<p>Does anyone know how many students are invited to take part in the Maximus Competition? My son got an invitation, and he is deciding whether he should participate. We are from OOS and he got the National Buckeye Scholarship for non-Ohiio residents. Thanks.</p>
<p>midwestDad2: when did your son receive the National Buckeye Scholarship? I was accepted Dec. 12 and received the Honors acceptance Dec. 22nd, but have not heard about scholarship yet.</p>
<p>My son just received it yesterday, December 30. Good luck to you too.</p>
<p>Don’t know how many are invited, but my son, in NJ, got the notification re award of Maximus scholarship and competition and the Buckeye Scholarship today.</p>
<p>My S received notification in VA today re: Maximus scholarship/competition and National Buckeye Scholarship. Congrats to all!</p>
<p>If you s or d is interested in OSU it’s a great opportunity. We visited there with D#1. You can’t tour the campus without groups of students calling out to you about how much they love it there. They must be doing something right. D#2 is now considering OSU Honors, but needs to spend some time there herself. Our neighbor was granted the Presidential Scholarship a few years back and it has been great for her. She was involved with research right away and has been abroad multiple times.</p>
<p>When my oldest (in state) was invited in 2008, there were three dates from which to choose. We picked ours…and found out there were 500 students each date - 1,500 total, and only 80 awards. We spent a hotel night and other travel money and never had another scholarship offer. Second daughter is invited. We are not going.</p>
<p>There are actually more than 80 awards but some of those are for residents of special counties only. </p>
<p>This is really one trick OSU uses to get students to visit the campus. The chance of getting one of these awards is worst than getting into Harvard. I also don’t think they publish the stats of those who got the awards.</p>
<p>From my experience of attending the Maximus competition along with knowing several winners of the Presidential full-ride Scholarship, statistics don’t really come into play. Every student asked to participate is highly qualified and has been admitted into the Honors program. The ten Presidential Scholarship winners will be admitted into the Collegium at OSU, which is made up of students with very high potential of future success and winning awards such as the Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall, etc–they receive mentoring and valuable advice–and are expected to go above and beyond the normal college curriculum.The thing they all seem to have in common is a very high ability to express themselves in word and speech. They tend to be very good writers, and make a strong impact when asked to come in for interviews. They are enthusiastic and impressive. Many, many excellent students take the Maximus test–and it is very well-organized and offers a good chance to see the University-- but they are really looking for the needle in the haystack. I think that eighty students are asked to come back for interviews, ten will be named Presidential Scholars and the other 70 will be named Medalist winners and receive full tuition.</p>
<p>Anyone invited mind sharing stats?</p>
<p>This is a bit of a digression, but why is it a “trick” to get you to visit campus? My s was one of 40 about 1000 applicants to get a full tuition scholarship at his University. So 80 of 1500 sounds like decent odds to me. Go vist the campus and show inteest. That cant hurt.</p>
<p>There are many ways to get a full tuition$ from OSU. There is Morrill scholarships, all NMF, and then the Medelists from Maximus competition. If I remember it right, there were a lot more than 1500 participants. I think every Honor student gets to go (I could be wrong here). </p>
<p>The event itself was arranged very well. I would guess that most of the participants left with good feelings about the school. As a matter of fact, we paid our deposit a few days after that visit.</p>
<p>I agree with Dad II that the event is very well organized considering the number of people. Applicants with ACTs 32+ and SAT 1420+ are invited, and I think that Honors starts at a 30. As far as ways of getting full tuition…not so much. Morill is for underrepresented/first gen/minority, NMF is ONLY if you designated OSU as your first choice. I would love to see the stats, but I suspect a small percentage of the 7,000 incoming freshman get full tuition merit awards. With the Maximus award of $2,700 it does make OSU very affordable for an in-state student.</p>
<p>DadII=-
are your talking about your d or your s in post #12?</p>
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<p>D2…is this for your son? Is this a “just in case he doesn’t get accepted to a T20 school” deposit? </p>
<p>I want to say…I am a native of Ohio and I think they have a number of EXCELLENT public universities…including OSU.</p>
<p>I’m a OU grad and proud of it.</p>
<p>DD was invited and attended last year. She was not invited for an interview for the Presidential (full cost of education award) and only 50 were invited for those 10 scholarships. She was one of the initial 70 winners of the Medalist Scholarship…we think for two reasons. One, she finished the extra scholarship application…my theory being that they may find the 80 they need from that pool so why bother reading the others who don’t take the time to fill that out…not verified. Two, she wrote her essays with a quirky angle to make them stand out…don’t get me wrong she’s an excellent writer…but you have to get noticed. She attended the last of the three dates and heard that all were full. Mostly engineering majors (they sort them out by college for the final session) in her bunch and heard the same from classmates who went the other two dates. So maybe the arts and science kids have an edge here? Wish I could remember the essay topics but don’t think that would help. They do a nice recruiting job, even for a campus not at it’s best midwinter…she had her picture taken with Brutus and they emailed it to her! </p>
<p>When she received her notification letter, she was told since she was also being considered for the Distinguished Scholarship (for NMFinalists who select Ohio State as their first choice), that she would receive that scholarship instead; if offered, so that the Medalist scholarship would go to the next in line. That then happened and she also subsequently received an Ohio State Sponsored NM scholarship but they wouldn’t add it to her other…so we tried to refuse the Dist and go back to Medalist so it would add on and no way jose…would have been nice if they all added together but I’m not complaining as it’s still nice when her fees are cut in half once they apply her scholarship funds!</p>
<p>has anyone heard anything about moving on to the interview stage for 2010?</p>
<p>I talked to OSU on Friday. The person I talked with said that calls were made on Thursday and Friday if you were invited to interview. If you didn’t receive a call, you most likely will not be asked to interview.</p>
<p>Someone I know was invited to interview for the Presidential Scholarship. He said he was told about 40 applicants got invited.</p>
<p>I don’t know if the good-news Maximus results letters have started going out yet, but the bad-news ones apparently have. My D got a letter today saying that she’s no longer in the running for either Presidential or Medalist scholarships. Oh well.</p>