My son, international applicant, finance major, admitted to MSU and Indiana University (not direct admit to Kelley), can afford cost at both schools, but have never been to neither school. Need some perspectives, please share your opinions. Thank you very much.
What’s important to your son in a college experience?
Academically, I would say both schools are similar overall, with IU being negligibly more prestigious. But for a Finance major, Kelley has a clear advantage. However, admission into Kelley as a IU student is not easy. It’s actually very difficult in my opinion. http://kelley.iu.edu/Ugrad/Admissions/CurrentIU/page39067.html these are the requirements your son has to meet to be CONSIDERED for admission. Even if he meets all of them, he might still not get admitted for whatever reason and won’t be able to major in Finance. And you never know how long it’s going to take him to adapt to the school. He might want to drop a class or something and then he’ll be at a clear disadvantage for Kelley if he does it. Or he might choose not to drop the class but end up getting a B- because of lack of interest and dedication and become ineligible for consideration. Choosing IU would be risky.
My advice is that if Finance is really important to your son and he doesn’t have a clear interest in other areas, he should go to MSU as he was admitted directly into his program of choice.
Good luck to your son and congratulations on his acceptances!
Thanks @undecidedac96, at MSU , he was also admitted into pre-business (to Eli Broad Business School) so situation wise is about the same