S17 application still listed as "evaluation ", he didn’t select a alternate campus on his application. Does anyone know if we can edit the app to select Newark or if makes any difference if he isn’t accepted to main campus?
@PiLove the common app opened in August.
Looks like I am a Fisher direct admit. The criteria is pretty cut and dry. FYI, I’m case anyone else is curious and clueless like me.
Direct Admission Criteria for Autumn 2019:
Only incoming freshman who matriculate at The Ohio State University-Columbus campus in the autumn semester are eligible for direct admission. Students will automatically be offered direct admission if they have:
Composite ACT score of 30 or SAT total score of 1360 or higher is required.
-OR-
Composite ACT score of 26 or SAT total score of 1230 or higher, AND rank in the top 20% of high school class.
https://fisher.osu.edu/undergraduate/admissions/future-students
joining this discussion late, but my application status is still ‘evaluation’ can someone please ease my crippling anxiety like why are some not out yet!?
It says
BS in Business Administration
PREBSBA-PR.
How do I know if this is direct admit or not?
Son has 1480 GPA. Does that that mean he’s not a direct admit?
They just have so many applicants to pilfer through that they chose to release it out in waves once a month. They randomly choose who gets selected for evaluation, so we just got the short straw and have to wait a little longer. It doesn’t mean anything bad though, they would have updated your status to “Deferred” if they looked at it and weren’t sure about you yet.
@bizdock yes a 1480 is a direct admit. It’s all on the website. You’ll get a letter in a week or 2
Every major has its own ACT average. You have to compete with the kids in your major not the college average.
My son had ACT of 31, WGPA of 4.15 , UW of 3.4.
His application status is still evaluating. What does it mean?
When do we learn about financial aid/scholarship info and if we are admitted to the honors college?
@LegendaryJohn I’m wondering the same thing! Does the honors college contact us or something?
I’m honestly so bummed not to have a reply on the portal yet. I’m concerned because I feel that my stats are okay for OSU as follows… but it’s disheartening to have to wait until January. Are we sure that there won’t be another wave prior to that?
OOS
ACT: 33
GPA UW 3.9
CR: n/a
Major: Business
Extracurriculars: 5th place international DECA (additional school, state, and international leadership positions), varsity lacrosse captain, president Rho Kappa, Secretary Best Buddies, and more
9 APs
My daughter’s is still evaluating too. Hang in there everyone who’s still waiting.
I’m wondering whether these are just the apps that need more time to review. In my D’s case, she had a disciplinary issue earlier this year. Clean record up to then. But it required some additional explanation…I.e., just one more thing the AO had to review. So, I’m picturing the AO having maybe 5 minutes per app. They come to one that needs maybe 7 min+, or maybe they have a separate committee it has to go to, and that app just gets set aside and they move on to the next app. Not necessarily a deal breaker, but just something that needs more consideration. Hopefully, it will make it up in the queue before the next round of decisions. Otherwise, I guess they’ll do deferral. Just a theory.
Curious, of those still waiting on EA decision, how many of you have some sort of thing that could require more time to review, vs. the regular straight-forward apps?
Ours is straight forward application. Not sure why it’s taking time.
@LegendaryJohn and @XzarPak My D received a separate e-mail about the Honors college about a week or two after the acceptance letter. Accepted on 11/17 and Honors roughly the week after Thanksgiving. We haven’t heard anything about scholarships.
Good luck!
@equationlover don’t give up! I got in w/ a 1500 SAT and 3.35 UW GPA-- not exactly pristine stats
@collegemom9 I got into pre-eng w/ a track of CSE-- does eng do direct admissions?
Also, when does one find out if they’ve made the honors program, and how long will it take for my mail to arrive?
My son is currently a senior in the business school and my daughter is applying for CSE in engineering. I’m seeing a lot of disappointment from those who haven’t heard yet, and I understand that, but here is a reality check (from a source in summer of 2017):
“The university received 52,425 new first-year student applications for the 2017-18 school year that starts in August, according to a school spokesman, marking a 6.1 percent increase from the 49,407 who applied last year.
In just five years, applications for enrollment have increased by 82.8 percent, from 28,675 in 2012… Ohio State admitted 24,240 of its more than 49,000 applicants last year, and 7,885 eventually enrolled.”
OSU is dealing with over 50,000 applications, so it is going to take time. I am guessing that there is a big leap in EA applications this year because it was required for engineering majors. Can you imagine evaluating 10,000+ applications a month?
If it says “evaluating” (like my daughter’s does) it means they haven’t gotten to it yet. If you applied early action and everything was in by November 1 you still have every chance to be admitted, get accepted to honors, and get the merit scholarships. I would love to know now, but we were promised by the end of January, and that’s what we’ll get.
I would guess that they would evaluate those applying for the eminence scholarship first so they can get those invites out earlier, but I have no way of knowing for sure.
OSU is not being elitest, as someone suggested, but they are obviously going to try to get the best class they can. My daughter has super good stats, grades, leadership, jobs, etc. If she doesn’t get in I’ll be surprised, but not shocked. At least we’ll know by the end of January so she can get serious about her other options.
Good luck to everyone!
@ScrubStudent lol I have no idea. I would suggest checking the website.
@4momOhio I completely agree:)