IU Indianapolis expands seamless admissions initiative INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Getting into college for thousands of high school seniors across central Indiana may now be as simple as keeping their grades up. IU Indianapolis has expanded its seamless admissions initiative to 31 high schools. The goal of the program is to remove college access barriers for high school seniors. Students with a minimum 3.0 GPA are eligible for an automatic admission to IU Indy, with no application fee or transcripts required at the time of admission. “We’ve simplified the application. This is a shortened application only asking those key questions of students that we need to know in able to admit them into the university. In the partnership, we have a sharing agreement where the high school is sending the transcript on behalf of the student, so we’ve simplified that part of the process as well,” said Jordan Stevenson, vice chancellor for enrollment management at IU Indianapolis. IU Indianapolis student Kevin Lopez Fuentez, who graduated from Arsenal Technical High School, says the seamless admissions program made college a reality. “It made the process so much easier. At first I thought it was too good to be true, but it was seamless as the name goes,” he said. With the expansion of an additional 31 schools in the initiative, nearly 3,500 students in central Indiana now qualify for automatic admission for Fall 2026. Some of the high schools include North Central, Ben Davis, Warren Central, Lawrence Central and Lawrence North, Pike, Decatur and Perry Meridian. “We are visiting the schools more often, we’re offering more opportunities from them to visit us and we’re putting support in student success resources behind their students to increase the college going rate,” Stevenson said. Stevenson says early data shows the program is already making a difference. The initiative started in 2023 with four IPS schools. Since then, applications increased by 38 percent and admissions rose by 55 percent. “We want to grow this program all across the state. We’re in talks with folks in Warsaw, in Fort Wayne, and South Bend and also with folks down in Evansville,” said Stevenson. Lopez Fuentez says he applied to other schools, but the admissions process made it an easy decision. “The simpleness that comes with it, and the way it takes the weight off your shoulder, and because the school is a good school, there’s multiple programs to choose from and multiple schools within, to me, it was the best option,” he said. ...read more read less