they are doing. They have to know the kids they are denying and the fact they couldn’t cut them loose long ago so the student can move on to other schools and visits is disappointing and frustrating
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Kelley has been transparent about the timeline for petition notification, many schools don’t notify of acceptances until March/early April so there’s nothing out of the norm there.
Students should absolutely be considering alternative options if they haven’t heard from Kelley yet…some will still be accepted, some won’t. All should have a Plan B, and C.
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I think they need to some type of status tracker instead of just sitting on application. Every application would be process in stages and that is what they have to indicate tracker. It is not hard to implement that for big universities but I guess they don’t understand how parents and kids feel not getting answer.
They’ve been sitting on the petition for 34 days roughly. Kelley asked submit by 2/1. Whether someone submitted in Nov or Dec does not require Kelley to act on it. My kid is auto-admit and I’m real sure Kelley isn’t going to shed a tear if we don’t attend. Just as they aren’t going to worry about whether anyone else might not by the process of waiting. Very few of us are really all that special in the scheme of all this.
And yet they want to admit everyone and have to not over or under subscribe so it’s a darn stressful process for AOs also.
Kelley has been really clear it will answer by 4/15 and to submit by 2/1.
Fair, IMO, to critique Kelley for using the term “rolling” without defining what they meant by rolling and for indicating 65% petition acceptance before removing that stat.
We are 40 days roughly to 4/15, 11 days to the end of GSA/SSA. And 75 days or so to submit a deposit. The process is almost over for better or worse.
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Does anyone know what the attrition rate is for direct admit Kelley students after freshmen year? What percentage of 1st year Kelley students don’t make it and have to leave? Any insight would be helpful.
Hi jefrobertson - you seem to know a lot about Kelley - my daughter was admitted in early February and we went to DAD this past weekend. The entire Auditorium was filled with students and families. I am sure the other DAD was just as crowded. I am a litttle concerned that with all these students that the weeding out of kids in the first year may be intense. It is a great school but as a father I am a little concerned. Do you know what the attrition rate is for direct admit Kelley students after freshmen year? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Indiana makes a wealth of information public, if you know where to look for it. I googled “Indiana University retention rate” and found an iuia.iu.edu website referring retention. Some of the charts appear to require an IU staff login, but at the bottom I was able to click on a public tableau chart.
I sorted for retained at IU, Bloomington, full – time, business undergraduate. For this cohort, it appears that the retention rate from freshman fall to sophomore fall is pretty consistently somewhere around 95%. The four year graduation rate is 86%, and the five-year graduation rate is 91%.
When I sorted for “university division pre-business” (also Bloomington, full-time) the retention rate (from freshman fall to sophomore fall) drops to about 86%. The four-year graduation rate drops to 63%, and the 5 year graduation rate is 72%.
Based on the numbers for the direct admit (business undergraduate as freshmen), it does not appear to me that there is any weeding out of those students from continuing at Indiana and graduating on time.
Wow thank you for this information - it was extremely helpful and comforting. Appreciate it.
Schools make money by retaining students in today’s world. And all schools are a business now.
Staying is what they care about the most when they admit someone - what is the statistical likelihood they succeed and stay 4 years paying tuition and for at least one year or more housing.
Weed out is an antiquated concept. They will make things easier not harder to keep you there. Weed out in today’s world is a class or classes that show you probably won’t succeed in the major because of aptitude not we are trying to make things hard. Transfers are a tuition/housing hole that is difficult to fill at any University.
Kelley succeeds by kids graduating in 4 years and getting jobs. That’s what they care about. And that’s what largely happens.
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