<p>I had a post before with probably half of this stuff for OS but forgot a lot…so maybe this could give a better view as to how I fall as far as admission stats go? :</p>
<p>*GPA: 4.19 weighted (going to rise)
3.82 unweighted (same)
*Rank: 31/317
*SAT: (they’re not fair)…writing 610, crit reading 520, math 550.
*ACT: Taking it June 10th.
*9th grade i took almost all honors (I have 2 B’s on my transcript and 1 b+), 10th grade i took 2 honors but got A’s across the board, this year (11) i took 1 ap and 4 honors and have all A’s. Next year, I am taking 4 AP’s (2 AP and 2 ap weighted honors) and 1 actual honors class.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars/interesting facts:
*People to people student ambassador program (summer of 2002)
*GLSEN board member (helps teach others about diversity)
*junior mendelssohn choir (2 years i a row, and soon to be next year!)
*voice lessons (past 2 years and when i was 8 and 9)
*piano lessons (11 1/2 years)
*cantoring for my rabbi for high holidays
*jazz choir (including a performance at PNC park, Pittsburgh’s baseball stadium–soon to be 2 years)
*chamber choir (most elite choir in high school-soon to be 4 years)
*County chorus
*Showchoir in middle school (7th/8th grade)
*District chorus
*Played piano for high school orchestra in 9th grade
*3 piano competitions in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade
*Classical Singer competition
*Music Theory class over the summer (coming)
*National Honors Society
*Played piano/sung in numerous nursing homes for the past several years.
(I might be writing for the local “free” newspaper to get experienced w/writing).
*6 months of Saxophone (5th grade!)
*1.5 years of guitar in 8th/9th grade
*Anime Club in 9th grade
There are about 3 or 4 I forgot about by the way ^_^</p>
<p>Don't worry about it. I'd say you're in. My friend got in to the engineering program with lower SAT scores, multiple Ds, and a failure in spanish that is preventing him from graduating on time. He only took one AP test--English Language--and got a 3 on it. OSU is cake for admissions. If you are merely adequate (a qualification you exceed), you can get admission to main campus.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say the admissions are "cake." They definitely were a few years ago, but each year it becomes more and more competitive. I go to a highly competitive private school, and we all thought that merely graduating from my school meant you were in to Ohio State. However, one of my friends who took AP Biology (had at least a C the whole time) and never failed a class, only got waitlisted at OSU and never got accepted in the end.</p>
<p>So, while I think you have a fine chance at admission and shouldn't worry, it is no longer correct to act like any slacker can get into OSU no problem.</p>
<p>Very good point VelaenOscuridad, while I do see it has been a trend in the past where alot of people could get in, I do see and hear many alumni talking about how much harder it is to get in every year and the great strides that Ohio State is making in admissions. OSU just keeps on shooting up in the rankings, and it is getting tougher to get in, and that, among other things is one of the factors that drew me to OSU. They are always striving to better themselves.</p>
<p>Yeah, by the time we graduate, OSU will be up there with the Ivy Leagues! It is exciting to see how motivated the faculty and staff are to improve every aspect of the school.</p>
<p>well whatever everyone says... the transfer admission process tells you how comp. it is.
they say if you get a 2.0 , you are guaranteed an admission in the univ.
How competitive is a 2.0??????
I also know someone who got admitted to OSU with an SAT 1040/1600
its very easy to get in...
I'd say try for better schools
OSU isnt that great</p>
<p>woah there buddy (osu ib).... Maybe he has taken others into account, and he would love to attend OSU?<br>
OSU isn't that great? Well judging from your other posts, you seem like you are frustrated somehow with the school?
.... Regardless, it may be just a personal preference for him.</p>
<p>senor matador
I strongly beleive , that someone who wants to study shouldnt be going to OSU, it's a nice school to be a part of.. but not too good when it comes to opportunities.. its hard to make a place for yourself amongst 55000 people.. everything you want is already taken up by someone else.. I would really encourage people to go to smaller schools if they dont have intentions of going to grad school</p>
<p>osu ib once again you are really disatisfied with osu.. we know that... but then again you want to be an investment banker.... that pretty much says it all right there....</p>
<p>As a proud OSU alumnus, I give you permission to ignore osu-ib's posts which are both biased and inaccurate. Ohio State is not an ideal university for many students for a variety of reasons. But for those who choose to attend let me assure you that you will receive a top notch education if you take advantage of the opportunities "The Big Farm" offers.</p>
<p>I received my undergraduate degree in engineering from Ohio State and was easily as well prepared as any of my peers when I began grad school at Cornell University.</p>
<p>And for those of you who are concerned about OSU's size, and it is huge, let me assure you that a student need not be intimidated. Because it is divided up into so many colleges(18) and has so many majors(170), the academic environment you find yourself studying in can be downright intimate in some departments. My graduating class in civil engineering totalled less than 50 students and today it is about 80 students, the size of some LAC departments. Others, to be sure, are quite larger.</p>
<p>If you choose not to study as OSU-ib suggests, let me assure you that you will not succeed academically based on first hand experience. It was sobering to return from fall and winter breaks freshman year and find a number of empty beds on my dorm floor. And with those big intro lecture classes, you will not have a professor particularly concerned about your lack of effort. However if you have the academic acuity and work hard, you will have almost unlimited opportunity to succeed, perhaps even beyond your expectations.</p>
<p>Well its becuase you are horribly biased osu_ib, although I understand originaloog also is to, but the blatant stab that you made just really did not do anything for your credibility. And as well you have presented yourself on these boards as what is known as a "prestige whore" (not my term), and are categorized as such. The whole investment banker shindig just reeks of it. Sorry that you did not get a full OSU experience. If you want something so badly, you better be willing to do anything for it, not just give up because someone else is already in that position, strive for it. As a business student I would think you would understand that just because the campus has 50,000, does not mean you can carve out your own niche and work it until the results tip into your favor. You have to be competitive.<br>
Just let this one sink please... the last post before you was almost a month ago...</p>
<p>It was perhaps an exaggeration, but with the huge improvements OSU has made in just the past decade...I mean, when my parents were in college, OSU was on par with most CCs, and now it's actually ranked, so in four years, who knows?</p>
<p>I was reading a post this AM about linguistics programs, and I saw that OSU's dept is highly reputed. I corroborated this on the school website. Even as an out-of-state student, this makes me very attracted to OSU. Anybody here had an experience w/ the linguistics and/or language departments @ OSU?</p>
<p>Yes, I did feel the need to register to ask this question.</p>
<p>osu_ib, as an international perhaps you do not understand the concept of literary license with a dose of humor tossed in.</p>
<p>Senormat, if you carefully read my first paragraph I believe that you will conclude that my bias is minimal.</p>
<p>And VOd, having attended OSU in the late 60's, I can assure you that the education a student could receive at OSU was on a par with any college. I am living proof because, as a grad student at Cornell I quickly realized that my OSU education allowed me to easily compete with students from far more selective universities.</p>
<p>OSU, like hundreds of other colleges, offer a seemingly unlimitless array of opportunities to allow their undergraduate students to achieve great things which will make them attractive to the top employers. However it takes a lot more time, iniative, and desire to excel that most students are willing to do. </p>
<p>It is a lot easier to just post a whinney post denigrating a wonderful university. It is those types who are justly ignored by the Goldman Sachs of the business world.</p>
<p>I'm new here, but I have a couple of things to say. I am a National Merit Scholar with a 4.2 gpa, 2270 SAT, all the extra curriculars, etc. I could have gone to a pretty "prestigious college" but I picked good old OSU instead. Why? Because: I don't see the point in spending $30,000 a year and being in debt for the rest of my life when I could instead be in an elite program that is ranked fifth in the country (pharmacy) and receive a top-notch education without wasting $20,000 to buy "prestige". Plus, our football team is #1!</p>
<p>Sloopy - thank you! I am the same way, though I didn't want to subject myself to attacks by other posters by declaring my stats. I'm also a National Merit Scholar, and although it's hard to compare GPAs and test scores between people, I too had more "prestigious" school choices. But OSU has so many more opportunities, variety of classes, and things to do than the more selective schools. A better value, plus I get to meet people who have better things to do than crunch numbers to make sure they're #1 in their class.</p>