<p>I'm not sure if I'm good enough, but let's hope so. I'm from Minnesota, and am a white male.</p>
<p>GPA UW: 3.000 (bad 9th grade and beginning of 11th) (hope to get it to 3.1)
GPA Weighted: 3.07 (hopefully 3.2?)
Projected ACT: 28-32
Good EC's (clubs, theater, athletics, peer tutor, etc)</p>
<p>Classes Junior Year:
Honors Algebra II
AP English Lit
AP Psychology
Spanish III
AP US History
AP Chemistry
Anatomy</p>
<p>Senior Year:
Honors Pre-Calc
AP English comp
AP Euro
AP Spanish IV
Honors Govt
AP Econ
Honors Physics
Health (required)</p>
<p>I think you have a good chance, if your ACT is in the upper part of that range I'd say your good. You have challenging coursework and decent test scores, IU doesn't really put that much emphasis on EC's or anything. Good luck!</p>
<p>The key, as I've said over and over again, is to be in the top 50% of your college class, and have taken at least 3 tough (AP, IB or honors) year-long courses.</p>
<p>In addition you should have a SAT CR+M score over 1150 (or ACT of 27 or more), and over 1200 for the business school.</p>
<p>Winston, C.--the school accepted about 65% of applicants last year (probably around 60% this year due to the greater number of applications). This is a far lower percentage than schools like Illinois (70%) or Michigan State (85%) or Oregon (90%), and closer to the percentages at places like Michigan and Penn State. Also, note the trend--IU_B admitted 80% of applicants in 2006, 70% in 2007, and 65% in 2008, and (like I said) probably only 60% for 2009. This is the largest drop in percentage numbers of any school in the country. Naturally, this also means that IU-B's average SAT and ACT scores have been going up the past few years, while nationally the numbers have been going down. </p>
<p>In addition, getting into certain schools once you are at Indiana can be fairly difficult. It is estimated that if you are not a direct admit, then the percentage of those applying for the business program who are admitted is around 20% to 30% (and that's obviously after eliminating the 35% of those who couldn't get into IU-B at all).</p>
<p>Other programs with significant lower percentage of admits (relative to applications) are the music school, the journalism program, the fine arts program, the nursing program, the law program, the computer science program, and the optometry school. Other programs that are said to be tough (but for which there are no statistics available) are the communications and telecommunications majors. I know they do certain things in these schools to limit enrollment for specific fields--for example, in the telecommunications program, if you want to continue on in certain areas (like computer game design) last year, you needed the professor's permission--and last year if you didn't have an "A" in the introductory course, the professor would not allow you into the second-level course in this area--period. Pretty tough way to find out how competitive that particular major is if you ask me.</p>
<p>When I say you need to be in the top 50% of your high school graduating class, I'm referring to applicants from Indiana. For out-of-state applicants (OOS), you need to be in the top 35%-40% of your graduating class to be accepted. </p>
<p>Also, IU-B has new admission standards that kick in for applicants for 2010 and 2011. By 2011, the Indiana state legislature has mandated that for acceptance IU-B administrators should be looking at students in the top 40% of their graduating class for in-state students and top 30% for out-of-state students. Whether the school will be able to get a decent sized-class with those standards (or whether they will cut enrollment to meet those standards) remains to be seen.</p>
<p>I just got accepted with a gpa of 2.9 and an ACT of 28. I played baseball and was part of the speech/debate team, and also volunteered at a hospital. You will be fine!</p>
<p>Just as a note. Acceptance is becoming more difficult, but it also depends upon how many difficult classes you took. I'll bet that mananwagha had a 2.9 GPA unweighted--and probably took enough classes so that his/her weighted GPA was at least a 3.2</p>
<p>Also, note that the test score was higher than the average for the school (the average is 26, mananwagha had a 28).</p>
<p>Along these lines, let me tell you another statistic that will show you how it is getting more difficult to get into the top programs at IU-B:</p>
<p>In 2004, it took a 3.5 GPA in your first year at IU-B to be admitted to the Hutton Honors and Mitte honors programs. In 2006, this went up to a 3.6 GPA for admission to both, and in 2007, this went up to a 3.7 GPA for admission.</p>
<p>Similarly, the admission standards for incoming freshmen for direct admit status to the business school has also increased. In Fall 2006, it took a 3.5 GPA and a 1270 SAT (or ACT of 29) for admittance. Today (for Fall 2009 admission), it takes a 3.6 GPA and a 1270 SAT (or ACT of 29) for admittance. And I'm sure the requirements for direct admit status to other programs has also gotten tougher.</p>