My sons’s changed to the same status as well as soon as he officially clicked button with intent to enroll and paid deposit.
Thank you! I feel relieved to know this information. Appreciate your response so very much!
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@jefrobertson curious what school your kiddo is choosing over Kelley. And what were the deciding factors? Just honesty wondering as my daughter is still deciding between Kelley and another bus. school
UWashington. Instate tuition. 2.5 hours from home by car. Big city. Distance, actual winter, humidity. Tons of love for Kelley and job prospects might be worth the $100k difference in total cost over 4 years if not for other factors. Kelley was only non-west coast application. Rush is also a lot more mellow on the West Coast.
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If Kelley does not consider the multiple transcripts as auto direct admit anymore, I believe there will be very few petitions accepted and many will be put on a wait list. If Kelley decides to not use a wait list - then it’s possible we still have a month to hear on petitions.
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OOS S24 went to 3 high schools but all classes were graded and he had all “A’s”. Maybe he hit the petition window exactly at the right time as he got DA and Hutton. Good luck to yours as the stress is terrible!
@jefrobertson - Do you have any new information regarding timing now that Spring Break is over? Thank you!
I emailed Kelley today. They said due to the volume of review requests and the comprehensive nature of the evaluation process, they will not have all decisions released until April 14th. While some decisions have been released, the large sum of them haven’t.
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I haven’t checked in with my contacts but note they say this every single year and almost always release earlier than the deadline. This year might be different. They would never say we will release earlier until they do or that all decisions have been made. This is their standard answer.
Thanks so much for sharing this update!
I hope decisions will release early April. There isn’t much else we can do at this point other than wait. April 14th will come sooner than we think! It’s only about 3 and a half weeks away. Good luck to everyone 
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Most RD decisions come by end March. We were hoping to decide on the college and commit by first week April. Kelley review request decision is a key factor in our considerations. Thus, hoping to hear on this in March, so that we are in a position to make that decision and then commit on housing and all.
The earlier Kelley releases the more likely it is to be a rejection or a waitlist. Pick your own adventure. Nothing you can do but wait whomever wrote that is right. From DA days Kelley expects to enroll about 1000 of those attendees. Leaves about 700 spots for 10k or more petitions. It’s going to be a very difficult petition. Kelley is not adjusting the portal showing business from pre-business ignorantly. They know people look at it.
Can I ask where this information is coming from? Do you work with Kelley admissions?
He doesn’t work for admissions, as far as I know, but is very well versed on both IU and Kelley admissions. I believe one of his kids is a current Kelley student and he’s been incredibly insightful throughout the process while also serving as a voice of reason for many.
Totally appreciate all the help from everyone on this forum especially @jeffrobertson. I am just wondering if these exact numbers are published anywhere.
Basic Kelley math is this, the only thing not published is the Kelley DA day yield although you can find that from a number of informal sources. Number of apps this year was provided by someone else with certainty:
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IU has a 25% yield overall historically; few colleges above 40% nationally for scale
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Kelley undergrad has 10k spots so each class around 2500 including standard admits; 800 SA on average = 1700 direct frosh spots
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Someone else posted 26k Kelley apps which is on trend
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At 25% yield to get to 1700 enrollees that means deny 19k of the 26k if 40% yield that’s denying 21k. 25% yield is a 27% acceptance rate which is pretty close to where Kelley has been trending (not close to the prior 65% quotes).
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While the Kelley auto admit rate is 100%, the actual yield from this group is pretty low and the main yield indicator is attend DA days. Rather than look to 25% yield from auto admits, Kelley focuses on yield around 60% from DA Attendance. Historically 2k DA day attendees from the auto admit group. That’s 1k-1.1k of the 1700 spots.
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Then Kelley has to determine the expected yield of petitions to accept to get to the 700 available spots without over or under subscribing and figuring out which ones to admit. That’s what they are doing now. Won’t be more than 2800 petitions accepted (25% yield), won’t be fewer than 700 (100% yield). And it’s why they usually use a wait list to hone that in on the last 100 or so spots.
With commitment dates and FAFSA later, it wouldn’t shock me Kelley goes later. But it’s not because they haven’t reviewed the petitions.
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Honest question. If they may potentially deny 19K-21K of 26K, why wouldn’t they send out the denials weeks ago so those kids could have an answer? I get holding the waitlist kids to fill in spots, but with so many denials, what is the benefit of waiting to the very very end of Apr 15 for denials?
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It’s a great question. There are a bunch of minor reasons but the realsie answer is they don’t care about the denials, they are going to be denied. It’s a business not feelings.
They want to accept everyone it’s a really stressful thing for the AOs. They have to disappoint and cannot over or under enroll. That’s where their focus is - who to admit.
No university or sub-college just sends out denials even though all have screening where someone’s app is not moved forward from the initial read. Kelley is no different. It is why the portal is so impactful right now after University admission - if the portal has moved to Business from Pre-Business it means Kelley requested the University in the software to assign the application to Kelley. If it hasn’t it means either Kelley hasn’t decided yet, looked at it or it was denied/WL.
Someone just told me that all decisions came out March 15th? Do you guys know this is true?