My son got admitted into "Explorery " IU last friday and it did not mention anything with Kelley or business/pre-business.The email came from IU.
He requested a direct admission review and never received a response from Kelley after that.He was waiting listed also.
We are very confused and does it mean he still on Kelley’s waiting list?
DS is patiently waiting a response on the petition as many are here too. Fortunately he has several DA offers on the table- both in-state and OOS, one from Broad, which he is leaning toward due to it being in-state tuition (among many other factors) that one seems to be the forerunner at this time. Unfortunately the longer IU takes to release decisions, the less appealing this option becomes which is maybe a good thing. As a parent, I am just ready for a decision, this process has been painful.
I heard from Kelley’s AO middle of last week that decision will come out in 7-10 days so I am expecting by end of the week or max by early next week. Good luck!
For the wait that seems long, you have to understand from Kelley’s perspective it’s competitors just now released decisions: Ivies, UCs, NYU, Ross, Wisky etc… Gies is the one competitor earlier.
For the primarily Big10 country students who applied to Fisher, Farmer, UMD, Pitt, Broad - Kelley doesn’t see those as true competition and does not care they admitted someone way earlier.
Doesn’t mean those Big10 schools are bad - but the fact they released way earlier is a different game and not one Kelley is playing. They know those who get into Kelley will want to attend and those who find the wait excruciating - probably aren’t attending anyway or getting approved on petition. College is a business it’s not personal. Just numbers.
Kelley has already admitted way more students then they need - the question is what % of those will actually attend to allow petition spots. Petitions have become for the most part a wait list.
Is there anyway to let them know we will attend if the petition is accepted? I think they have some standards of knowing who may attend and who may not, but if there is a way to let them know the demonstrated interest it will be helpful. We tried to send an email but sounded like they were not that interested. We do not know if kelley will see us as one of the applicant who may not attend due to our stats 4.18 GPA and 1530 SAT test but was wondering how can we let them know that we will commit?
Totally makes sense. My only regret is we didn’t submit the petition earlier. My son got in to IU sometime in November (early December?)—he meets the direct admit stats, but attended 2 HS so couldn’t be direct admitted.
We put off submitting the petition till February, partly not to overwhelm Admissions, and partly just because a lot going on at the end of the year
Clearly should have submitted the petition in December.
Turns out he got into his #1 choice, so I don’t think IU is in the cards (sad for me, Bloomington is a special place). But it would have been a lot better to have gotten that Kelley DA and had that sitting in his pocket the last 3 months. Might have affected his outlook.
Even if you had petitioned earlier, you might still be waiting like us. My daughter with a 3.8 GPA and 32 ACT submitted her petition at the end of Nov. b/c she had two hs transcripts and we still haven’t heard anything.
The only thing that would help would be to encourage everyone auto-DAd who is not going to attend to formally turn it down. And why would someone because who knows what happens with their school they want to go to.
Kelley is too big for demonstrated interest, calling them and telling them how much you like it. And it would have made zero difference submitting in November unless you were a very high stat female versus accepting you now.
It’s frustrating I’m sure, it’s not easy to not know, but in the Kelley world and the world of high ranked schools - disappointment season just began and now it’s figuring out where everyone who got denied last week is going to attend. That will drive petition spots.
I would have your student send a note to their AO here: Meet Your Admission Counselor: Contact Us: Office of Admissions: Indiana University Bloomington
A quick email…any updates and then close saying they would attend if admitted.
I believe you Jeffro but US News undergrad business ranking has Illinois gies at equal ranking as Wisconsin and Ohio State Fisher. Are you sure Kelley competes with Gies?
Kelley definitely competes with Gies. Border state with a smaller business school locked into Chicago. US News is such a bad methodology for undergrad specialty schools within Universities. Illinois in-state students will and should take a really strong look at Gies if they are admitted. Great school. Half of that Gies entering class are all students Kelley wants and probably all were admitted auto DA to Kelley.
This is for Kelley specifically - already admitted to the University. Emailing the general University AO - whatever. But Kelley is really clear not to contact them. You are the expert so I’m just making that clear before someone shoots off an email.
I sent Kelley and update and they were more than happy to receive it
Thanks. Would you recommend taking chances at going Kelley standard admit vs direct admit from another big ten school like UMD, Ohio State, Penn state etc?
Did they send you any update on petition application when sending them email about your interest?
Who did you send it to?
@Speer we learned Penn State Smeal seems to be DA…as in students are accepted to Smeal.
BUT in their junior year, all Smeal students must apply to their business program (Finance, Accounting, etc).
Still a great option. But that’s quite different from Kelley DA, where students are accepted to their business program.
US news undergrad business rankings are only based on pure assessment surveys, that aren’t anything close to accurate and go off nothing but reputation from those who even do the survey.
Look into the Poets and Quants, not perfect but has actual criteria that evaluates each business school as a whole.
One big reason to move forward with another deposit is for housing. If you can’t put down a housing deposit without the admissions deposit it can be more difficult to secure on campus housing choices depending on the school. For our DS, we were advised by friends to immediately put down a deposit for his top in state choice when the acceptance came. It all feels like such a racket.
I think it depends on what your goal is, if it’s IB, standard admit since trying (and being close to successful) for the IBW will correlate with grades that are good enough to get you into Kelly. The requirement is just Bs and better. Otherwise if that’s a risk I think another option might be better.