Why would the ACT superscore not count for the ACT 30 minimum? I know very little about ACT scoring as it’s not much of a West Coast thing, but I’m pretty sure IU requires a 30 ACT and allows SAT superscore.
If I’m reading here correctly … sounds like the admits so far applied early (August). Congrats to those kiddos! This is a great reward for being prepared and finishing the application so early in the cycle!
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Agree - IU uses superscore along with weighted GPA - there is online tool to determine if you need to complete a review request:
Last year their website said superscore would need the petition/waiver request. At an orientation it was said for last year even though they stated it, they were still accepting suoerscore without petition. But they said it would likely be the last year. Best to contact admissions or fill it out. I could not find the statement last month as the website changed slightly.
I just went to the website to check on this too, and couldn’t find it. My memory was they were taking the ACT superscore, but you couldn’t self-report it–you had to pay to send the scores. With that in mind, S24 self-reported his SAT and didn’t even report his ACT.
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Is it possible to have applied to IU, made a petition request to Kelley with a Marketing BSB major, and be admitted on the portal, and then not be directly admitted to Kelley when you receive the email about a week from now? I would think there would be some indication on the portal but I could be wrong. The portal makes an applicant believe he or she is admitted to Kelley with a Marketing BSB Plan.
If the portal says both admitted and Marketing BSB, then I think it only makes sense that she was admitted to Marketing BSB.
If the portal says admitted but not the major–then you aren’t in the major yet.
If the portal lists the major but not yet an “admitted”–then it has no meaning. (Because there can be no major if you aren’t in the school. That would be a cart before the horse situation.)
If I got admitted to IU and intend to double major, how would I do that? Do I need apply somewhere?
Yes it is possible to not yet be admitted to Kelley despite it reading Marketing BSB. I appreciate the common sense here but you have to understand Hyland OnBase software. There are two separate admission decisions - IU and then Kelley. It also does not mean you are not admitted. It just is not an admissions input in the software. If you need additional proof you can find this question in IU threads from past years as well as every other school that uses this software.
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I thought that part of the change this year was to keep Kelley admissions combined with IU decisions before releasing to avoid the confusion.
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same here
Yes combined admission decision is a part of the desired change - we will see shortly if they accomplished that. When the emails come out you may see both IU and Kelley in that email. Then we’ll all know. This is solely answering the question is it possible to be admitted to IU and the portal reads Program/Plan Marketing BSB but not yet have been admitted to Kelley.
The answer is yes - that happened all the time in the past.
I really hope the decisions are integrated at once for all applicants.
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Wow that seems not confusing but pretty cruel to keep all that information on the portal regarding a BSB Major Plan and say you are admitted to IU on the same page below and then when you get the letter or email in a week or so to get a general admit to IU. Regardless of software issues, I would think this would have been fixed many cycles ago.
I do not understand Hyland OnBase, but I would like to! What is the input that causes the major to change in the portal from pre-x to x? I’m not a cs person, but it seems to me there has to be a way to make sure it doesn’t change if there has not yet been a major decision by the college.
In previous years, as I understand it … after being admitted to the U, the app went to the college for direct admit consideration. So everyone who got an acceptance on the portal knew that they were still waiting on direct admit.
This year, IU said we are changing the process and we will tell you both at once. But now people are seeing an acceptance on the portal and do not know what it means.
I am reminding myself that we are in the year of change. And often things get worse before they get better. Hopefully next year’s class learns from this year’s confusion!
Once my son receives the email or additional information on his Kelley status I will come back and update. If the update email or other following information still has not cleared up his Kelley status we may then try a phone call to admissions. For today we are celebrating his admission!
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I am thinking this is the case as well as it does not say Pre Business.
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What does it say for Program?
In the software it is an authorization input not an admissions input. We are choosing to read it as an active admissions decision for optimism and excitement which is great. In practical reality it assigns the student’s portal to the particular program/plan for review straight from the student application. Separately the applicant may have been admitted or not to that college. If you were on a wait list for Kelley it would still read exactly as it does, for example - it would not read pre-business or Marketing BSB wait list.
All of this has nothing to do with whether a student is in fact admitted to Kelley or any other direct admit school. It should be tempered optimism. Those schools will send an admissions decision regardless of how the portal reads. Typically the Kelley acceptance comes straight from Kelley not via the portal. The portal is an IU the University thing.
Why would an applicant be admitted to IU generally when he or she indicated an academic plan of a BSB major in response to the IU application questions and petitioned to be in Kelley? This applicant is not interested in going to IU generally. It does not make any sense for IU admissions to admit an applicant to IU generally in this instance and take a spot from someone else who really wants to be in the IU Arts and Sciences etc. Most other universities (for example, Villanova) that have undergraduate business schools that you can apply to directly don’t even look at or review an application from a general admission standpoint. If you don’t get into the business school, you cannot then be considered for general admission to the university. With the more simple review process, I would think Kelley admission staff would get first crack at an admission decision and that is what is being reported now regardless of software issues.
This is similar at other schools as well actually especially for Business. Michigan State is one example.
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