<p>Rank the Big Ten schools from most prestige and hardest to get into to easiest and bad.</p>
<p>Indiana
Illinois
Purdue
Penn State
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Minnesota</p>
<p>No Big 10 school is bad. The range would be excellent to very good.</p>
<p>Prestige (US News & World Report):</p>
<ol>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>U Michigan</li>
<li>U Wisconsin</li>
<li>UIUC</li>
<li>Penn St. </li>
<li>Ohio St.</li>
<li>Purdue</li>
<li>U Iowa</li>
<li>Michigan St.</li>
<li>U Minnesota</li>
</ol>
<p>Acceptance difficulty (from hardest to easiest) is about the same.</p>
<p>I think Minnesota is improving though.</p>
<p>If you think ohio state is very good then you have never been there.</p>
<p>OSU offers very good programs in most areas. Whether or not the students take advantage is their problem.</p>
<p>batman, you forgot about Indiana.</p>
<p>You know for all the heat the SEC (usually rightfully) gets about being a conference of not-the-brightest schools, at least they know how to count.</p>
<p>This is how I would rank the Big Eleven (my bad...Ten)</p>
<ol>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Indiana </li>
<li>Purdue</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>Michigan St. </li>
<li>Penn St.</li>
<li>Iowa</li>
<li>Ohio St.</li>
</ol>
<p>If OSU offers "very good" programs in a few areas, it means many are not "very good." And even the top programs (business and engineering, for example), aren't very good when put into a national context, they are simply "good." Which means the average is not "very good" its "average" at best. Also its one of the easiest state schools to get into in the country AND its student stats are average, so its student body (even incorporating honors scholarship kids) is average at best. </p>
<p>Its an average school. If OSU is considered very good, then should 75% of the colleges in the US.</p>
<p>I said vg programs in most areas.<br>
The admissions to OSU have been upgraded and it is now fairly competitive. You better go look at the actual average SAT and ACT to know what average is. It is not the 1400-30 you see here a lot.
According to a study of all the major state and private universities OSU is in the top 15 of state U's.</p>
<p><a href="http://thecenter.ufl.edu/research2004.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://thecenter.ufl.edu/research2004.pdf</a></p>
<p>Freshmen Academic Profile
Average SAT: 1185
SAT - Verbal Range (25-75%): 520-630
SAT - Math Range (25-75%): 550-660
TPR Projected Range SAT Writing: 570-650
Average Verbal SAT: 581
Average Math SAT: 604
ACT Composite Range (25-75%): 23-28
Average ACT: 26
Students in top 10% of HS class: 34%
Students in top 50% of HS class: 96%
Students from Public School: 88</p>
<p>Indiana above PSU????
shouldnt Penn State be moved up on that list?(fee)</p>
<p>Anyways some schools are better than others in different areas.....it matters what you want. all schools in the Big ten do seem to be great</p>
<p>Why is it called big ten? which was added last?</p>
<p>slipper why are you hating on OSU? It actually has some really good programs- I know your perspective because I live less than 20 minutes away from OSU, but OSU has really made some big jumps as of late. No, it's not Michigan, but it can stand up in its own right.</p>
<p>I am not a hater, I know so many people there...but it isn't a very good school. The campus is the pits, the students aren't that smart, the placement isn't that good (look at the top ten of any professional school, you'll only see a couple OSU kids in each school's class). It still has automatic admission...all you have to do is go to OSU-Newark which has a 100% accept rate for the academically eligible and with a passing GPA you get an automatic transfer to OSU. </p>
<p>I am not a hater, Barrons just likes to overrate state schools. Sure OSU is better than Libery University, but "very good" is a huge stretch.</p>
<p>Go Indiana!</p>
<p>BTW - it should be noted that Indiana has more than double the applicants this year. Setting record applicant totals. Meaning standards will be going up, acceptance rates going down, etc.</p>
<p>"Acceptance difficulty (from hardest to easiest) is about the same."</p>
<p>this is why people with no knowledge like u should not be giving advices, i feel insulted as well as protest on behalf of all the michigan and northwestern students that anyone would think Northwestern/Michigan is the same in terms of admissions as Ohio State/Iowa.</p>
<p>"Why is it called big ten? which was added last?"</p>
<p>Penn State</p>
<p>I think I have some of the same complains about OSU. OSU, like Indiana is based strictly on Rank and ACT/SAT scores for admissions. What you get is a group of kids who don't even care about college at all. Also the other thing I dislike about OSU is the campus. It was by far the worst one I've seen. Nothing against the town of columbus, I like it in all, but the campus, well was there a campus? Just didn't have that campus feel.</p>
<p>kinglin - Did you find out about your status yet? Is there good news?</p>
<p>Northwestern is the best on this list by far.</p>
<p>Michigan is up there too, bball</p>