Gonna CRAZY! UIUC vs PSU vs UTA vs Drexel vs OSU! HELP!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Ohio State University
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<p>Since May 1st is coming and I haven’t got my final decision, I turn to CC for help~PLZ!
PLZ help me to select the best-fit school!</p>

<p>I wanna know more about these schools from people who are studying in/graduadated from these schools, only then I can fully know the pros and cons of them, instead of browsing the schools’ pages, u know, only good things flourish.</p>

<p>I picked up these schools after full consideration:</p>

<p>---->University of Illinois at Urbarna-Champaign
---->Penn State University
---->University of Texas at Austin
---->Ohio State University ($6600 Scholarship + Honor Program)
---->Drexel University ($20000 Scholarship)</p>

<p>Waitlist:
---->Washington University in St.Louis (Accept the WL or not??)
---->University of Michigan ( I like it except the weather, terrible)</p>

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<p>And below come with some of my requirements of schools (huh…)</p>

<li><p>FAMOUS
I’m an international student. well.
So I want my school to be very famous, at least nationwide.</p></li>
<li><p>LOCATION
big city will be the best choice, but it doesn’t matter if the surroundings are convenient, well-accommodated, entertaining etc.
I come from a city with millions of people. :)</p></li>
<li><p>MAJOR
I love business-related majors, such as Finance, Actuarial Science, management
and I am also interested in social sciences and engineering.
So my school had better be well-rounded. ( and I can LEARN in its business school besides its fame)</p></li>
<li><p>CLASS
I hate classes with hundreds of people, or even thousands of people.
and I hate classes which usually the TAs teach instead of professors.</p></li>
<li><p>TRANSFER
Weird/Hard Transfer Policy? I hope not, I plan to transfer to California/Boston after my freshman year. So I expect the freshman year won’t be EXTREMELY hard for me to get a satisfying GPA</p></li>
<li><p>SCHOOL
Racial Discrimination?
Unhelpful Faculty?
Unfriendly Student?
lol…nobody likes it</p></li>
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<p>I like UIUC for it being famous nationwide esp the engineering, but its location and business quality are what matters ( hundreds of people crowd in one class, TA </p>

<p>I like PSU for my uncle, who lives in Pennsylvania right now, strongly recommends it to me, but I hear that it is a party school…student unfriendly and likes drinking, not so good for study?)</p>

<p>I like UTA the most for its great location (intern opportunities? ) and its great business school ( I am not admitted to the business honor program, sigh, could I apply for it after enrollment?) , but discrimination…well</p>

<p>I like OSU, the scholarship and the honor program</p>

<p>I like Drexel, mainly for the scholarship ( does Drexel have the policy that share credits with Upenn?)</p>

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<p>To choose a school is pretty hard.
Both have their own pros and cons. and I don’t know too much about schools except what they have offered in their web pages. So I really really needs your help.</p>

<p>THANKS A LOT!!!</p>

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<p>I know my Questions are little bit too much.
Anything you can provide is welcome!!!
Thanks again!!!</p>

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<p>Here’s the deal, overall ohio state is probably the best academic school you got into. I don’t know what program you are planning on studying but overall it is probably the best. Texas has a better business school and illinois is known for engineering. But if you want the most well rounded school like you say Ohio state is probably the place. As far as being in a big city you know illinois and penn state are not in big cities. I’ve never been to austin so I can’t comment but both columbus and philly are filled with things to do. As far as class sizes you are going to have some huge classes at all of these schools although drexel maybe not as much as the other four. And the only complaints I ever hear are that penn state and illinois are in the middle of nowhere so there is nothing to do but drink on campus. And I hear sometimes that drexel is in a dumpy part of philly and philly itself is a little dumpy but you should visit yourself. If I were you I would wait out my waitlists with michigan and washu. Washu is far better than any other school you got into and Michigan has one of the best business schools in the country.</p>

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<p>Thanks Patriot1208
I am invited to the honor program so this is really attractive.
and the 30000/yr is pretty affordable for my family</p>

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<p>I would have to disagree with patriot in that OSU is better academically than all of the schools you got into. Although rankings aren’t everything, Texas and UIUC are both consistently ranked higher in almost all the overall college rankings i have seen. Texas and UIUC are also harder to get into, which says a something about thier selectivity and thus their academic reputation. Although they may be close, I would say that both UIUC and UT have OSU beat in that respect. PSU is comparable to OSU though, and as for Drexel I have no idea. As for U of M, don’t expect much because they don’t tend to accept many people off the waitlists if any at all, but if u do get in, i highly recommend it. As for class sizes, most of the colleges u applied to will have large class sizes, but being the biggest university in the country, OSU tends to be a bit crowded or so i hear</p>

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<p>Well, OSU is definitely on its way up in terms of selectivity. The average ACT scores for the present freshman class is 25-30, I think. And since he was invited to be in the honors program, many of the classes that would otherwise be huge will be capped at 25 students max. The honors program is actually really nice here and it (I speak from experience). And, of course, since there’s so many students on the campus, there’s also a significant number of international students, so discrimination isn’t a problem.</p>