<p>I was rejected by Kelley Honors today. I had a subpar 3.88 cummulative freshman year GPA after taking many of the required courses and then some sophomore ones. I suppose I did not log enough leadership hours, though I still did the CLD club and student government. </p>
<p>In any case, is the IB workshop even a possibility now as a Non-Business Honors student? I'm really discouraged because I had Kelley Honors as my main goal for the year and I missed it. I was going to use it to help my resume for the IB workshop and the Investment Management workshop(2nd choice).</p>
<p>Some IBW members (see link below) were not from the business honors program. In addition to the IBW, the IB seminar program had some decent record. </p>
<p>Was the subpar comment sarcastic? Because that’s pretty high, I heard you’re automatically grouped with everyone else as long as you have above a 3.8? But the leadership thing does play in.</p>
<p>How much weight does your schedule have when being considered for admission? I imagine most schedules look very similar, but is it known what they like and dislike?</p>
<p>Anyways, sorry for the rejection. It’s a goal for my freshman year. But I’ve looked at probably every IBW members’ resumes from the past three years (before they updated) and only a portion of students are Kelley Honors. Definitely still a chance.</p>
<p>Thanks Coste, Yes it was a bit sarcastic and showed my frustration at the time. I’m not sure what ruled me out, but I’ll have to move on. </p>
<p>I’m looking at the resumes and they are extremely impressive. It will be tough to compete against this kind of caliber of students. I hope I can carve my own niche and make it into the IBW. </p>
<p>I actually met with the KH office earlier this year and they liked the fact that I took Calc, finite, k201, and x201 along with many other kelley pre-reqs this past freshman year. I don’t think it was strength of schedule that limited me. </p>
<p>P.S.</p>
<p>I started remaking my resume and taking bits and pieces of style/format I liked from each one of the IBW members. I have also viewed other top business school’s career compared their sample resume format versus Kelley’s. I think I can get a refreshing style that may improve and I advise you to try this as well (though it looks like you’re miles ahead of me)</p>
<p>Oh and I realize now I didn’t really contribute anything to actually answer your question. Anyway, I honestly don’t think being in honors has much impact on your chances at the workshop. It looks fine on a resume, which may be marginally helpful in your initial application, but that seems to be about it.</p>
<p>Not being in honors alone may not impede your chances at getting into the workshop, but I’d be more worried if I were you about whatever kept you out of Kelley Honors with a 3.88. I would think about the strength of your resume (If you had HS stuff on it, get rid of it) and whatever tone you used in your essay. A 3.88 is not the best GPA after freshman year, but it is very good and I know of quite a few students in your class in the 3.75-3.85 range that got accepted. If you want to be competitive for the top jobs/Kelley programs I recommend focusing on improving whatever kept you out, because it was not your GPA or schedule.</p>