<p>My son got in with a merit scholarship to the university with no mention of a specific school. I've been reading alot about direct admit to certain schools. What exactly does that mean and if you haven't been admitted to a certain school what school are you in?</p>
<p>Many of the students asking about direct admit are referring to the Kelley School. Freshman that have the stats are directly admitted instead of applying in a couple of years. Some students are directly admitted to the COAS or Music school etc. The majority of incoming freshman are considered to be in the "university division." (it might be called something else now, but that's what it was called years ago) Students may remain in the university division until they are ready to declare a major. Typically this is after soph. year I believe. No real need to worry if you son was not a direct admit.</p>
<p>rrah is correct, but it is also possible to be admitted to a particular major, but still be in the "University Division". For example, my son was not a direct admit to the Kelley Business School, but was admitted as a Finance Major. So on his paperwork it said "University Division--Pre-Business--Finance Major". </p>
<p>Once he completed the necessary courses with the required grades, he applied for admittance to the Kelley Business School and was accepted. Now his paperwork says "Kelley Business School--Finance Major".</p>
<p>I know it's a bit confusing--especially when people sometimes talk about being a direct admit to a school when they really just mean they were accepted for their major--and still need to qualify for the school. </p>
<p>This is actually more of a problem at some other universities. For example, at schools such as the University of Michigan or at the University of California at Berkeley or at Emory University, you can't even take a single course from a particular school sometimes until you have reapplied for admittance from your admitted "college" to the new "college" that teaches the courses you need for your "major". So you take two years of liberal arts or pre-science courses (for example) at the "general college", and then apply for admittance to the engineering or music or science or business "college". If spots in your chosen major are limited, you are then competing against other students from the university (and sometimes even transfer students) to try and get into your "major" even after having been at the school for two years. For example, last year at UC Berkeley, it took a 3.62 college GPA from UC Berkeley itself to get into their Haas Business School.</p>
<p>At Indiana University, some schools limit what courses you can take until you have been admitted to their "college", but it is not nearly as strict as at the universities I mentioned above. For example, at the Kelley Business School, they limit who can take the junior and senior level courses, but not the freshman and sophomore courses.</p>
<p>Calcruzer, please enlighten me! im a finance major
i got an email titled "Congratulations from Indiana University"
it said
"Congratulations! International Admissions is happy to inform you that you have been admitted to Indiana University beginning with the fall 2008 semester."</p>
<h2>am i a direct admit or an iu admit?</h2>
<p>apart from that isn't spending the first 2 years studying things unrelated to your major a waste of time?
also after spending my first 2 years at iu and then wanting to transfer into a better university(like Michigan or UNC ). can i? I mean do all public ivies follow this "2 year unrelated studies" system.</p>
<p>i am so lost right now.</p>
<p>I got my general IU acceptance letter first, then 2-3 weeks later a separate letter inviting me to accept a direct admit into the School of Journalism, so it might come in a little bit, but I don't know, maybe the journalism dept. is different from Kelley on how they notify direct admits.
Did your son apply with a specific major or undecided? If he was undecided they obviously wouldn't direct admit into a specific school.</p>
<p>Everyone thanks for your responses. He applied as a Biology major to the school of Arts and Sciences, but no where in his acceptance package does it say anything about that - just admitted to Indiana University. At most colleges if you don't specify otherwise you are considered in the "Arts and Sciences" college. Is that true at Indiana?</p>
<p>Yes, neuromom, you are correct--unless you apply to a specific school, they usually assign you as an undeclared major to the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>Revolcgirl,
My son applied as a finance major--and was hoping for direct admit--but his SAT total (CR+M only) was 1260 at that time--and it takes a 1270 SAT (CR+M) to qualify for direct admit status. (He retook this later and got a 1350 SAT CR+M score, but it was too late to qualify for direct admit status then.)<br>
It sounds like you have already been offered direct admit status;--and this is similar to how Kelley does it. You get the general admittance to IU-B first and then are offered the direct admit to the school of your major (if it comes) a few weeks later. </p>
<p>JKJKJK09,
Based upon what you wrote, you have been admitted to IU-Bloomington and as a finance major, but not as a direct admit (same as my son was).
As far as studying stuff not in your major--this is common at most US (and British) universities--and is one of the main ways in which these schools differ from international schools. Universities in these countries believe that a "liberal arts" education is just as important as a "technical" education--if not more important--and therefore require that you take a mix of both types of courses. At Indiana University at Bloomington, for business majors like yourself, there is a requirement to take at least 62 units of your courses (which is exactly 1/2 of the required 124 to graduate) in such "liberal arts" courses. </p>
<p>Examples of "liberal arts" courses that you will be required to take are the following:
Public Speaking, English Composition, courses in Arts and Humanities, courses in Social Science or History, and courses in Science and Technology that are outside of your business requirements. Here is a website that explains the courses required for business majors:
Kelley</a> School of Business Undergraduate 2006-2008 Online Bulletin: Bachelor of Science in Business</p>
<p>It should be noted that there are some schools in the US called "Liberal Arts Colleges" where there are no technical-type courses offered at all--that is, no business or engineering courses--just mathematics and science courses plus liberal arts courses like English, Music, Theatre, Communications, Psychology, and Sociology. Some of the better known of these are schools like Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, Vassar, Middlebury, Colgate and Smith. </p>
<p>The school you are going to--Indiana University at Bloomington falls into a different category--"National Universities"--which are schools that offer a mix of both liberal arts and technical courses--and which are major research institutions as well. Some of the better known schools that fall into this category are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Duke, Emory, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, John Hopkins, Notre Dame, UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC and even Indiana's rival school--Purdue. </p>
<p>Indiana's research budget in the year 2006 from outside sources was $421 million. This is not counting the close to $300 million spent on regular faculty research efforts and teaching budgets. So there's a lot of research work going on by the faculty when they aren't teaching--and they usually try to get their students involved in this research after the students get the necessary training.</p>
<p>Also, just so we're clear--the research budget doesn't include money allocated to putting up new facilities and buildings or doing maintenance on existing ones--which is about another $100 million.</p>
<p>It also doesn't include financial aid for students--which was around $400 million last year at IU-Bloomington (although--to be fair--most of this is for tuition that ends up being the money that is used to pay the faculty to teach and do research).</p>