I am currently a high school senior planning on applying for Kelley standard admit. I’m hoping to get advice for an ideal freshman year schedule that would make it manageable to get Bs or above in all of my classes. I’m also looking for advice as for what classes I can take over the summer at a community college for credits.
Thanks in advance!
What credits, if any, are you coming in with, and what are your best/worst subjects?
I’ll be coming in with 3 undistributed credits from a 3 in AP Macro and 3 undistributed credits from a 3 in AP Lang. I also got a 680 in SAT reading so that should exempt me from the English composition requirement if I’m not mistaken.
You can look up grade distribution for all classes at IU here: http://gradedistribution.registrar.indiana.edu/
Here are the standard admit requirements: https://kelley.iu.edu/Ugrad/Admissions/CurrentIU/page39067.html
C104 and C204 are extremely easy to get above a B in, so I would recommend taking C104 first semester and C204 second semester. C104 is business presentations, and C204 is business communication, but is mostly focused on writing. You don’t have to be great at public speaking or writing to do well, you just have to put in some effort.
K201 is required to be a standard admit, and K303 is very easy to get a B in, so I would recommend K201 in the fall and K303 in the spring. These are Microsoft Excel classes.
Many students who aren’t good at math struggle with M118 and M119 at IU. If you aren’t good at math, you might want to take those at a CC. If you aren’t going to take the math classes at IU, you should probably take E201, and A100 and G202 for the “two additional options from this list”. E201 is a prereq for G202. If you do well in A100, you could replace G202 with either A201 or A202. Compass (T175) is an easy A and required. I would plan on something like what I have below. Note that you need 30 credits to apply to Kelley. If you live in the KLLC, there is a required 1 credit class each semester that would get you to 30. If not, you could add a 1 credit activity class each semester like basketball or tennis.
Fall:
C104 (3 credits), K201 (3), E201 (3), A100 (1), T175 (1.5), Gen ed (3)
Total: 14.5 credits
Spring:
C204 (3), K303 (3), G202 (2), Gen ed (3), Gen ed (3)
Total: 14 credits
Gen ed requirements can be found here: http://gened.indiana.edu/Students/requirements.html
You need 1 natural science (not all N&M are natural science), 2 A&H, and some combination of classes to fulfill the world culture requirement. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you so much for the help. I did forget to mention that math is not my strongest subject and I would be hesitant to take it first year at IU for standard admit. It seems that there are certain classes I have to take at IU and not at CC in order to be considered for standard admit. Would you recommend that I take some GenEd classes over the summer from high school to college to decrease my workload then?
I would recommend taking either finite (MATH-M 118) or calc (MATH-M 119) over the summer rather than gen eds. Many gen ed classes are pretty easy and grade favorably.
I would go through the list of gen eds and find several that sound interesting, then look up the grade distribution and see how it looks. If you don’t plan on studying abroad or taking a foreign language, I would highly recommend taking 2 classes that double count for World Culture and Arts and Humanities. I took Ancient Greek Culture (CLAS-C 101) and Intro to the Old Testament (REL-A 210). They both double count and were pretty easy. Many students take Intro to Psychology (PSY-P 101) for natural science, and I have heard it’s pretty easy.
Taking finite/calc wouldn’t help decrease my Freshman courseload then, correct? My main reason for wanting to take CC classes is to decrease my Freshman courseload to maximize my chances for standard admit, but it seems like I have to take the same classes for standard admit regardless.
It could help you decrease your course load a little bit, but you need to stay on track to graduate by taking around 15 credits of required classes per semester