<p>Hello all,
I am a Kelly DA and have a few questions, if you wouldn’t mind taking the time to answer.
<p>Sorry-can’t help you with #1 because this changes yearly, especially this year. DD received more $ than DS. DS had better scores and grades than DD, but he applied a few years later. </p>
<p>Orientation is mandatory, and you cannot enroll in courses until you attend orientation. Course enrollment is part of orientation. In the semesters after that you will be given a date to enroll based upon your completed credit hours. </p>
<p>At orientation you will meet with an assigned adviser that will help you determine your courses. As a direct admit to Kelley I think you will have a meeting at orientation. I know Hutton Honors students have a meeting during orientation. </p>
<p>Prior to orientation you should familiarize yourself with the academic bulletin for Kelley and the General Education requirements of IU also known as the Common Ground. There are resources available online. These requirements may change prior to your matriculation, but you can expect they will be very close, especially the Common Ground. Your first year you’re likely to take more general ed courses than business courses. </p>
<p><a href=“http://gened.iub.edu/requirements/genedrequire.html[/url]”>http://gened.iub.edu/requirements/genedrequire.html</a></p>
<p>[Degree</a> Requirements: Undergraduate Program : Kelley School of Business: Indiana University](<a href=“Undergraduate | Bachelor's Degree in Business | Indiana Kelley”>Undergraduate | Bachelor's Degree in Business | Indiana Kelley)</p>
<p>It is important to understand that no one will be holding your hand in college to make sure you are taking the right courses. Advisers will advise you, but ultimately the responsibility for course selection is up to you. </p>
<p>I do think IU has a fairly new rule that one must meet with an adviser in later semesters prior to registering for classes. DS missed his adviser appointment (he is technically a junior) and had to scramble to be released in the registration system in order to get the courses he wanted/needed. There was also a resource on OneStart to track your progress towards graduation. I know very little about this though.</p>
<p>I believe that most SSA awards from Hutton were $1K - $2K/yr for IS students for previous two-three years. Exceptional students might get $4K. Some colleges might also tag on another $1K. I am sure that IU is analyzing the criteria of the automatic scholarship against students’ actual performance once enrolled. They may decide that the criteria had to be changed. I think that the Hutton award may be increased to compensate for the reduced IU achievement award this year. So, applicants with high stats may get $6K achievement + $6K from Hutton. That is close to the best one could get from previous years before jumping to the full ride category which is less predictable.</p>
<p>What follows is our experience with Hutton over the past 4 years. The award amounts have not changed significantly, but the number of students receiving awards has declined. </p>
<p>Hutton decreased the number of awards given over the past two-three years. DD enrolled in 2009 and received $1000 from Hutton. Many Hutton students that year received some money based upon what we were told at orientation and based upon her friends on a Hutton Honors floor. </p>
<p>DS enrolled in 2012. His stats were slightly higher than DD’s. He received nothing from Hutton. At orientation that year, the people from Hutton stated that fewer students received scholarships that year. I don’t recall the exact %age, but I think it was in the 5-10% range. (I’m sure if one wanted to look at my ancient posts, the specific figure is probably there.) There were a lot of “unhappy” people that year in regards to Hutton scholarships. Very few of the Hutton Honors floor students received scholarships. DS did get a small direct admit scholarship from his school. He was enrolled in a different school than DD at admission. </p>
<p>This trend was also very obvious at the high school Senior awards night. Scholarship awards from both local high schools are published in the local paper and the awards night booklet. In 2009 most of the local kids admitted to Hutton received some scholarship money. In 2012 and 2013 the number of awards from Hutton decreased dramatically. Very few received Hutton awards. </p>
<p>I don’t think we can yet predict how Hutton will react to the elimination of the automatic scholarships and the decrease in the dollar amount for IS students. Like all departments, they have a finite amount of money.</p>
<p>rrah,</p>
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<p>That is a good observation. I hope the financial aid office knows what they are doing. Otherwise, IU will lose quite a few excellent students.</p>