Which college I was accepted into..

rrah
Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:13:30 +0000

About 90% of freshman at IU are in the University Division. It means you have been accepted as a student at IU, but not yet eligible to declare a major or officially become part of one of the schools/colleges at Indiana University. A few students are directly admitted to their eventual school or college, but relatively few in the College of Arts and Sciences. The biology dept. is part of the COAS. Sometime during your freshman or sophomore year you will declare your major–biology. You must do this by the semester you have 55 credit hours. If you come in with lots of AP hours it could be as soon as your spring semester freshman year. Some schools, Kelley and Informatics for example, have very clear guidelines about admission requirements to those schools.

Being in University Division in no way limits courses you can take provided you have the prerequisites. It’s the way IU has long chosen to classify freshman or undeclared students. It’s also a way to provide advising aimed at freshman generally rather than more specific major counseling. For further info look at search Bulletins on the IUB website and University Division.