<p>As a rising high school senior with a 3.9 uw average, and 33 ACT, i'm interested in business and or engineering. I've read all the posts trying to get a true picture of kelley, but having hard time separating fact from fiction. Would appreciate any unbiased insights. Also, since i'm leaning toward business i was hoping to get suggestions about other business school programs. Finances are a concern.</p>
<p>I've not gone to Kelley (my son's there), so I'll leave it to others to comment on attending classes there.</p>
<p>However, if you want to know more about other business and engineering schools, I suggest you post your inquiry at the following two collegeconfidential websites:</p>
<p>Good luck with your decision on where to go to college.</p>
<p>many thanks. what does your son think of kelley?</p>
<p>Dude, with your stats, if you apply early enough (before Nov 1), you should get a substantial amount in scholarships. At least, that's how I would have evaluated it given the circumstances when I applied two years ago. Nonetheless, you should still be able to get DA status and some good money if you apply to Kelley. </p>
<p>As far as other business programs go, UVA, NYU stern, and Umich are all very strong (viewed at large as being superior to Kelley), and judging by your grades and ACT score I think you have a fair shot at all of them. As a forewarning, htough--NYU is expensive as ****, and supposedly stingy with financial aid.</p>
<p>Kelley itself has been awesome for me so far. The school provides you with a plethora of career-enhancing opportunities for your disposal. Most of the professors are pretty good, both knowledge-wise and in affability.</p>
<p>One thing that hasn't been addressed is that there is no engineering at IU.<br>
Given you are from IL, you should definintely apply to U of I. I know for a state school it's expensive, but it's a good idea to have that backup plan.</p>
<p>rrah, yes, i will apply to U of I, probably for business, since my interest in engineering waning the more I delve into it.</p>
<p>piemastarr, thanks for the guidance, i will look into UVA and UMich, though not NYU. it all comes down to finances so it may wind up being a jumpball between U of I and IU.</p>
<p>In answer to your question, rocco100, my son is enjoying Indiana University, but not the weather there (we live in Northern California near the coast, in a redwood forest, halfway between San Francisco and Monterey--so we're kind of spoiled when it comes to weather).</p>
<p>Anyway, he went to Indiana University originally as a Finance major, but has decided he'd rather go into Consulting, or Law (primarily working on Financial contracts or Financial Mergers). He tried transferring to USC this year because they have a better Consulting major than Indiana, but was unsuccessful (due to poor spring grades). As a result, he'll be finishing up his degree at Indiana in their excellent Legal Studies major (in the Business School), which is ranked as the 4th best program in this field in the country.</p>
<p>NOTE: Indiana has an absolutely excellent Strategic Consulting major at the MBA level (one of the top 8 programs in the county, probably), but a very limited Economic Consulting major at the undergraduate level (good if you are going into banking or HR, but not so good for general top management or process reviews or IT consulting). One might consider this if they are coming to Indiana Univ for this major. P.S. For those planning to go into IT Consulting, take the CIS major in the business school, or the Computer Science major in the College of Letters and Sciences instead of the Economic Consulting major in the business school.</p>
<p>I'd say considering my son's high school grades and interests, and where he applied and was accepted, Indiana University and their Kelley Business School have worked out very well for him. </p>
<p>There are things we wished were posted on the collegeconfidential site when he first started at Kelley (there is so much more info now than there was two years ago), because then he would have been more active in certain activities, and would have taken classes in a different order--and studied much harder in some classes than he originally did--but all-in-all, given the chance to start over from the freshman year on, he probably still would have gone to Indiana University right out of high school.</p>