^the example I mentioned is at case western
@osubucks93 Thank you for that information. As a counselor it seems you are provided information that isn’t necessarily shared with applicants asking the same questions. Thank you for sharing!! My son’s application was completed on 9/25/18, so it’s been a very difficult wait. At least we know there’s an intention to release the final wave on the 31st.
@tbone70 my son is pre-Data Analytics and still waiting. As of Monday and prior to the latest Friday round, OSU had admitted 108 Data Analytics majors. 10 accepted. From our perspective, OSU is treating high school students like numbers which is how I imagine students will be treated at a such a large university.
I’m not sure why everyone is bashing OSU. All state universities are like this - and small, or private universities - too. Yes, at almost every single university or college on the planet, they do look at GPA/ACT/SAT. For the person who said they have a sibling and career services weren’t helpful - they’re in college, and adults. It’s expected that you take matters into your own hands, and not wait around for others to do it for you. Yes, smaller colleges might be more personable, but that’s expected there, as well. Think through things, a bit.
Edit to add: here is their common data set. They don’t look at just numbers - see under important/very important. Yes, GPA/ACT/SAT is looked at highly as is most universities. There’s also other things they look at, too : https://oaa.osu.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/irp/cds/columbus/IRP_CDS_2018-2019_Columbus.pdf
@tbone70 Not all large universities treat students as numbers. Through this process the ones that don’t really stand out. Many do know how to do it right.
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One of my kids is a current OSU student and one who just made the EA deadline and heard back in Dec. admitted. This is one of the largest U’s in the country. With that comes a lot of red tape, but lots of opportunities. You do have to take matters into your own hands for EVERYTHING. I know that waiting is difficult but it does seem like it has become more and more competitive to get in and many more students are applying. We are OOS and when my 1st kid heard in Dec we got scholarship info in early Jan. and his stats were sim to kid 2 who has heard nothing. It is a competitive atmosphere on both sides. They want to let the top prospects know early their admit status and their scholarship status. They know OOS students are applying to other schools and they need to rush their apps, while they have a huge $ advantage with IS students.I know its pins and needles to wait but the truth is, is the difference between hearing in Dec or hearing 4-6 weeks later mean they don’t value you? No. They get around 50k applicants and admit around 1/2. Students then have to weigh all the pros and cons of what school they ultimately want to attend by 5/1. So if you don’t decide until 5/1 does that mean you don’t value the school you pick? No, it means you have to see where everything falls with the # of acceptances you receive, isn’t that the same thing on the other side?
How do i check if i have received a certain scholarship or not?
@collegedadto3 Sorry, I did not make the comment about students being just a number.
Has just about everyone that has not been accepted have an ACT score of 27 or even lower?? It seems like the trend was two weeks ago just about everyone had 30’s and 31’s and yesterdays wave was 28 and 29?
@tbone70 Sorry, my mistake.
@taylor1212 My daughter has 35 ACT and still under evaluation. Whereas my son with 26 ACT was admitted in the first wave. Go figure.
@taylor1212 I have not heard back and I took the SAT but my SAT score would convert to a 28/29 ACT. (I sent my OSU 2 of my SAT scores (my highest single date score and another date so they had my superscore).
I don’t care how big the school is, but I agree that this is probably the worst decision making process I have ever seen. They purposely are giving kids major advantages that were accepted before the RD deadline. Many even knew their scholarship offers before RD deadline. That could save someone $500+ dollars from application and score fees.
I don’t know of one school who sends them out in random cycles with zero rhyme or reason. It is rolling, priority, EA or ED. And all of those besides rolling have ONE date. Yes, I get that that you have until 1/31. We all get that. But to hear that classmates who applied 11/1 being accepted over a month ago while yours is still on hold, sets up a very anxious state. And then the longer wait for merit or scholarships? It also makes me wonder how true their holistic approach is. For acceptance AND scholarships. My child has really good stats. ACT of 33 and GPA of 4.2. Has thankfully been accepted to others. This has been a really big turn off that they are sitting in evaluation each and every time another cycle comes out.
And for kids who aren’t sure and haven’t been accepted elsewhere yet? They are scrambling to get out more apps just in case. I think this fear is “If I haven’t been accepted yet, I probably won’t be”
@NewSR1 then you haven’t heard of Penn State because they do it in a similar way. You can apply the day the Penn State application opens and not hear back until late January. Or you can apply on 10/31 and hear back in a month. What OSU is doing is not unheard of. I appreciate it is frustrating but folks shouldn’t be so quick to assume OSU is the only school that does this. I personally prefer schools that release all EA decisions on the same day. But that being said I would not use their application process as a reason to not attend OSU if the other aspects are a fit.
@adlgel The difference between Penn State and OSU is that Penn State releases decisions nearly every day up until December 24th. OSU’s method of releasing decisions is by far much more frustrating.
There’s a lot of speculation on this board and we’re onky seeing a bird’s eye view of how things go with OSU’s admissions process. That breeds paranoia and a sense of hopelessness, unfortunately. I went over to the U of Texas bc that’s a larger state university than OSU just to see what’s going on there and posters seem to be complaining about a similar process…so OSU isn’t the only university doing things in a seemingly confusing manner.
That said, anyone who hasn’t had a decision handed to them yet has a right to be frustrated and even complain to blow off steam. I don’t think everyone is slamming OSU; I think it just comes with the fact that all were on an equal playing field (I’m not talking about equal stats) in terms of scrambling to get their applications in by November 1st and those waiting for this final decisions release are questioning why they’re in this round and whether it was really worth it to rush the application to make deadline when in the end, they’re not being considered and treated equally (as far as getting ANY decision handed to them earlier). We can complain and be frustrated all we want, but not do anything about it (especially if you/your child still wishes to attend there).
And no, not all people waiting on this board have an ACT of 27 or lower. My daughter has a 28 and is still waiting on word.
@oj2018 but it doesn’t change the fact that one Penn State applicant can find out their decision well after another applicant who applied much later. Personally I don’t know why releasing every day vs releasing in waves changes much about that frustration. Either way you are still waiting and have no way of knowing when your individual decision will be released.
@adlgel Unless you are a student going through this process you clearly don’t understand the frustration. I haven’t heard/seen anyone complain about Penn State’s admissions. There is a difference between decisions being released every day up until Dec 24th (which is the date Penn State said all decisions would be released) vs decisions being released in waves and having to wait till January 31st.
Penn State used to be rolling. They have been transparent about issues in this new process. This is differant than OSU, who has always had this system.
And you can’t deny that if everyone needs to apply by one date, they should all hear on the same date. No kid, no matter what the stats, should have an advantage of hearing in November, a month before RD applications are due and others are hearing January 31st, the day before a handful of colleges with late RD’s are due. Especially when there are deferrals. Many states don’t defer.
We went to OSU for a campus tour and they made no mention of this random rolling out process. It very much seemed it was going to be released the end of January. We didn’t even know until another classmate went up to my child in Nov to ask about their decision. Then we came on here and found out. So I don’t think they are transparent at all about how their process is. Even now, they still say “by January 31st” yet there have been what 4-5 roll out days prior to where they roll out X amount.