Kelley Standard Admission Acceptance

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I’m a rising sophomore this fall and just yesterday I got accepted into Kelley through standard admission. I hope that this post can help anyone looking to take the dreaded standard admission route.

To provide some context, I’m a white male out of state student that had maybe a 3.4 GPA at a fairly competitive high school and a 27 ACT.

1st Semester:
BUS A-100: W
POLS-Y 105 (Intro to Political Theory): B-
Finite: B
EDUC-U207 (Leadership Training): A
Econ 201: B+
Spanish 250: A-

2nd Semester:
Compass: A
Business Presentations: A-
Spanish 280: A-
BUS K-201: A
M119: A
BUS A-100: B+

GPA: 3.56

Even with two pretty significant blemishes I was lucky enough to get accepted. I hope that any other standard admits are hearing back soon with good news. I’d be happy to answer any questions that incoming standard admit freshman might have.

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Nice. Congrats!

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Congratulations!!! You had a great 2nd semester, retook A-100 and did well in the courses that really counted.

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Thank you for this!

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@scrabblemomb Thank you very much! I wish I had put more effort into A-100 the first time around!!
@mss1996 You’re welcome!

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Congrats Will! I too was accepted through standard admission. To give some more context, here’s how I did. If I can answer any questions please feel free to ask me too.

1st Semester:
Finite: B-
Psych 102: A
BUS-K 160 (Very watered down version of K-201): A
Econ 201: A-
Spanish 280: A

2nd Semester
Compass 1 (1.5 credit hours): A-
Business Presentations: A
Jazz for the Listener: B+
BUS K-201: B+
BUS A-100: B
EDUC X 152 (1 credit class taken with accounting that gives homework to help better understand concepts): A-
Intro to Opera: A+

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Do you recommend taking any courses over the summer? I heard best to take W131

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@Nugent27 W131 can be a tough grading class and would be a good choice if you were going to take a summer class, but it’s definitely possible to take it at IU and do well.

This tool might help you. It allows you to see grade distributions for classes

http://gradedistribution.registrar.indiana.edu/

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If you plan on taking both math classes and getting those out of the way as a freshman (you dont need to as im taking calc this coming semester), I would recommend taking one of those in the summer. Most likely finite as it tends to be the more difficult one across the board.

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Congratulations!! I would appreciate any input and advice as a current Kelley standard admit. Current semester’s schedule is below, and any recommendations for next semester’s schedule (as well as professors). Thanks for any help and feedback!

Math 119 (Brief Survey of Calculus) Gregory Kattner
Econ 201 Paul Graf
Business A 100 (2nd 8 weeks) Vivian Wilson
Folklore 131 Pravina Shukla
History 210 Britains Road to Modernity
Psych 101 Lara Kriegel