The ACTUAL truth about IU Kelley
The stuff I've seen about IU Kelley on this website is so polarizing and untrue. Half of the people compare it to Harvard and Wharton (seriously) and the other half say it's complete dogshit. So here's the truth for prospective students...
Kelley should not be compared to Wharton and Ross or any top targets. It doesn't come close to any of these.
However, Kelley can definitely be compared to certain semi-targets (UT mccombs, UNC KF, Wake Forest). I'd say Kelley is a tad bit worse as an overall business school than Mccombs and UNC KF, but a tad bit better than Wake Forest.
Conclusion: IU Kelley is a great business school and better than probably better than 90% of undergrad business schools. It is not very prestigious due to it being a part of IU school system, but who gives 2 shits about prestige when it's career offices are great.
Disclaimer: I'm not a Kelley student, but I have many family friends at IU and they all have great career opportunities. Most of my friends go to UT and A&M, as I live near Houston and they even say Kelley is much better than A&M Mays and is as good if not just a little lower than Mccombs.
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The thing about Kelley is that it's not hard to get into. However, once you are in, it's hard to be the creme de la creme. Kelley is an incredibly diverse (and large) school; there are kids who got into multiple Ivys but got a full ride to IU so decided to stay in state, but there are also kids who had no other option and have little to no ambition tbh. If you find a Kelley kid on Wall St, know that they worked their butts off to be there and they were probably at the top of the class. There can be a massive amount of competition there.
tbh just don't let a school name or a post on this damn forum influence your judgement on anyone, Kelley student or not.
Judging from the IBW admission statistics that Kelley kids like to cite on this website, the competition can't be that hard at all. Near or above a 50% acceptance rate is extremely high considering that most kids who go to Kelley for IB didn't get into any target schools. I'm sure there are a few exceptions for those who were in state, but these are few and far between. I would argue that a kid from a random state flagship would have worked harder and likely been smarter than someone who broke in from Kelley.
Not the above intern but I go to IU. The 50% acceptance rate is deceivingly tough as almost everyone who applies has a high GPA and is committed to IB since you have to take 2 IB classes. For example, the average GPA of the workshop is between 3.8-3.9, while the average GPA of Kelley is around 3.3/3.4. Also, about a 1/3 of Kelley is from Indiana, so a lot of students are going to school for a bargain. If you look at the Workshop resumes online, most are either paying in-state tuition and/or got max or close to the max merit scholarships. The kids that barely meet the minimums of a 3.8 HS GPA and 30 ACT aren't the ones getting in or even applying to the Workshop; they're the ones rounding out the bottom of the bell curve. IU places a lot of kids into IB but you have to work hard and be near the top of the class.
Yeah people should not be deciding just because of a wall street oasis forum
Ignore this spam.
This poster is the same Kelley kid that was arguing in another thread asking for someone's name so he could have proof they went to a certain school and had a certain major. Also argued that because IU Kelley had average graduating salaries close to target or semi-targets, that it must be near their level of placement.
Also, OP, why did you change your name from yesterday? You switched it from "Kelley Kid 2020" after you acted "belligerent" (quoted from another user on the post) and like a young child. Stop spamming this website with your fucking propaganda in order to convince highschoolers and college kids of how much prestige you have and what a great school you go to. The same group of Kelley kids making new accounts and changing their names so it looks like there are hundreds of them.
"I'm not a Kelley student" Thats a blatant lie. I'm sure after you've realized your mistake here you will just start posting anonymously and continue lying. I used to think that Kelley was a decent school, but posters from there on this website have convinced me otherwise. At what point should these users be banned for blatantly contradicting themselves and being caught out in numerous lies?
Here's a piece of life advice for anyone reading this: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is probably a duck. Anyone shilling this hard for a school obviously goes to that school. This is hands down the most pathetic thread I've seen on this forum, beating out all of the other posts by Kelley kids.
EDIT: Judging from his comment replies on this account when he meant to post anonymously, I'd bet my left testicle that OP is also the anon poster of this post:
wallstreetoasis(dot)com/forums/why-iu-kelley-is-a-target-school
If you believe that, like I do, then just take a look all the other comments on the post by Prospect IB M&A who is clearly the OP of that post. Absolute clown and nobody should take this kid seriously. Singlehandedly tarnishing the reputation of IU Kelley on this website.
I got off the waitlist to a different school yesterday morning and that is why i changed my name. Also, all the "prospect" posts are not me those were some other kids as well.
I realize I was wrong then to prop up Kelley just because I thought I was going there. This is unfair to other prospective students.
I decided I should make a post on what Kelley is really like because I was being an a-hole in the other thread. This was not my opinion at all.
I used my family friends, friends, and others on reddit for this. I had to clear my conscience lol just in case some kid chooses IU over Duke
This is also why I didn't stay anon for this post. I wanted someone to check my comment history so I could explain my prior posts.
I want to tell you and any other high schoolers who read this. Please stop making threads pretending you know shit about schools you don't go to. Even if you research the school, you're spreading misinformation. You haven't stepped a foot on campus as a student and you're just spreading what you've heard from others as facts. Until you've personally been through recruitment, you don't know the full story. Maybe it's just me but a post called "The Actual Truth about IU Kelley" should maybe actually be posted by someone who went to the school rather than a random high schooler.
OP seems like a weirdo, but if you were the Princeton kid, you are no better than he is. You sounded extremely pretentious just because you go to an ivy. No bank will recruit you with that attitude.
OP is retarded for thinking Kelley is a target, it's a lower semi-target IMO (my bank recruits there). But you need to get off your high-horse. Kelley is a nice business program, just not what OP made it out to be in his original post
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