About half of the acceptances came on Friday Dec 10 (equivalent to Friday Dec 9 this year). There is no pattern to which EA applicants get decisions in December vs. January, it seems to be random. Decisions were posted on the portal throughout the day until quite late into the night. Emails came after the portal was updated starting in the evening, continued to trickle in over the weekend, and many posters on the thread didn’t get email until Monday.
The next group of EA applicants received decisions January 21, with the same process (decisions posted on the portal throughout the day, email coming later). However there were also some EA decisions delayed until later in January and some EA reported receiving decisions in early Feb. Many were also deferred to RD. From my skimming of the thread from last year it sounds like maybe there were an overwhelming number of apps that caused some issues in the process? We can hope it will go more smoothly this year…
Honors, Scholars, merit scholarships, etc. were awarded later on, so we shouldn’t expect that information to arrive as part of the decision this week or in January.
Also, for those who like to look at data… there are some interesting reports here for people who are interested in the details of exactly how many applications are being received, and how many admission offers are being made. Login required (an applicant’s portal login will work). Admissions Reports > Analysis and Reporting > The Ohio State University
Here is a report from last December (posted by @billiv) showing the number of freshman and undergraduate transfer admission offers that were made in the first wave (December) for students entering Autumn 2022, so we can make a guess at approximately how many applicants may be offered admission tomorrow:
Here is the final report for freshman and undergraduate transfer admissions for Autumn 2022 so you can see the total numbers admitted last year, and compare to the number admitted in the December wave:
Finally here is the CURRENT report as of this week, showing the current number of freshman and undergraduate transfer applicants, compared to the same time last year, for anyone who would like to compare the number of early applicants between this year’s admission season and last year’s season. This doesn’t show how many will be admitted this week; the report will be updated next week with those numbers.
I haven’t seen a report exactly like this for any school other than Ohio State. Many other public universities seem to have some type of report (with varying levels of data), but you have to find it, and the data might be one or two years old. The nifty thing about this particular report is that Ohio State updates it frequently, so we can already see the size of the EA applicant pool for this year, and then next week we should be able to see how many were admitted in the first wave.
Last year’s data was posted on last year’s thread by @billiv and I have just compiled it together and updated with this year’s report.
EFC means how much a family can afford/ pay for college. So the lower the family income is, the lower the EFC is. COA is just the total cost to pay for that school, so everyone has the same thing if I’m not wrong.
The first acceptance posted on last year’s thread was timestamped 9:27 AM. Most of them seemed to arrive later in the day and even late into the night… and only half of the acceptances will come out in December anyway, so don’t drive yourself crazy refreshing that portal all day!
The EFC is used mostly for a needs based school which tends to be smaller private schools. And your EFC is used to see if you qualify for Pell grant etc. For my son, our EFC was like $30,000 however we pay full price oos tuition for him at Purdue which is about $41,000 a year. Please don’t thing your EFC is what you will pay for school. It’s only what they think you can afford to pay which a non needs based school doesn’t really care what you can afford or not afford. - only needs based schools care about that number.
. I was thinking midnight.