<p>I applied to OSU on January and my first semester senior year grades were sent shortly after. I haven’t yet found out my admissions decision, so I am assuming my first semester grades will come into play. OSU is one of my top choices, and my GPA is a little low, but I got straight A’s first semester. How much should this help? I need to get in! Please tell me it helps!</p>
<p>I don’t know how much it will help because you didn’t say your gpa act and class rank? And have you taken ap or honors? And what major did you apply to?</p>
<p>ecremin, as Ohiostategirl said, it’s hard to give you input without more information. </p>
<p>I can share that my S is a current freshman at Ohio State (we are OOS) and he didn’t get a reply for 15 weeks. In December of the year he applied he sent his OSU admissions counselor an email expressing his desire to attend OSU and offering to send his first semester grades (which were straight A’s in multiple AP and Honors classes at that point). The counselor strongly encouraged my son to have his HS send the grades ASAP, which he did. He was accepted a few weeks later. We are convinced those grades (or maybe his expressing how much he wanted to attend?) made a difference, though we may never know for sure. It can’t hurt! It is especially helpful if you are taking a challenging set of courses as a senior I think. Best of luck to you!!</p>
<p>Hi I’m sorry I didn’t give much information
I am OOS with a 3.27 gpa and a 28 ACT
My school doesn’t do class ranking and I have taken multiple honors and AP
I also applied to be an entomology major
Also, I have sent the rep a few E-mails expressing my desires to go to OSU and I let her know that I was sending my first semester grades. Hopefully I have done enough!</p>
<p>Are first semester grades REQUIRED to be sent? DS is awaiting a decision…doubt submission will sway them in one direction or another but want to make sure we’ve submitted everything required. Thanks!</p>
<p>I never found anything about OSU requiring a midyear report - they haven’t sent a reminder email like other schools; however, our GC said that they upload the midyear report for all students that used the common app. It had to be done for other schools anyway. Not sure if OSU will download it though.</p>