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

 

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

 

Why don’t you look at the overall rankings since you don’t need to go to a business school to compete for a job in banking?

It is ranked #72, and the university has as an acceptance rate of 85%. In other words, you have to try hard to NOT get in here.

Joke of a school with the dumbest student body I’ve come across.

 

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.

 

Actually, IU Kelley is ranked higher than Georgetown's McDonalds business school (or whatever its called). This further bolsters my argument as to why IU Kelley is a semi-target.

 

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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