Would everyone please also list their class rank % along with stats?
This is JUST A GUESS, but I’m thinking OSU is wanting to create a student body that’s competitive in nature. Not in the general sense of competitively qualified, rather in the sense that the majority of their students thrive in a competitive situation. They’re very well known for how competitive their football program is & their football players need to be the types of people that bloom, not wilt when the pressure is on & generally thirst for competition.
So I’m thinking that they are seriously weighing class rank or % in the academic student body they admit to reflect what we see in their football program. Solid GPA & ACT/SAT scores alone wouldn’t be an indicator of the applicant’s ‘thirst’ or ‘bloom vs wilt’ nature for competition. Class rank or % however would give a better idea of that intangible factor. So you go to a very competitive school where top 10% or 25% are all superstars - so what? Did you rise to the challenge & thrive in it or were you unable to use that to drive or fuel you to higher accomplishments?
Like I said, this is just a guess. But looking at some of these stats that are being deferred or rejected already, it follows that there’s another element determining their decisions & it looks like rank is what that is. The purpose of using rank then, would indicate they might be looking for natures that rise to the challenges of competition.
I was admitted to the College of Arts and Sciences yesterday- out of state
GPA: 96.8 weighted (I don’t know it out of 4.0)
SAT: 1990 (660 CR, 640 W, 690 M)
Full IB Diploma Candidate, 5 IB classes junior year, 6 IB and 1 AP senior year
School doesn’t do class rank
@osuprof
I agree. So I wonder how they report & consider all the students whose schools don’t rank then. Is it a null data point then that’s just not reported? If so, then it would absolutely advantage students from schools that don’t rank. No personal opinion, just thinking out loud.
Hi everyone I’m a little confused. I submitted my app in october but applied regular decision not early action. I wasn’t expecting to hear back until march but I got deferred yesterday. Do you think I got deferred because I applied RD and my app just happened to end up in the early pile by mistake?
@vivalastool97 do you mean you applied early decision (binding) already so you weren’t allowed to apply early decision (binding) anywhere else? The only way you wouldn’t be able to apply early to another school is if it was binding and you had already applied with a binding early decision at another school… Early action and early decision are very different things. I think you made a mistake, because you should’ve been able to apply to OSU early no matter what since it is not binding.
This is definitely not worth your time to correct. They just need information like this for their own statistical analysis. It will have no impact your acceptance to OSU.
@Chopinspiano ah, I had never heard of SCEA before so it obviously isn’t a very popular choice. It also seems like a very silly choice to me unless that school is your absolute top pick. It would make sense to do early action at multiple schools rather than just one since early action helps your chances and it would boost your chances of getting accepted to at least one school. But whatever floats his boat.
I have heard from classmates that those who applied to Honors/Scholars and Morrill may be getting their decisions later than everyone else. It logically makes sense if that’s the case. My application is still in evaluation and I’ve applied to both.
Applied: 10/30
GPA: 4.4 W
ACT: 33
Major: Pharmaceutical Sciences
@ark3lls I applied to Honors/Scholars and still got my decision the first day acceptances were released, so I don’t think it is that. Maybe the Morrill though. I didn’t apply for that one so I wouldn’t know if that one didn’t delay decisions.
