<p>Actually, OSU Newark does have a 100% accept rate and auto-transfers into the main program. From my high school 100% of the kids got into OSU-Columbus, but I know the overall rate usually hovers around 80%. Also the business program is something like 18 for undergrad, maybe top 25-50 for MBA depending on what ranking you look at.</p>
<p>Its an okay school, but no different than any other state school like Penn State, Iowa, etc.</p>
<p>point is newark is not the same, it's a regional campus. I was glad because it's usually not included. I am glad it was included for once. It's a good school in my eyes, a very solid education for an ohioan</p>
<p>I haven't met anyone's parents who graduated from OSU in Silicon Valley - arguably one of the toughest and most competitive places in our country and our world. If OSU actually did provide a "very solid education," then there'd be thousands of OSU graduates here; but that's not the case. </p>
<p>I'm not trying to be mean, but I'm just saying that you can't use powerful words like "a solid educatiol" for a school who's only fame comes from its football team. :)</p>
<p>It is ranked quite well in more than a few areas. Maybe you should do a little research. I'm not saying it's michigan, or uva, or unc. I'm saying it's like penn state, or iowa, or indiana. Very solid. Maybe as an elitist you think only bad students attend these schools, but you're wrong</p>
<p>Ohio State is ranked decently in every area, e.g. for undergrad: #28 in Engineering, #11 in Agricultural Engineering, #13 in Materials, #14 in Industrial Engineering, #18 in Aero/Astro Engineering, #19 in Mechanical Engineering, #21 in Chemical Engineering, and for grad: #15 in Political Science, #17 Education, #19 Business, #21 Sociology, #22 Chemistry, #24 Physics, #24 Psychology, #29 Economics, #32 Math, #34 English, #35 Computer Science, #38 Medicine, #39 Applied Math, and #54 Biology.</p>
<p>Its exactly as celebrian said, a school on par with Penn State, Indiana, Iowa, Florida State, etc. A moderately good school with a decent engineering department.</p>
<p>I'm gonna have to represent KU here.</p>
<p>The admissions isn't as competitive as some of the other schools mentioned here (except maybe some of the engineering schools), but don't let that fool you. </p>
<p>Any low-population square state will be less selective because it doesn't have to deal with a mob of in-state appliacts like bigger states. All the heavy hitters (Michigan, Texas, Virgina, Cali, and co) got that way because there are 8 billion people in the state.</p>
<p>I'm really impressed with every KU professor I've met. The facilities are great (new rec center is soo nice), the social life is great, and the campus is beautiful. Besides all that, there is no finer place to live than Lawrence. Guarantee.</p>
<p>End plug.</p>
<p>Oh, and Celebrian, I'm so with you.</p>
<p>KU is a pretty good school overall, and i've heard some good things about their engineering (my friend's dad is a graduate from KU engineering). But i've also heard that KU will teach you what you need to know, but K-state will teach you how to actually work once you get a job. so i opted for k-state engineering when it came between the two. however, I'm desperate to get out of kansas, so i'm probably going to purdue.</p>
<p>Overland Park, eh?</p>
<p>I haven't looked TOO much into engineering, but a friend of mine who's an electrical engineering major at KU told me that KU is more prestegious/selective. It seems like K-State is building its program, so it could be very good in the next few years. I'm just not sure I could ever live in Manhattan.</p>
<p>Purdue is quite good.</p>
<p>The Midwest has many awesome schools.</p>
<p>TOP 5 LACs:
Carleton College
Grinnell College
Gustavus Adolfus College
Macalester College
Oberlin College</p>
<p>TOP 5 PRIVATE RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES:
Carnegie Mellon University (Call me crazy, but I consider Pittsburgh to be a midwestern city)
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
University of Notre Dame
Washington University</p>
<p>TOP 5 PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES:
Indiana University-Bloomington
Pennsylvania State University
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>Alexandre,</p>
<p>How dare you list MICHIGAN alphabetically, and publics last?</p>
<p>I'm beginning to doubt your sincerity Msr. Moderator ;)</p>
<p>Alexandre,
I generally respect your opinions on this board, however, to place IU on this list before Purdue is misinformed.</p>
<p>IU has a much broader array of good programs than Purdue which is essentially a specialty school for engineering and business.</p>
<p>Bigger Universities: Northwestern, U Chicago, WashU, Notre Dame, and the rest of the Big Ten schools.</p>
<p>Liberal Arts: Carleton, Oberlin, Kenyon, Grinnell</p>
<p>It's interesting Alexandre put Gustavus Adolphus on there. It's one college I personally haven't even heard of (and I focused my search on midwestern liberal arts schools). I think the reason I haven't heard of it is because it is 75% Minn residents (oh and it seems to be heavily religiously affiliated). </p>
<p>It's even more interesting Alexandre put it in the top 5. Mind explaining?</p>
<p>what do you think of Xavier University (in cincinnati OH) ?</p>
<p>Purdue and IU both serve different purposes. Purdue is the hard sciences, IU is soft. Their main overlap is business. Purdue largest programs are engineering and the sciences, IU is more of an education, communications, and law enforcement institution.</p>
<p>I'd put St. Olaf ahead of Gustavus in Alexandre's ranking. It's a terrific school and one of the few larger (3,000) liberal arts colleges out there. Excellent for sciences, music, art, study abroad, languages, among other things. It is affiliated with the Lutheran Church but students are reported to be pretty easy going.</p>
<p>Getting into Ohio State University is a joke. Ohio is a highly populated state with several large urban areas yet cannot produce a top 50 public university. OSU Honors isn't bad, the stats are impressive, but we had 3.2's apply and get in (to the university)</p>
<p>Not ranking LACs</p>
<ol>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>U Chicago</li>
<li>WashU</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>CWRU</li>
<li>UIUC</li>
</ol>
<p>I lived in OH for some time, so in response to the above post about how we don't care if it is 4th tier or whatever and how we stick to tradition.</p>
<p>That's nice and romantic and all, but... it's a pretty good sign of what Ohio is like. Subpar. Ohio has this interesting mindset where going to OSU is fine because of football. Football dominates the academics. It's not elitist to say that. It's the truth. CWRU is not even understood around OH, Oberlin and Kenyon as well. While I left Ohio in the 11th grade, Miami was the "premier" Ohio university to a lot of people with Ohio University not far behind. On a national level this is a joke. It shows a lot about how Ohioans view academics.</p>
<p>You're right, however. you can get an excellent education at OSU. If you try hard and get a high GPA you'll do well anywhere. The honors college is pretty cool.</p>