 Hi guys. So this is breakdown about the Indiana at Bloomington supplement. So before we get into how to write that University of Indiana supplement, let's talk some stats. The IU acceptance rate is 80%. However, the IU acceptance rate for the Kelly's School of Business is about 38. So it's a lot more competitive. The median GPA for fall 2021, which is the last asset we have available is 391. The median SAT is about 13 to 13 90 and the median ACT is between 28 and 32. You definitely want to focus on this essay. You definitely want to kind of showcase as much as possible with regards to your strengths as a candidate. Thank you for watching. Hi, hi, hi. I am Dr. Josie. This is write your acceptance. Thanks for stopping by. I've worked with hundreds and hundreds of students applying at college and beyond in their academic careers. And my focus and expertise is how to help you really shine with your essays. So let's get started with Indiana. So the prompt is describe your academic and career plans in any special interests. For example, undergraduate research, academic interests, leadership opportunities, et cetera, that you are eager to pursue as an undergraduate at Indiana University. Also, if you encountered any unusual circumstances, challenges or obstacles in pursuit of your education, share those experiences and how you overcame them. So this essay is 200 to 400 words and it is like a buffet table. It is a little bit of everything. They want to know academic interests. They want to know career plans. They want to know if you have any special kind of outstanding or challenging circumstances that would be kind of a quote unquote red flag in your application, right? So any kind of challenging circumstances that would have hindered your optimal performance in high school. Let's say at 200 to 400 for the most part, if you are answering all of these kind of buckets for the IU supplement, you tend to go closer to the 400 in my opinion than 200. So let's kind of break down how you would write this essay. So since it is really the only IU supplement and it's a little bit of everything like I say buffet table, it's a little bit about them. So why us a little bit about you academically and then a little bit about special circumstances if you choose to do that. Don't feel obligated to identify everything or to address everything rather in the supplement. They're really just kind of giving you for lack of a better phrase a catch-all type supplement, but even though it is a catch-all supplement or a kind of very, very kind of open-ended, you definitely want to give yourself guardrails and give yourself parameters. So it sounds like a very structured and very intentional essay. So first you're going to address the academic and career plans. Let's say you have an interest in public policy or you have an interest in health care in this academic and career plan section of the essay and maybe you focus the entire essay on just this section because everything else is kind of a move point. You didn't really have any red flags or kind of challenging circumstances that you wanted to share in the essay. So you don't even do that at all. So let's say you want to do health care or you're interested in in medicine. You start with an anecdote about your volunteering in the pediatric win in your local hospital and then you kind of go into a little bit of why us. So then you would kind of go into pursuing a degree in at Indiana University would be of interest because and then you kind of make a case as to why you would want to study there and then you kind of would go in a little bit about what courses, research opportunities, student organizations, so what resources and opportunities within the classroom and beyond the classroom are of interest. So a little bit about why them with kind of your goals academically as a student, what do you want to learn? How do you want to build a network of like-minded students? How do you want to kind of help build and serve the community at Indiana at Bloomington while also gaining the valuable education that you aspire to gain and then what are those career plans? How do you want to leverage that education to your future and what does that look like? They're not going to hold you to anything specifically. What they wanted to see is that you are being intentional with the kind of path that you are laying out for yourself or that you are making a case for. So remember you are looking for courses, maybe a student organization, a community service, research opportunity, you're looking for these kind of why us elements and you're kind of weaving that into academic and career aspirations. Another example of your applying to the Kelly School of Business, maybe you start the essay with a mini story about kind of your pre-college program if you did a business program or your entrepreneurship, your small business in high school that you kind of started from your bedroom or how you buy bread on Tuesdays. This is super random because I've seen it and it works amazingly how you buy bread on Tuesdays from a competing grocery store because you realize that that's when they mark down prices in that store. And so then you would kind of link that to how you aspire to look at supply chain kind of market demand principles at IU. And so kind of start with an anecdote that shares something creatively that connects academically or career-wise for you and then kind of connect that to what you would start to study at Indiana. So next step is assessing if you do have any extenuating circumstances that you want to share in your essay. If you do, I would kind of make that its own paragraph, like its own section. Don't feel like I'm a big proponent of transitional topic sentences. So making sure that your one paragraph flows into the next paragraph flows into the next. So it sounds like a cohesive and complete thought versus like disparate short answers. However, it's been my experience working with students on this essay many years now. They've had the supplement a while that this essay in particular like this supplement in particular, it's very challenging to do so. So you want to think about just figuring out what you want to say first. If you do have extenuating circumstances, think about one, are they going to get this information somewhere else? You don't want to kind of hit them over the head with too much information about the same thing. Two, what is your relationship to this difficulty? Is it an obstacle that you've overcome? Then maybe you're spinning it. Then I would say you're spinning it to a positive space because you've gained wisdom and distance from this experience or this obstacle. And that's who you're ending on a very positive and moment of strength. So think about your relationship to this extenuating circumstance. If it is an ongoing issue, how are you managing it? How are you successfully managing it as a student? Because remember, ultimately you are applying to become part of their community. And so what you're saying is that you are not only academically fit to be part of their intellectual community, but that you are ready to leave home and go study and be on your own and be independent. And so when you are sharing extenuating circumstances, of course, share your truth, be honest, but also make sure that how you are sharing it is coming from a space of wisdom and growth and self-reflection. So notice I haven't really shared any specific circumstances because all of this tends to be unique to students. If you have a specific kind of challenging circumstance extenuating circumstance that you are thinking of sharing, but I'm not sure and you want kind of some guidance, comment below. I'm happy to kind of talk through how I would share any details or specifics to your case individually. So beyond this one essay, IU has a great extensive, amazing, very, very generous scholarships page. So I know not everyone will apply to scholarships, although I am a strong component that you should and they have said, I mean, one of my favorite university scholarship pages ever. So I wanted to share that with you guys here because they do have a number of scholarships with a number of deadlines and you should kind of check them out in case there are a few or a couple or one that may be interesting to you and could be kind of, you know, helping you offset cost if you do decide to attend Indiana. So this is an extensive scholarship webpage. You could filter by state, so in-state and out-of-state opportunities and so many students have recycled parts of their other essays through these scholarships when I'm working with students individually that I know that it lends itself to a user-friendly experience most of the time or sometimes. So quick caveat, the selective design is November 1st. By the time my students that are applying to regular decisions see this video, you're going to be past that deadline. So this would be for next cycle students for that specific deadline, but there are others there that would work for you too. That's elective scholarship essay prompt reads. Please research and write an original essay on the topic that reflects your own intellectual interests and impacts the community around you. This essay should demonstrate your analytical writing abilities. Your topic should be supported with persuasive and concrete evidence and you should cite all resources. We have provided a few suggestions. It is about 600 to 1,000 works. I've had students write about a research project that they were doing in their kind of AP research courses. I've had students write about a kind of a service learning project that they did in a local pediatric hospital. One of my students did their research for a course on food insecurity and food deserts and then they built they used part of that research and writing that they had and built out this essay specifically make basically kind of using the research they had already done and building out what they wanted to do with that research and knowledge now and how they were going to impact their community. And so you don't have to start from scratch. You are already working very, very busy bees. So you want to think about what you have already done whether it's for another supplement for another school or for a research project for a class and think about kind of how you can adapt and build upon kind of ideas and work you've our scholarship you already have for yourself. There may be sometimes they sneak in the activities essay. So I do have a couple of videos and I'll link them above on how to write the activities essay and you want to think about in a way it's similar to the community essay from Michigan which I released a video just prior to this one updated version on that one so you may want to check that one out but I have a couple of other activities ones as well so that you can share kind of your role in the activity how you impact others how you make a difference and kind of lesson learned. I hope this was helpful and if you are applying to Indiana and you want kind of feedback for me comment below I am still taking a couple of students so if you want to kind of learn more about how I work with students comment below and I can share my contact information email and we go from there. Thanks for watching. Take care. Bye.