@dreamschool19
Excellence is for in-state students (full tuition), Prominence is for out-of-state students (full tuition + out of state fee). Out of those two pools, select students are invited to interview for Distinction (full cost of attendance). If you interview and are not awarded Distinction, you still receive Excellence/Prominence.
I was also accepted Jan 19 but I still haven’t received anything back from ODI, does this mean I probably didn’t recieve scholarship?
Merit scholarship?? Are you joking? Ohio State has become an affirmative action school. My kid has perfect SAT and ACT scores. He also has taken 15 AP exams and 60 college credits hours. He got pittance from Ohio State. Miami or Ivy League is his likely destination now. BTW, I am an Ohio State alumnus
@JakeMiller44022 - Nothing for your child from OSU? I have many friends in past years that got scholarships in recent past years. Has this changed?
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$3,000 Maximus Scholarship. Maximus Scholarship used to be $6,000/yr. The money was probably moved to affirmative action scholarships. The boy has the most rigorous curriculum in the school history and is currently ranked top 1% in the class. And he aced every College Credit Plus class. In last few years, several students from our school got accepted by Harvest. Almost every other state college would offer him a free ride. I guess I can only blame him for not spending enough time writing the essay. I did not review it for him. Should we pay people to write my second child’s OSU scholarship essay???
So many of my coworkers send their high-achieving children to Miami.
Our daughter got nothing from OSU and got a lot from Miami. She’s at Miami but there have been times that she wishes she was at OSU. This year our son got the Morrill Scholarship. He had perfect math scores and extremely rigorous STEM curriculum. Our daughter only had a 32 ACT and didn’t get a dime from OSU despite all of her service. As for Affirmative Action school? Not sure where you’re going with that comment. My friend’s white daughter was admitted to UChicago where our minority son with higher stats did not. College admissions and scholarship awards are a flawed system bc it’s all a matter of opinion. Give 2 English teachers an essay with the same rubric and you could get 2 different scores. Relax your kid is just as special as so many of ours.
Besides the scholarship, what are the other benefits to being a Morrill Scholar?
https://housing.osu.edu/learningcommunities/morrill-scholars-program-learning-community/
"The purpose of Morrill Scholars Program Learning Community is to prepare students for a life of advocacy and serve as a laboratory for social change. Students will have the opportunity to learn about, discuss and engage with various social justice issues all while living in community with one another. Ultimately, members of the MSPLC will learn how to use thier personal experiences, individual passions, and leadership skills to create social change. "
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So is it mandatory to live with other Morrill Scholars or can students live outside of that LLC? Our son would like to live with another Honors student but his friend is not a MS.
I don’t believe it is mandatory, but you should ask them directly. https://odi.osu.edu/msp/contact-us.html
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@dreamschool19 Not mandatory. Many choose Honors or Scholars housing over MSPLC.
Does anyone think there’s gonna be another wave of acceptances or not really lol
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I would assume so since the last wave of admittances was in late January, but not for sure.
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We know plenty of white kids who wrote their own essays and received Morrill scholarships -even Distinction. Maybe your son’s essay reflected his upbringing or the fact that he didn’t really want to go to OSU. If he’s in the top 1% of his HS and has perfect scores and the kids from his HS are going to Harvard, why doesn’t he go to Harvard?
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@dreamschool19 First, congratulation!!! You son took care of business. Whereas, my son failed.
I call it Affirmative Action school is because now most scholarship money is based on diversity and inclusion. It should be based on academic merit.
Speaking of rigorous STEM curriculum, both of my older kids took AP Calculus and AP Physics C in their sophomore year. They were ranked high in various state-level Math competitions. They were invited to represent Ohio in Math competitions. Last semester, at a local college, my boy took junior-level computer science classes. Some of his classmate were graduating or graduate student. He can earn a computer science degree from the local college in 1 year after high school graduation. He also did well in Computing Olympiad. I know the computer science classes cannot be transferred to OSU. But with many AP exams and CCP classes under his belt, he can easily earn a degree from OSU in 2 years. Our third kid is a year ahead of them.
Again, I can only blame my son for not willing to put in the effort to get it.
I am also appalled by the fact that the current OSU administration basically decimated the merit scholarship program to fund the already rich Morrill Scholarship program. With the fairer merit scholarship program, Ohio State should be ranked much higher in national standing. With 11 million people, the Ohio’s flagship college should be ranked much higher. The current administration is doing a disservice to the students and alumni.
@Sb123Momof3, speaking of going to Ivy League school, it makes me cynical. On Christmas day, we had a party. Two of our friends send their sons to Ivy League school FREE. Then, based on the cost calculator, we need to pay full price. So, I would think that the path of least resistance is that my boy will get an under graduate degree from a public college in 2 years. After that, he can go to a highly-ranked college for the master’s degree. He can do that in less than 4 years and the money saved can be used to fund his retirement accounts for a decade. He recently had several college interviews. We will know the admission decisions in a month. Anyway, he won’t be going to any of them.
I think that our younger kids will have much better chance of getting the Morrill scholarship. They are more willing to do what it takes to get it.
@JakeMiller44022 there’s a llot of frustration in your statement there. What you’re missing is that OSU’s ranking and competitive admissions has increased significantly in the past 20 years. We can’t just shoot up to Michigan or Virginia rankings when OSU used to let in EVERYONE. Furthermore, their in state merit aid is quite generous compared to other state schools and they have frozen tuition for four years.
I wish your son luck wherever he lands.
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Also, @JakeMiller44022, Of your son has similar values to yours, he probably isn’t right for Morrill. This is from the website: “MSP seeks academically exceptional high school seniors who will:
-serve as student ambassadors and champions of scholarship and diversity
-actively engage in diversity-based leadership, service and social justice activities”
My kids’ friends in Morrill actually believe in that mission.
@Sb123Momof3 where do you see that the instate merit is generous compared to other state schools? My daughter received $11,000 more per year in merit from Miami University and Shawnee State University offered her full tution. Based on the emails she has received Akron, Wright State, Bowling Green and Toledo all offer more guaranteed merit based on her stats than OSU although she did not apply to any of them. Miami University also offers a tuition guarantee for a five year period after your enrollment.
@OhioMother It’s harder to get into OSU than those schools so they don’t have to give as much money to draw smart kids there. It’s still less expensive than private or out of state schools OSU is also ranked higher than those schools and offers more. It’s about competition.
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@Sb123Momof3 I realize that OSU is harder to get into than those schools and that they don’t have to give merit money as an incentive to get plenty of smart students to apply and that they are less expensive than private or out of state schools, but you specifically stated in the thread above regarding OSU merit aid “Furthermore, their in state merit aid is quite generous compared to other state schools and they have frozen tuition for four years.” That comment was what I was replying to. Your comment to me doesn’t in anyway support your previous comment.