<p>I was recently admitted into Indiana University and am strongly considering it. I was admitted into Biology, but am confused as to how the university division works. Do all students get placed into the university division or are some accepted into their major as a freshman? I ask this because within my acceptance packet there was a sheet that says university division. My quick stats are 29 ACT and 4.6/5 GPA if that matters.</p>
<p>About 90% of freshman at IU are in the University Division. It means you have been accepted as a student at IU, but not yet eligible to declare a major or officially become part of one of the schools/colleges at Indiana University. A few students are directly admitted to their eventual school or college, but relatively few in the College of Arts and Sciences. The biology dept. is part of the COAS. Sometime during your freshman or sophomore year you will declare your major–biology. You must do this by the semester you have 55 credit hours. If you come in with lots of AP hours it could be as soon as your spring semester freshman year. Some schools, Kelley and Informatics for example, have very clear guidelines about admission requirements to those schools.</p>
<p>Being in University Division in no way limits courses you can take provided you have the prerequisites. It’s the way IU has long chosen to classify freshman or undeclared students. It’s also a way to provide advising aimed at freshman generally rather than more specific major counseling. For further info look at search Bulletins on the IUB website and University Division.</p>
<p>Great thanks for clearing that up.</p>
<p>Swimmer…did you enroll before the deadline for scholarship consideraton? If so, did you get an application for selective scholarships?</p>
<p>I ask because … I don’t know what the stats are to garner one a direct admit to CAS, but my D applied back in October and didn’t get her direct admit to CAS until maybe 2-3 weeks ago. So I ASSUME it was after they received her SSA application?</p>
<p>I’m looking at my D’s initial acceptance but I don’t see either University or CAS anywhere. If you tell me what paper it’s on, I can look to see if hers said that first too.</p>
<p>My daughter got admitted to IU and will just need to satisfy some requirements (take some credits) before she gets into the Therapeutic Recreation major. She just got a letter yesterday in the mail addressing this.</p>
<p>The University Division paper was literally just a paper insert that said “University Division” and was red. There wasn’t much on it other than a brief overview of it. As far as scholarship notification goes, I doubt I’ll receive any sort of notification. I applied after the priority deadline so according to IU’s website I won’t recieve anything even though stats-wise I fit.</p>
<p>im not sure exactly what you mean (im not from indiana so i dont know how the system works there) but i applied late Dec and i got my acceptance notification Jan 8th and it said that i got into Kelly. </p>
<p>hope that helps</p>
<p>Swimmer…Yeah, I looked at my D’s paperwork and didn’t see any red paper like that. Even though, at her initial acceptance I’m guessing that must have meant she was in University Division too…until everything was processed. So…IDK, sorry. But, as you heard…it’s “the norm” to be in University Division, not anything to worry about at ALL!</p>
<p>son got a separate letter regarding direct admit about a week ago after filling out his ssa. direct admist to coas in chemistry</p>