My son has been direct admitted to both Kelley and Krannert (studying management information systems). He’s smart but not the most competitive student. He’s worried about picking a program where that’s weeds him out. Any general thoughts on these two programs related to the difficulty of actually staying in? Thanks much.
It is more helpful to others to name the school, rather than the donor’s name attached to the business division that may not be as familiar to others.
Indiana direct admit business majors must maintain a 2.0 college GPA overall and in the business major, so that is no weeding:
Purdue business does not do direct frosh admission, according to the page linked below. Pre-business students must earn at least a 3.0 college GPA (plus whatever requirements there are for the specific subarea) to continue to the upper division.
https://krannert.purdue.edu/undergraduate/admissions/faq.php#
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Direct admits at Kelley should be okay.
Everyone’s terror is Finite Math, which he should try to get through a CC.
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Indiana MATH-M 118 Finite Math is described as “Sets, counting, basic probability, including random variables and expected values. Linear systems, matrices, linear programming, and applications.” Seems like a combination of introductory statistics and a light version of linear algebra, which should not be too difficult.
Yeah. Except it is. It’s THE weedout course at Kelley. It’s got its own legend of fear and loathing. 
All students who can try to take it elsewhere.
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Maybe for those weak at math who are trying to get into the business major through secondary admission (i.e. not direct admit). It does not look like direct admit business majors need to worry unless they get grades worse than C that could pull their GPAs below 2.0.
https://gradedistribution.registrar.indiana.edu/index.php?term[]=4208&term[]=4202&term[]=4198&term[]=4192&dept=MATH&subject=&crse=118&clsnbr=&instrname=&go=i suggests that MATH 118 grades tend to average slightly lower than B- (around 2.6) for students whose overall GPAs are slightly higher than B (around 3.1).
Indiana-Kelley versus Purdue for MIS may depend upon how quant oriented the student is.