Buckeye Bound starts in a large ballroom at The Union and I’d say maybe 800+ Accepted Students were there yesterday. Each accepted student gets a personal agenda for the day, which includes things they selected upon registering…one general welcome session, a two hour breakout into the school or program your child was accepted into (engineering, arts and sciences, business etc), a lunch break (each student gets a Buckeye ID for the day with $11.50 loaded into it to have lunch anywhere on campus or off campus that accepted the BuckID), then two breakout sessions to attend of their choice…from study abroad to getting involved on campus to honors or scholars ingo sessions etc. Students can add a campus tour onto the day as well.
A general visit for prospective students wouldn’t offer the breakout sessions or the in depth 2 hour presentations at the school they’re accepted into. Breaks with coffee and cookies were offered. They really went into showing four year schedule samples, answering questions about the academics, clubs, first year programs and student experiences. The breakout sessions were very good in general as well.
Overall great job, impressively well organized for such a huge school. Hope that helps!
We were there on 2/2 as well. The kick off session was great. The morning session with Engineering was excellent. It included a student panel that answered questions for 30 minutes. After lunch my son had scheduled 2 breakout sessions. One was about undergraduate research opportunities and the other was about the first year experience. Neither of those sessions in my mind were worth 45 minutes each. They easily could’ve been 10 minute videos. We should have used that time to go tour the engineering labs which was another option. All in all it was THEE most organized campus experience for prospective/admitted students that we have experienced compared to Case, Cincinnati, Akron, Dayton, and Xavier. We ended the day in “Short North” for a quick happy hour for mom and dad and then capped the evening off with a men’s hockey game versus Michigan State. It was his first time seeing and hearing the OSU pep band live. Great win over Michigan State 4-2. We spent the next morning touring the north part of campus that wasn’t included in the walking tour. Our goal at each of these schools was to immerse him into the campus experience and hope he envisions himself there. We went into Buckeye Bound with CInci clearly at the top and walked out yesterday as a Buckeye. After a 2.5 hr drive home and a quiet dinner he enrolled. This has been a 1.5 year journey and OSU was not even on the radar 6 months ago. I want to thank all of the parents and students for chatting. He is the first of 3 so we’ll continue to ■■■■■ the site. Best of luck to all in their decisions. O-H
@Meant2B and @CollegeGuy2018 Thank you so much for posting your agendas and congratulations to you both. We will be visiting this Thursday for a long weekend. and doing the program tour. It should give us a great feel for OSU and Columbus in general. Will be catching the Basketball game on Saturday as well Did either one of you have a chance to see any of the dorms or learning communities? Thank you again for posting
They did take us into a a dorm on South Campus. It was Smith Steeb Tower, 9th floor corner room. Girls floor.
Typical double occupancy dorm room, but the corner has two windows. so it seems less confined. They have suites on North Campus and cluster room in the towers on West campus, neither of which we were able to view.
We saw a south campus dorm room on our first visit. We will be at the admitted student visit on March 3 and would really like to see a north campus dorm, particularly one of the quad rooms with the double bunk beds in one room since it seems like a strong possibility for a freshman. Does anyone know if you can request an area of the campus for the tour?
Last year we went to an Admitted Student Day that included a Residence Hall Open House. That gave us an opportunity to see different dorm layouts. I don’t think it is very likely that a freshman will get a quad room actually. I don’t recall many freshmen that I knew of who were given that as a final room. I could be wrong.
I think Taylor may be a possibility and it appears about half are quads. I thought the sophomores and upper classmen may be more likely to get the doubles and triples.