<p>How hard is it to get into Kelley after freshman year?</p>
<p>This was discussed before on this site at these threads:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/indiana-university-bloomington/434663-does-anyone-know-percentage-people-get-into-kelley.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/indiana-university-bloomington/434663-does-anyone-know-percentage-people-get-into-kelley.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/indiana-university-bloomington/419959-if-not-direct-admit-too-hard-get-kelley.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/indiana-university-bloomington/419959-if-not-direct-admit-too-hard-get-kelley.html</a></p>
<p>However, since the time these were posted back in November/December, it was noted that the number of direct admission students being accepted this year is going up considerably–meaning that if these people all accept admission to Indiana University and the Kelley School, then the administration will either need to add professors (which they probably will do), or admit fewer non-direct admit students.</p>
<p>P.S. I’m presuming in my answer above that you are referring to being admitted at the end of the freshman year and not as a sophomore or junior year applicant. I don’t believe they accept junior year applicants (unless you are transferring in to start at Kelley as a junior year student)–and the statistics for sophomore year admits are lumped in with the freshman applicants–meaning it is probably equally easy/difficult to get in during your first two years at the school.</p>
<p>I’m guessing the number of direct admits has grown considerably the last few years. The honors accounting class is offered only in the Spring session and the classes get harder to get into each year. You have to be a direct admit to take it and only eight freshmen are in this year’s A205 classes. There really is no easy way that you could take A205 the second semester of your sophomore year because it is required for Icore, which pretty much should be taken first semester of junior year. </p>
<p>Kelley added a third section in 2007 (and added a minimum gpa requirement for 2008) of A205, probably to get more freshmen in, but the number is still low. I think that a lot of direct admits are coming in with large numbers of AP and other types of credit, and they are still taking A205 in their first year of college, but are sophomore standing because of college credit earned in high school. Unless Kelley adds more sections, if you are a direct admit with little or no credits coming in to IU, there is a good chance that you won’t be able to sign up for A205, regardless of whether you plan to major in accounting, because the Kelley direct admits and Hutton Honors students with the most college credit get first shot to sign up for A205, which had a waitlist of zero students in 2006 and 24 students this semester.</p>
<p>Class standing of A205 students:
Spring 2008
FR08 SO108 JR31 SR4 3 sections (24 waitlist) (0 openings)</p>
<p>Spring 2007
FR33 SO81 JR35 SR0 3 sections (10 waitlist) (3 openings)</p>
<p>Spring 2006
FR23 SO41 JR05 SR01 2 sections (0 waitlist) (11 openings)</p>
<p>The data is all on Business Week (for 2006-2007 anyway):</p>
<p>7434 freshmen (admitted and denied) sought full-time admission to the business program for the 2006-2007 academic year.</p>
<p>28% of these applicants were admitted to the program and 68% of admitted students enrolled.</p>
<p>1306 internal candidates (admitted and denied) sought full-time admission to the business program for the 2006-2007 academic year. 70% were admitted to the program.</p>
<p>So about 28% are direct admit and 70% of people who go the regular route get admitted.</p>
<p>Waverian,</p>
<p>The first numbers printed here I think refer to being admitted as a declared business major–which is not the same as being admitted to the Kelley school.</p>
<p>If you use your numbers of applicants (7,434) x .28 = 2081.52</p>
<p>Then presume 68% enroll: 2081.52 x .68 = 1415.43 (so say 1415).</p>
<p>However, if you go to IU’s common data set and look at the number of graduates with baccaulaureate degrees in business in one year (2007), you’ll see the number was 1,176. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.indiana.edu/~urr/degrees/2006-07%20Degree%20Report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.indiana.edu/~urr/degrees/2006-07%20Degree%20Report.pdf</a></p>
<p>(page 10)</p>
<p>They accept approximately 1,415 as declared business majors to get 1,176 graduates (because some students will change majors or not qualify for Kelley, and to allow for some additions/subtractions as a result of transfer students).</p>
<p>Your second number: 1306 applied and 70% were admitted (1306 x .7 = 914) is exactly correct, however. These are the non-direct-admits. (My estimate was 890 in my previous posts in the other threads listed above).</p>
<p>Based upon this, we can conclude that approximately (1,176 - 914 = 252) were the number of direct admits that got into Kelley as freshmen. (this presumes all the direct admits graduated as business majors). </p>
<p>As indicated in the previous thread, this number is estimated to be going up to 700 by some people–but, of course, what really matters is how many direct admit students register and attend IU-Bloomington. This will determine whether the school has to add faculty, or start restricting the number of non-direct-admit business students admitted to the university.</p>
<p>You know, looking at these numbers shows the difficulty in getting into the business school (28%) versus the school at large (about 70%). I’m presuming similar tight percentages may also apply to the music and foreign language programs.</p>