<p>Hi, I'm going to be a junior this year, and I've been thinking about a possible career in business(maybe at IU). So my main question is, can anyone who has been involved in the Kelley Scholars Program provide their stats/ academic profile? I want to know if it is an option for me. And how is business at Bloomington. I know its ranked really high, but does it live up to the hype? And how is career placement?Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>It's nearly impossible to get in, I know kids who got into very selective schools but didn't get into Kelley Scholars. You may find a kid on CC (as this is the site with the high achievers) but I doubt it. </p>
<p>Career placement got an A+ from Business Week as the highest grade in the country.</p>
<p>Anyone else. I know there's someone here that's gotten into the Kelley Scholars Program.</p>
<p>Well, maybe not. There aren't that many each year. Take a look at the list for this year if you haven't: <a href="http://kelley.iu.edu/KSB_Global/News/BloomingtonNews/2007News/page8124.html%5B/url%5D">http://kelley.iu.edu/KSB_Global/News/BloomingtonNews/2007News/page8124.html</a></p>
<p>I love how 9/10 students are from Indiana, a sheer business move from Kelley's part. Much easier to pay the IU resident's tuition than the OOS tuition.</p>
<p>There is another factor in play as well - there is a lot of pressure from the Indiana state legislature and business community to keep highly qualified students in-state. Making IU more attractive to them (i.e. with special programs and scholarships) is one way to do it.</p>
<p>IU already has tons of programs for in-state students though, there's the Dean's Scholarship, and for the Kelley students, there is Indiana Advantage awards. This all in addition to the huge in-state reduction, they are keeping the top students in state. There are tons of scholarships that are restricted to Indiana residents, and very few that OOSers can actually qualify for. </p>
<p>If Kelley wants to raise the test scores, rise in the rankings that they are so concerned about, and get the higher quality students, they will have to work with getting the OOS population. Indiana already has two fantastic schools in IU and Purdue in terms of reputation, and these schools split the Indiana population. It's easy to get into both schools because the applicant pool they are drawing from is low - they have all of Indiana that they split. </p>
<p>I'm not saying deny the ability to educate the in-state students to get into the school, as I am pro-low admission standards and giving students the right to at least try and work hard in the collegiate ranks. I'm saying that Indiana, as a state school, as crazy as this sound, does not cater to the OOS population, when they have the opportunity to. There are tons of scholarships out there, and with OOS tuition 3X the amount of in-state tuition, there should be more opportunities to recruit the OOS students with the high test scores. Scholarships shouldn't be so restricted to the in-state students, rather to the most qualifying student.</p>
<p>Also, note that the only out-of-state student that got Kelley scholars this year is a homeschooled individual that qualified for the silver Congressional medal.</p>
<p>This reminds me of Blair Hornstine, who was the lady that got her admission rescinded from Harvard. She was homeschooled and "rigged" the system--using her supposed illness to take or not take certain courses and to find time for volunteer work, and to be able to get instructors changed for grading purposes on certain of her courses. She received the gold Congressional Award for doing 400 hours of voluntary public service, 200 hours of personal development, 200 hours of physical fitness and a 4-day exploration. Turns out her father did about half of this volunteer work, and she had been excused from her physical education requirement by her school because of her illness, yet somehow found time to do the physical requirment work for this award.</p>
<p>Eventually, her admission was rescinded when it was discovered that she plagerized all her "letters to the editor" of a local paper, and it was believed she plagerized some of her school work as well.</p>
<p>For this reason, I tend to question the GPA of those who are homeschooled--and I do this even though my sister runs a homeschooled program for high school students in southern California, many of who have "real" disabilities, and many who homeschool just because it's more convenient for their families.</p>
<p>I'm hoping that Aaron deserves his award--I'm sure he probably does--but how do we really know? ;-) LOL</p>
<p>Here's a follow on regarding Blair Hornstine:</p>
<p>Apparently she decided (or her parents decided) that she should go out of the country to go to school--and so she went to St. Andrews in Scotland.</p>
<p>She studied classics--and now there is a small scholarship fund in her name for people who want to go into that area of student at the school:</p>
<p>(I'm glad she's done well--but was it really necessary that the scholarship fund, which was a gift from her or her parents, be named for her?)</p>