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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of dummy can't maintain a 3.3 GPA in undergraduate business classes?  Maybe have him skip the fraternity if you're so concerned. [/quote]
I think you're missing the main issue here. While we could debate whether the GPA threshold should be 3.0, 3.3, or 3.5, that's not really the point. The real problem is the timing. This represents a significant policy change implemented after students had already committed and paid their enrollment deposits.

Some students likely would have made different college decisions if these new requirements had been disclosed upfront. While this doesn't affect my family directly (my child doesn't attend IU), I can understand the frustration these families must be feeling.

When we were evaluating colleges, we carefully researched secondary admission requirements at every school my child considered. These policies absolutely influenced our decision-making process. A change of this magnitude would have prompted us to reach out to other schools where my child had been accepted to explore options.

The issue isn't necessarily the standards themselves, but rather the lack of transparency and poor timing of this policy change.[/quote]

Everyone is missing the point here. If you are not a DA at Kelley, don’t try to go there unless you are happy with other majors at IU. Kelley is competitive unlike the rest of IU. So if your DC is average and you think he can make Kelley as pre business, you are missing the point. Let us get realistic parents. Kelley requires at least 3.8 HS GPA FYI.[/quote]

This is factually uncorrect. There are incoming pre-business students with >3.9 GPAs and >1300 SATs who did not meet direct admit standard for direct admission (3.8 GPA and minimum 1370 SAT) and also did not get admitted after the direct admit review was requested based on high GPA and close to the minimum SAT standard.

This is fine and somewhat expected given the historically high numbers of Kelley applicants this year.

But this also isn’t the point.  One of the previous posters framed the issue perfectly — i.e., it’s all about the timing of the change — and students, like the above one with the 3.9 GPA, would have made different college decisions if this revised standard was disclosed upfront.

Bottom line — Kelley admitted too many students overall for this freshman year via direct admit + pre-business, and therefore needs to cut back numbers for standard admissions after freshman year.  The easiest way to do this is to change the standard. Kelley also wants to raise the standards for all its future students (to avoid dropping further in several rating systems). Changing the standard moving forward also achieves this objective.

It’s obviously a bad look for Kelley make this change after May 1, but the school just did what was in its best long term interests, at least from a business perspective.

Best of luck everyone. [/quote]

Well, SAT is also a factor. 1300 is a death sentence for any application. some DAs I know are north of 1450-1500. 1300 could drag the whole application. The whole college application process has become increasingly competitive. [/quote]

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