Same
Rejected! Already moved on anyway!
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Same in this house! Kid is moving on to a school that appreciates a 1500+ / 3.85 ← not printed on the transcript 
As the parent, I’m relieved because this makes the decision less complicated. Congrats to anyone who got good news, tho!
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Yep! Kelley is missing out on everyone here! Best of luck to everyone in their future!
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Well, WOW!! Kelley just increased the standard admit requirements to get in At the end of this coming freshman year. It’s been required to have a B in each class freshman year. NOW they just increased it to a B+ in every class for incoming freshman who are going for standard admit from pre-business acceptance 
Here’s the thread with the new info:
I have two Hoosiers set in their majors, we are good. The new information was emailed to families last night who have recently enrolled as pre-business students. It’s really not called transferring in!! Pre-business students follow the same path, take the exact same classes as those directly admitted to Kelley.
This news is causing much frustration as it’s already hard enough to achieve the B’s in every class as a freshman. And they just changed the requirement to B+ after these students just enrolled. Not really fair honestly.
The last time the SAT was higher for direct admit was 2019 when it was 1390. And the gpa was still the same 3.8. So even if it increases, it probably won’t be by much. But this is where the change should happen!!! Not changing the standard admit criteria on students who just enrolled knowing they needed to achieve B’s.
Parents are writing letters to the Dean and President.
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Yep. As I said on the other thread, if I were one of these students I might circle back with one of my previous options, assuming there was a choice with direct admit.
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The lack of ethics by IU and Kelley has sickened thousands of parents. There many threads on private Facebook groups as well as Reddit. Here is what you need to know as a parent of a future pre business student: Kelley has changed the rules bringing the probability of admission to 2% (per parents who ran analysis on public grade distributions) one month after the commitment date when all other options have been declined. It’s repulsive. And there is nothing to stop them from changing the rules again to A or A+ because they made it very clear that they owe pre business students nothing. They are trying to get all pre business students to take a class on other majors at IU. This is a bait and switch beyond anything I have heard of in higher education. Meanwhile Kelley students themselves can get a 2.0 average and can get D- grades while they say the new B+ standard is to maintain academic standards. I don’t know what to say, it’s a staggering betrayal.
I have a question about admission to pre-business. I am working with a student who earned all A’s and one B+ in high school business classes (not college) and graduated with a 3.61 GPA. He applied to IU Kelley pre-business program for the Fall '25 and was denied admission to pre-business so he does not even have an opportunity to earn admission to Kelley. I thought any IU incoming freshman with good grades could choose pre-business. What criteria are they using? It seems unfair to deny students the opportunity to earn admission especially after he passed up admission to business at other colleges to attend IU.
Why can’t he go thru the standard admission in second semester of his first year at IU?
He was denied admission as a pre-business major and was told he can be an economics major instead so he is not allowed to take the required business classes to apply for admission at the end of his first year. I do not understand what criteria there is to be accepted as a pre-business major.
I don’t know either. I don’t understand why he accepted the IU offer if he wanted pre-business and a path to Kelley. Did he talk with admissions to understand the issue before paying a deposit? Has he talked with his advisor?
He found out after paying his deposit that he was denied the pre- business major. It makes no sense because he has a strong HS record of excelling in business classes.
What did the offer he accepted say? Did he accept the offer before the enrollment deadline of May 1? When did the pre-business denial come thru? Said differently, why did he accept the Econ offer if he wanted a path to Kelley? And at the time he didn’t ask admissions nor ask his advisor since enrolling?
Hi there,
The denial was sent on May 14th which was 2 weeks after the deposit deadline. When he applied, he was not informed of Kelley changes and had no reason to expect denial to the pre-business major since he has good grades.
The denial letter simply said you can not be in Kelley so choose something else like economics.
Are you talking about the standard admission changes? Did those also impact who was admitted to pre-business?
Obviously i feel for this kid who accepted the offer for Econ thinking he was assuredly going to be accepted pre-business (which is itself far from assured one would make it to Kelley.)
This illustrates why it makes sense to take the offer where you know you can study what you want. At least that’s what I typically encourage students to do, of course not all students take that advice!
@jefrobertson can you comment on what @klc214 is saying?
Thanks for info- what are the pre-business major criteria? It would have been helpful fo his decision to process his application prior to May 1st.
I don’t know, pre-business isn’t a major. I thought anyone from any IU school/major could go thru the standard admission process for Kelley provided they take the pre-reqs. This student should be asking their advisor these questions. And if that advisor doesn’t know the answers, get a new one. (Seriously)