<p>i'm the latter. it's good to know i can be doubted though. i mean really.</p>
<p>I'm just saying that if you weren't a urm, with those stats you would not be getting a scholarship. It's completely factual; look at how IU awards scholarships. I'm sorry I appear so harsh, but that is the truth.</p>
<p>I am looking at housing, and Mason Hall sounds awesome.
can anyone tell me more about it?</p>
<p>Officially attending IU in the fall!</p>
<p>Yesterday I sent in my Indiana deposit (which made me happy) and the reply cards to the schools I won't be attending (which made me a little sad). My comfort is that I'll get to spend the next four years doing neuroscience research, which will be awesome. Just have to get used to the color red now.</p>
<p>I'm accepted and will visit campus soon, hoping for this weekend. Yeah, it's Easter, but that was when I have more days off school so I don't have to miss classes. Anyone have any suggestions for things to do during the weekend?</p>
<p>Actually happyface2002 could still have gotten that size of a scholarship and not be a urm if his school submitted the weighted GPA--and if his weighted GPA was quite a bit higher than the unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>I've seen people with 3.00 GPAs, but weighted GPAs over 3.60 since about 2/3rds of their courses were honors courses or AP courses or IB courses, so the fact that happyface2002 is a URM is not necessarily the reason for the larger scholarship (and note that the SAT is about at the Indiana University average).</p>
<p>Look at the post above his:</p>
<p>3.35 uw
3.76 w
33 ACT
this person got a 5k scholarship</p>
<p>vs</p>
<p>3.06 uw
23 act
this person got a 7k scholarship</p>
<p>IU Prestige (all)
$5,000 per year</p>
<p>IU Prestige is a scholarship awarded to in-state and out-of-state students who have attained a prestigious level of academic achievement in high school. Students that have a SAT score of 1260 or above or ACT score of 28 or above, and a minimum GPA of 3.70, will receive an IU Prestige Scholarship at the time of admission (valued at $20,000 over four years).</p>
<p>Excuse my ignorance, but what is an urm?</p>
<p>"Urm" stands for "underrepresented minority."</p>
<p>i don't understand how adding urms makes the school any better? why do employers, the schools or anyone care if there is "diversity" or not, it should be the most qualified people and race should not be a factor because that in it self is discrimination/racism against non-urms, it should race-blind admissions</p>
<p>I do think that colleges tend to make an idol of diversity, and the perks they offer in attracting minorities are questionable, but unfortunately, I think the societal benefits of being white or Asian well outweigh anything a URM gains in the college admissions process. The benefits in college admission don't make up for societal inequality, of course, but the fact that society is inequitable makes diversity important. Racism is a problem in America, but I think the separation of races is just as big a problem. How can people of various races and ethnic groups trust each other if they aren't ever around each other? </p>
<p>Coming from a community that is 98% white, my experience with black people comes from history text books (the Civil War and the civil rights movement) and maybe two or three classmates throughout the twelve years I've been in school. My experience with Hispanic people is, frankly, limited to foodservice and another smattering of classmates. I have no conscious animosity towards these groups and no conscious sense of superiority, but because I've lived in such an insular community, I know that my perceptions of other races are skewed. They have to be, because I'm never around other races. Diversity in colleges helps to remedy this sort of isolationism, and eventually will make race less of an issue in society (and I'm not just talking about white isolationism--EVERYONE needs to get used to everyone else). </p>
<p>But then comes the problem with treating URMs differently--how do we act like we're all in college on our own merit, like we're all equals, when for some it wasn't entirely merit? When can the system be removed? When is it worth a drop in minority enrollment to stop engineering incoming classes to certain demographics? I don't know. I can think of everyone different from me as a teacher, and how they came to be here isn't important because it is to my benefit, but maybe others can't. These are difficult questions. There probably aren't any good answers. Seems to be the way of the world.</p>
<p>Anyway, sorry for the tangent. So...hooray Indiana?</p>
<p>5.1/5.0 W GPA
33 ACT
$9,000 scholarship
Kelley School of Business
Accepted admission, who wants to be my friend next year?!?!</p>
<p>im also a kelley direct admit and accepted admission, pm me?</p>
<p>I’m a Kelley direct admit. Nice to meet all of you!</p>