<p>As an out of stater, I'm in love with this school! However, I've heard some pretty rocky things.... Ohio state is way too big and miami is was too expensive, so ohio u seems perfect! I've heard people claim it's nothing but a party school but others seem to be in love.. Someone help! It seems beautiful and the student body seems to enjoy the school. Any feedback would be helpful! Thanks :)</p>
<p>I’ve heard both things. There is a lot of partying but some students just plain love it. You should be able to avoid some of the partying by focusing on your studies and picking people with similar interests.</p>
<p>Ohio U has a good honors college program where you could probably find students who are ready to work rather than party.</p>
<p><a href=“Honors at OHIO | Ohio University”>http://www.ohio.edu/honors/</a></p>
<p>Ohio University is a very difficult school for an out of stater. Most people know each other from High School it can be a challenge to meet people. If you go there, find a roommate from out of state as well so that you can learn together. Greek Life may be a choice but again if you are from out of state it can be hard. If you have another school with a more balanced population go there. Ohio State actually percentage wise has a better balance of in-state vs. out of state.</p>
<p>^ Actually the %age OOS for each school is the same (14%). That data is available in the Common Data Set.</p>
<p>Hey, I’m on the same boat as you! I’m from CT and I was a little worried about OU’s reputation but eventually I decided it was the school for me. Did you end up enrolling at OU?</p>
<p>Since there are thousands of students at OU I am sure that all the Ohio state residents are not acquainted with one another and do not hangout only with former classmates from high school. I attended a 2,000 student college that was part of a larger university. I had two high school classmates with me and I literally never saw them on campus. Different dorms, different activities, different college friends. You’ll be the same.</p>
<p>OU is a good college and if you take advantage of the opportunities there you will enjoy it and will be fine.</p>
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<p>Unless you want to transfer and find out that none of the credits from the Honors Tutorial College will transfer. </p>
<p>Yes, it does seem transfer credit is a problem. Here’s the link for anyone who wants the details:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ohio-university-athens/374249-experience-with-honors-tutorial-college.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ohio-university-athens/374249-experience-with-honors-tutorial-college.html</a></p>
<p>Does anyone know if they offer good merit aid at ohio university?</p>
<p>They have some automatic tuition aid. You can look up the requirements.</p>
<p>Looking at the other thread where the HTC courses didn’t transfer to Vanderbilt…that was Vanderbilt’s choice, and doesn’t tell you anything about what other target universities would do with those credits. (It was also 7 years ago, and their policies may have changed.) I transferred in 1997, and Harvard, Stanford and Penn all accepted 100% of my credits, despite some courses like a semester-long theater course on stagings of Twelfth Night. In general, target universities will refuse to give credit for courses in CATEGORIES they don’t offer, like accounting and nursing classes not being accepted at purely liberal arts schools. But the fact that a liberal arts course on that exact theme isn’t offered at the second university doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I would not transfer anywhere that rejected 40 legit liberal arts credits, and even if Vanderbilt would still do that in 2015, if you can get into Vanderbilt, you can get into a lot of other great schools that wouldn’t have denied those credits.</p>