<p>The current rate is 73%. The above poster nailed it. Ohio State has done an excellent job of, despite very selective admissions standards, maintaining a high level of socio-economic diversity. Ohio State has a significantly higher percentage of first generation college students and lower percentage of students coming from $100K income families than the national averages for selective public universities.</p>
<p>Such students have been statistically shown to graduate at slower rates than students with similar incoming class rank and test score stats who are coming from upper middle class families where the parents are college graduates.</p>