I just got into the Ohio State University at Columbus and I want to know how housing works between honors, scholars, and regular students. Can honors and scholars room? Can honors and regulars room? can scholars and regulars room? Please let me know so that I can figure out who I can room with! Thanks
@Mray18 I have the same question, please post if you contact OSU Housing or Admissions and get an answer. I think all Honors and Scholars MUST be in designated dorms. that would mean if you are in Honors or Scholars and want to room with a non Honors or Scholars student, then they must be in the designated dorm for your program?!? However, I’m not sure if floors in dorms are dedicated to Honors and Scholars, which would then preclude and non program student from rooming with you?!?
From what I recall when my D got into Scholars - Scholars room only with Scholars and only with Scholars in their same interest area (ex. Health Sciences). The Scholars groups are housed together by interest area usually taking up a floor of a dorm building, but the different scholars groups are in different buildings some on south some on north campus. Honors only room with other honors students.
https://honors-scholars.osu.edu/scholars/community
https://honors-scholars.osu.edu/honors
OSU generally advises not to request housing with friends from high school. They have a very good room mate survey to find you a room mate with similar living habits so night owls are with night owls, etc. and part of college is meeting new people.
Honors:
Ohio State has three Honors residence halls, one on each residential area of campus. Students who are accepted into the Honors Program must live in Honors Housing or another approved university learning community.
North Campus - Taylor Tower is designed as a quad where four students share a bedroom, a common room, and a bathroom within the room.
South Campus - Bradley Hall typically houses students in 2-person rooms; however, some are assigned to triples and quads.
West Campus - Lincoln House features 8 and 10 person suites with a common area, a bathroom and four bedrooms. Most students living in Lincoln House reside in doubles; however, some live in quads.
Scholars:
Each program is assigned a specific dorm:
Advocates for Communities and Education — Smith-Steeb Hall, South Campus
•Architecture — Torres House, North Campus
•Arts — Baker Hall West, South Campus
•Biological Sciences — Barrett House, North Campus
•Business — Blackburn House, North Campus
•Environment and Natural Resources — Morrill Tower, West Campus
•Green Engineering — Drackett Tower, North Campus
•Health Sciences — Park-Stradley Hall, South Campus
•Humanitarian Engineering - Drackett Tower, North Campus
•Humanities — Baker Hall East, South Campus
•Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship — Norton House, North Campus
•International Affairs — Smith-Steeb Hall, South Campus
•Media, Marketing and Communication — Morrill Tower, West Campus
•Mount Leadership Society — Bowen House, North Campus
•Politics, Society and Law — Smith-Steeb Hall, South Campus
•Sport and Wellness — Morrill Tower, West Campus
•STEM Exploration and Engagement — Houston House, North Campus
To further answer your questions, Honors and Scholars can not room together. In Scholars, you are assigned or choose to room with someone else from your program in the same building as the rest of your program. Honors is a little more fluid. You can choose Honors housing, or a learning community to live in. I’m not sure how Honors works as far as honors rooming with “regulars” if you choose a learning community.
@bucks724 thank you! Can you elaborate a bit more on the Honors option to live in a learning community? Where can I find info on them, as well as what dorms they would reside in?
You can be in honors without living in an honors dorm. Just look at the communities listed above by dorm.
@bucks724 found Learning Community info on the OSU Housing site!
Did today’s acceptance notices indicate if you got accepted into the Honors College or just regular admissions?
@dmc1121 acceptances notices so far are only for general admission. Honors, Scholars and scholarship info all come later.
@Meant2B Thank you!
@meant2b - sure did! I hunted all of this information down when my daughter was newly admitted. They put a ton of info out there, it just sometimes takes a while to find it. 
@bucks724 Huh, I think it’s a new requirement that honors student have to live in a honors dorm or a learning community - I know a lot of current honors students who didn’t live in either. Kind of unfortunate, as Taylor, Bradley, and Lincoln are not some of the nicer dorms at this school.
Hey guys! I made a dorm tour of my dorm at ohio state! Check it out for more info on what the dorms are like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYPg6VIUxsg&t=16s