<p>During the begining of your freshman year, are YOU TAKING COURSES IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL (KELLEY?) Or are you taking other courses, like english/history in another school at IU? I'm going there in 2 years for finance, aspiring to be recruited to a bulge bank, "Goldman Sachs."</p>
<p>"Do you have to earn your way into Kelley?" Someone told me that if your not a direct admit, you can't enter Kelley until your a sophomore... IS THIS TRUE? I do have a 3.5, but making a worst case scenario...</p>
<p>I WAN'T TO BE IN THE BUSINESS SCHOOL THE FIRST DAY I WALK ON CAMPUS!</p>
<p>No, from what I understand, pleanty of students (if not the majority of Kelley students) gain admission to Kelley at the end of their freshman year. I think you have the opportunity to take some bclasses durring your freshman year.<br>
According to the direct admit letter I recieved it says da freshman will "not have to apply for admission durring the end of their freshman year," "have the opportunity to take special honors businesses classes," and be assigned some sorta advisor. From the letter it seems that if you're not a da, you apply again at the end of your freshman year to begin Kelley at the start of your sophmore year.</p>
<p>I am not a direct admit (I'll be attending IU this fall) and I will still be taking business courses my freshman year. I'm gonna be in something called a FIG (Freshman Interest Group) where I will be taking 3 Business courses (since I chose a Business FIG) along with the ~20 or so people who will be in the FIG with me. And I will apply to Kelley at the end of freshmen year after I have completed the prerequisite classes for Kelley and have 25 credit hours. So yeah it's very do-able from what I've heard. Being a direct admit just gives you that security I guess and has a few perks maybe.</p>
<p>Fewer than 1 out of 10 Kelley students get in through direct admit status (some say the ratio is 1 out of 90--though I can't say for sure since I haven't been able to find out if the school puts out this statistic). Students who are not direct admits to Kelley can start taking classes in the business school immediately upon admittance to Indiana University, but to officially progress to the I-Core classes (offered in the junior year), you must apply and be accepted to the Kelley School of Business by the end of the sophomore year--and finish a large group of courses which are prerequisites for the I-core program (about 15 courses are prerequisites). </p>
<p>Because of the courses that are required to be taken in order to qualify to apply to Kelley (about 4 courses), it is not possible to apply to Kelley (if you are not a direct admit) until the end of the freshman year.</p>
<p>The good news/bad news about this is that you are not charged an extra $1000 per year for being in the business school (which the direct admits have to pay), but you also don't get to take honors courses--and in the freshman year having this privilege can be important--because it is sometimes tough to get the business courses and/or the courses with the better instructors in the freshman year otherwise.</p>