Do you guys think the honors program is essential for a biology major wanting to go to medical school. Since medical school is very competitive, will being an honors student at osu have a big advantage over a non honors student when applying for medical school? I still haven’t heard anything back yet regarding honors college.
@Adwaya The Honors Engineering program and the Non-Honors engineering program is radically different. You’re going to be in classes with other honors engineers and the idea is that you’ll make a ton of connections within the FEH (fundamental of engineering honors) program. FEH classes tend to be a LOT of work and more challenging but curves are much nicer. The idea is they don’t want your GPA dipping low enough that they kick you out of honors so they’re nicer with grades as long as you put in effort that shows you belong there.
As for Arts and Sciences, Yes you can take Honors Bio or Honors Chem or Honors O-Chem, but in general there’s much freer selection as to when to take classes, while the engineering curriculum the first year is pretty rigid.
Honors looks good for business and arts and sciences, but generally if you don’t come in honors vs. coming in honors immediately, the biggest difference is in the engineering program.
@Js02468 Not at all. An honors student would generally do better in the same classes than a non-honors student, but there wouldn’t be much of a difference as far as graduating with honors. I will say, honors classes usually have MUCH nicer curves than non-honors classes. An example: Gen Chem 2 usually hovers around a C+ average while honors gen chem 2, while significantly harder and more work, usually has anvaverage of B+/A-.
@kdiddy34 : Thanks for telling me all that. Now I can feel proud of my acceptance into OSU’s engineering honors program.
@Adwaya Bro believe me it’s something to be proud of haha. OSU’s Honors Engineering program is one of the gems of the university and honestly makes the school feel so much smaller (in a good way). My best testimony of it is that it gives you a small engineering college feel in terms of the fact that you have a lot of the same people in your classes, smaller classes, an emphasis on teamwork, and professors who are there to teach (and they teach WELL), which is seen by the fact that they just formed a Department of Engineering Education and are hiring 6 new faculty members. But it still gives you access to the amount of resources and professors that a school with 60,000 does.
Almost all of my best friends are in FEH with me and we all go out together and study and play sports and go to football games and stuff like that and they’re all very very intelligent.
The program is difficult and taxing just in terms of work and how strictly they grade you but it’s very worthwhile in terms of future employment prospects and academic enrichment and challenge.
There are a few departments at OSU that obviously need some work and stuff like that but the FEH program is one of the best out there at any school. To what I’ve seen/heard, employers understand that too.
Accepted into honors! Was great to receive the email today (actually late last night lol) because I’m heading down to Columbus today for an event at OSU 
@kdiddy34: Recently I read a thread here about OSU having bad placement rates for jobs, and how the guy’s son didn’t get a job after getting his BS degree in Engineering. Is this true, even for honor students? Plz dont gve a biased answer.Thanks…
Adwaya, ANY information you get from any person is always going to be biased. Asking for anecdotal information like this is a REALLY bad idea. You will get anecdotes without the context. Only by doing a controlled study can you theoretically say whether OSU is more desirable to employers than some other schools. Properly designing such a study and properly executing it is absolutely impossible.
@Adwaya I know it is always disappointing if one is in the percentage that doesn’t get placed, but if you read the rest of the thread, the student was an aerospace engineering grad (very specialized) who hadn’t done a lot on his own to obtain placement or avail himself of other opportunities. Even the parent felt he could have done more. Ohio State can do some of it, but you have to be your own best advocate (much like in the college selection process!).
@Adwaya My unbiased opinion is that I’m a freshmen and I know very little about job placement lol. I can tell you that no matter what school you go to, you’re not going to have your hand held through the process of getting your first job especially if you’re a fairly specialized major like Aero or BME. From what I’ve heard and from what I’ve seen first hand, if you put in some type of effort to make yourself marketable and do well in interviews you will walk out with a job, especially in honors
I finally received an email from osu honors college on March 3. I am admitted into the honors program!
My son was admitted to engineering Friday. We’re proud and excited for him but it’s the first reply of all his applications. A question - while we await replies from the other colleges, he applied to honors, but does he need to accept the offer before he gets a decision re admission to the honors program?
No he does not need to accept the offer before the Honors decision. The Honors decision should be issued in late January or early February. My son’s stats were borderline for Honors. He called the Honors Program office in early February to reiterate his strong interest in becoming part of the Honors Program. About a week late he received acceptance into it. That sealed the deal for us!
Thank you for the reply. He’ll then call late January if he hasn’t yet heard from them.