<p>I don’t want to seem as if I’m tooting my own horn but this incident just really baffled me. As I was eating lunch today and “Unknown” number called me. I picked up to hear the voice of an undergraduate student working within the admissions office for the Ohio State University. Quite frankly, I don’t know what this means since they’ve already reached out to me mail and e-mails, but I think calling me was a bit much. I don’t know if this is the typical “everyone gets it” treatment or is there something more? Maybe I’ve just stumbled upon Ohio’s new recruiting method. Any thoughts or past experiences?</p>
<p>I received a phone call from Ohio State yesterday as well. Carnegie Mellon made a similar call after I attended one of their off-campus information sessions. I’m guessing this type of thing probably happens if you demonstrated interest in some way in the school and/or fit in a certain range of test scores, GPA, etc.</p>
<p>They call a lot of people . I’ve gotten from university of Minnesota and I think deleware </p>
<p>Don’t give colleges your phone number (before applying) unless you want them to call you?</p>
<p>My son received a call from Ohio State a while back after they received his ACT scores.</p>
<p>This is something that, in our experience with several children, is quite common, with OSU, All throughout the application process and even after acceptance, we received calls from students, administration, and even professors wanting to know if we had any questions or concerns. I think that they feel that this “above and beyond” approach sets them apart from many other schools–and I must say, that it did. We very, very rarely received calls from other schools–and after my children were accepted at many of them, it still was very difficult to get ahold of people to ask specific questions–it was as if they sent a letter of acceptance, asked for their deposit, and you never heard from them again until orientation. I always thought that this was very surprising–here OSU is the biggest school in the Country, and yet, again and again, we were treated as if we were the only ones there. Several times, over the years, they really went out of their way to help us with different problems or concerns even though they didn’t have to. I always tell people, when they’re trying to make a decision about where to go, to see how they’re treated after being accepted–that will give them a clue to how they’ll be treated in the next four years.</p>
<p>The communication from OSU has been unbelievable. Since December, not a week goes by without a call, letter, packet, email, to parents and student. And when there was a uncharacteristic OSU glitch at the orientation regarding my daughter, she received a number of OSU calls and emails later with profuse apologies. </p>
<p>This is very common actually and is one way OSU recruits and answers prospective students questions. It is one of the many “on campus” jobs that current OSU students can apply for. </p>