I think it was an email! There was additional info and a letter in the IU account / portal - arrived about 2 weeks after acceptance.
Thank you! And what great timing! My son received an email last night with news that he received a Global Engagement scholarship. He is thrilled! Now we wait to hear from Kelley
Delighted to hear about the acceptances. International mum here and waiting to hear back from Kelley on the request review.
Me too! Happy for the IU acceptance and scholarship news, but still anxiously waiting for Kelley. (International, male student, applied TO)
My kid got an email to learn more about Pre-Business. Sender was Kelley, so got excited for a minute.
should add, came today
Same. Got excited and then read pre-business
To those anxiously waiting, I want to share our story. My D23 was in your same shoes. I closely watched the replies in the Petition Tracker 2023 for signs for my child. The waiting was so hard and we prepared our D for rejection, put down housing deposit on the 2nd choice and started to imagine life there. While we waited, we did everything we could to show demonstrated interest. Then on April 23rd, D was taken off the WL and accepted DA. We had one week to seperate our emotions from the decision. It wasn’t easy because the whole family had fallen in love with Choice 2, including roommate match, sweatshirts, and all. Looking back now, choosing IU worked out great. She would have success at either school, but Kelley has been terrific. For those frustrated with not knowing or missing DA Days, none of it will matter in the end as long as you get DA. Soon the wait will be over and you’ll be looking ahead. Best of luck to you all!
It’s not a waitlist!!!
DD also received this email and is very disappointed. Almost reads like a soft rejection of review request, and preparing applicants to guide through the standard admit process.
One of DD’s classmate with a 3.8 UW GPA (with a few IB classes), who went test optional, heard back earlier this week from Kelley. This person wasn’t even aware of the review request process and just submitted it last week of Jan.
DD is still waiting at 3.7 UW GPA (full IB Diploma), 1500 SAT. Submitted her review request mid-Oct. Shown all possible DI to Kelley (I’m aware IUB doesn’t track it; the DI wasn’t to improve the admissions odd, but was genuine interest).
I know Kelley is free to have its own criteria: sure pick a disinterested 3.8 GPA (less rigor) with TO, over 3.7 GPA (max rigor) with high SAT who spent a week at Kelley, but then don’t keep them hanging for months—just reject already.
I’m sorry for the rant, but really frustrated with Kelley.
I hope your daughter still receives Kelley direct admission. If not, i fully agree with your misgivings. Her stats has already got her into many excellent business programs in much better ranked universities… other than Kelley, there are not many highly ranked programs in IU anyway. This whole direct admission process seems flawed. No one is sure 3.8 GPA criteria is weighted or not and does it take into account curriculum rigor. When you want direct admits to meet both GPA and test score requirements, why not have both as required for the review process … esp Test scores provide a better normalized criteria across similar GPA candidates. It is well known that good GPA students when they go TO, in most instances it is due to weak Test scores (many with multiple attempts). Otherwise they will end up loosing many excellent well rounded candidates like your daughter for sure!. Good luck!
I respectfully disagree with your TO opinion… in Canada, our guidance councillors encourage the students to be more active at school and in the community rather than pay/study for standardized test courses … use the time to work a part time job, volunteer, join a club, join a sport. Not all kids go TO because of poor scores, some kids choose not to write the tests because they would just rather use their time and money to become more well-rounded individuals. And when schools accept TO students, they are opening their doors to these students.
As a counterpoint, what makes you think Kids who take SAT/ACT don’t do those activities you have mentioned and just sit day/night preparing for tests. Numerous high test scores have excellent GPAs and a boatload of EC’s. The point i was making is that given the highly competitive nature, if direct admits require both, it is fair to compare similarly in review petition too. Standardized tests give an overall better picture given the huge variability in school grading, course type/riogr and grade inflation. In US, most SAT scorers above 1400 also do a lot of EC’s!
That’s not what I’m saying whatsoever! I’m just saying, it’s not fair to generalize that kids who apply test optional are doing so bc they have low scores. There are many reasons; finances, location of test (or lack of!), guidance from high school, etc . The kids who do the tests and do well deserve many accolades! Test scores are only a small piece of the puzzle and I appreciate the schools that make admission test optional bc clearly they see that the score of a test shouldn’t define a students potential success.
Having said all that, I hear what you’re saying, if Kelley asked for test scores, it makes sense that they consider them important and those who didn’t submit need to wait!
The odds are still in your favor as the petition process favors females which is clear again this year from the posts so far in this thread!
At a 4.5+W GPA, 1500 SAT in a single sitting, good ECs including academic research, club leaderships, my DD shouldn’t need the female card or any other favor to be admitted to a school like Kelley.
Thanks anyway.
One can always argue how unreliable GPAs are with parents helping with assignments and all possible tuition support too. Not even mentioning grade inflations rampant at many schools.
In DDs school getting a B+ in IB Math is an achievement, and getting C is most common.
At this point, we’d be fine to just receive a decision—even if it’s rejection. I find it extremely frustrating that they have given decisions to many who have applied right around the deadline with borderline stats and TO, while keeping early worms waiting.
I think they are more stuck on 3.8 GPA without considering the weightage and give less importance to SAT scores even though require it for direct admission. Probably, your daughter should have been breezed through if they had converted into appropriate GPA weightage as a direct admit by now!. They likely admitted automatically too many already based on stated GPA on application It is going to be very difficult for those who enroll as Prebusiness and try to get into Kelley later given the high number of applicants all around. Most seats would be already taken and the weed off classes are going to be more brutal.
I hear you!
My son is in IB. 94% average for grade 11 and 12. We don’t use GPA but we’ve been told it’s a 4.0 unweighted. Still eagerly waiting for Kelley decision. Staying positive!