<p>My question is in regards to the Honors Program at OSU. As of right now I am a freshman at Arizona State University and was looking to transfer to another school. The only reason I would stay at ASU is because of the Barrett Honors College which I recently was accepted to, and now my decision about transferring is questionable. I’ve applied and have been accepted to OSU for the Fall Semster of 2007, and I am wondering how hard it would be to transfer into the Honors Program after one semester. As of right now I have a 3.98 GPA at ASU but I believe my GPA would be a 3.7 at OSU (no +/- for transfer grades.) Thanks in advance for your advice.</p>
<p>Our experience with OSU has been quite the opposite. The honors program offered a range of merit awards (we didn't qualify for the biggies though). Outside of Honors though, we found OSU to be very generous in terms of merit aid, much more so than other schools we considered. But I know that everyone's experience is a bit different depending upon their situation.</p>
<p>We have been totally impressed with the Honors/Scholars Program. We received at least 5 phone calls from students throughout the admissions process. We visited 3 times and were astounded by the attention to detail and the organization/planning. </p>
<p>Just this week we received her orientation registration brochure. Her name/major/college division are all contained within the welcome letter inside the front cover. It had to have been custom printed.</p>
<p>To the OP -- Have you checked with your area about transferring in?</p>
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Automatic review for the University Honors Program is available to new, first-quarter freshmen only. Transfer students and current students interested in Honors affiliation should contact their college of enrollment for more information </p>
<p>Have you compared the University of Florida vs. The Ohio State University's Honors programs? I am a third year honors students at OSU and poked around on U of F website because of the NCAA championship games...they have a MUCH better honors program. </p>
<p>"The University of Florida is one of the top universities in recruiting National Merit and National Achievement scholars. In 2003, UF ranked fourth out of 380 participating schools nationwide, and second in public universities. UF does equally well attracting National Achievement scholars, ranking second this year out of 143 participating schools across the country, and first among the 63 public schools." <a href="http://www.honors.ufl.edu/scholarships.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.honors.ufl.edu/scholarships.html</a></p>
<p>The only school ranking better than U of F at attracting NA Scholars is Harvard...</p>
<p>Ok, we get it, you really like Florida. Believe or not, there are some people that actually DON'T want to go there and are looking at Ohio State because that IS where they want to go. The student had a question about Ohio State's program, not asking about other options THAN Ohio State.</p>
<p>UF does seem to do a splendid job of enrolling National Merit Scholars. Awfully far from Ohio though. We're happy with OSU.</p>
<p>FYI, this is the top 20 ranking from the 2006 National Merit Scholarship Corporation Annual Report for the number of National Merit Scholars enrolled by school:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard (294)</li>
<li>U. Florida (257)</li>
<li>UT-Austin (250)</li>
<li>Washington U. - St. Louis (241)</li>
<li>USC (206)</li>
<li>Northwestern (198)</li>
<li>U. Chicago (196)</li>
<li>Arizona State (189)</li>
<li>Yale (186)</li>
<li>Princeton (153)</li>
<li>Stanford (153)</li>
<li>NYU (145)</li>
<li>UNC - Chapel Hill (144)</li>
<li>Rice (140)</li>
<li>U. Oklahoma (140)</li>
<li>MIT (135)</li>
<li>TX A&M (134)</li>
<li>Vanderbilt (134)</li>
<li>Duke (118)</li>
<li>Ohio State (115)</li>
</ol>
<p>Fine company for tOSU either way. We're pleased as punch to be going there.</p>
<p>You'll see that they still keep track of your SAT scores. They may also want to know your high school class rank (better be in the top 10%). You may be placed in the Scholars program instead of honors if you don't have a decent class rank or SAT score.</p>
<p>PS: The honors dorm concept at Ohio State is NOT enforced. I have lived in Bradley and Siebert and they both contain a fair share of non-honors students... As long as you have a roomate who is in the honors program you can still "sneak" into these dorms.</p>
<p>And don't think that if you don't make one of the honors criteria that you can't be in honors. My boyfriend is like... in the 20th percent in his graduating class but he had a 32 on his ACT so he got accepted.</p>
<p>One of my good friends was in the 11th percent with a 33 and he got in also.</p>
<p>IMO, how many National Merit Scholars a school attracts isn't really a good indicator of the school's academics. It shows that you'll have several top classmates, if competition drives you - but some schools offer great fin. aid packages to attract NMS and that doesn't mean a lot about their academics today.</p>
<p>I didn't claim that it was, but I do think that it is an indicator of a school's desire to attract a higher caliber of student, and that implies that the school has regard for and a commitment to academics.</p>