Genuinely Do Not Understand how Kelley Is Not A Semi-Target

How is Kelley not a semi-target? USNews just updated their 2022-2023 rankings, in which IU is tied at #8 with UNC, UVA, USC, and Cornell at 8th place. For the finance major, IU is ranked #7, which is higher than UVA and UNC, which are #10 and #11 respectively. We place a ton of people in IB through the workshops and nearly 100 outside of the workshop in IB alone. If IU is ranked higher than a lot of these semi-targets and even places well, how is non-workshop Kelley still a non-target? KBGCFTW,LYRS

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I don't think banks look at the U.S. News ranking. Ivy's just sound way better than IU. The only reason the workshop is a semi-target is purely because of connections. Non-workshop Kelley doesn't have the connections, and frankly, to banks, has WAY too high of an acceptance rate to be prestigious

 

I don’t know why everyone is dunking on OP. I mean, numbers don’t lie (check the scoreboard). Kelley has the same rankings of a top target school (think: Cornell, Georgetown) but the same parties and fun as a huge state school (think: Alabama, UF). 100% unmatched imho.

 

Just think about it logically. What are the other semi-targets? Vanderbilt, Emory, WashU, Hopkins, CMU, Rice, UNC, UCLA, USC. These schools except UNC(which is a T30) are all T20-T25, have acceptance rates between 6-12% average SATs close to 1500. Whereas Kelley you're literally guaranteed a spot if you have a 3.8 weighted which is like a 3.4 unweighted and a 1370 SAT. They take nearly 40% of direct admits through a petition process  even if they sometimes miss out on theses stats and then they have another 50% of the class after the first year. Those kids didn't meet the Kelley bar coming. Essentially 65% of Kelley kids did not meet the bare minimum bar of essentially a 3.4 unweighted and a 1370 SAT. To put into perspective Emory, Vandy, WashU have nearly 50% of the incoming class with a 1500+ and UCLA has like an 8% acceptance rate with 130,000 applicants. Still all of these places are just semi-targets. Given all of this why would Kelley be a semi-target? 

 

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