<p>I talked to someone from Ohio State in December and she said to be looking for scholarship offers to come out for OOS students near the end of December. I’m worried that I haven’t heard anything by now. I’ve already been accepted into the college and the Honors Program. My ACT is a 32, and I’m in the top 2% of my class, and I was told that there was at least one big scholarship I would be considered for based on those stats. Anyone else heard anything yet, or know when we will hear something?</p>
<p>horses…D1 was accepted into Pharmaceutical Sciences back in November, and she is OOS also. She received a letter in the mail in December offering her the National Buckeye Scholarship and a $3K Maximus scholarship. She sent in her HOSA for consideration for the Presidential and Medalist scholarship competitions, but hasn’t heard anything back yet. Invitations for those scholarships aren’t expected to go out until mid-February.</p>
<p>Her stats are 3.99UW/4.15W, 36 ACT, 2400 SAT, Rank 11/568.</p>
<p>D got an email from an Admissions Counselor today that last year, not a single applicant received the OOS National Buckeye Scholarship who had the minimum 1240 M&R SAT score. OSU changed the minimum score to 1260 this year & they did that in the height of application season which we think was not so nice of a time to change it.</p>
<p>my daughter got deferred last week (we’re OOS) and her sat is 1300 M&R so who knows what is going on.her gpa is 3.25 and we expected an acceptance and buckeye scholarship</p>
<p>if i have not heard anything about national buckeye does that mean i will not get it? sat-1360, gpa-3.90…was really hoping for it…would sell my dad on osu just that much more…</p>
<p>My son is also a 32 ACT with a 4.39 weighted gpa. We are from a large Chicago suburban school that does not rank. We have not received any scholarship offer and the Maximus scholarships have already been mailed. I was told the next “wave” of scholarship offers, I’m assuming the next step down then, will come by March 1st. I was also told it was too late to get anything from the school confirming what his rank was (and the school has initially refused anyway) but we think he is in the top 3%. If he does not receive the Buckeye and Provost then we can’t afford to send him here. I had NO idea the scholarship offerings worked this way as we have heard from all our other schools months ago and earned their highest scholarship. It is a humbling experience to know OSU has so many top candidates and that we really don’t know what qualities they are looking for.</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten anything either and it’s worrying me! I’ve been accepted to OSU and the honors program since mid-November. I have a 1360 SAT and a 31 ACT. What’s up with this?!</p>
<p>when i was freaking out about not getting my acceptance for like a month after they started sending out letters, my friend said its clearly bc they’re blown away by my app and are parading it around campus, showing everyone what a catch theyve got. im assuming thats whats happening again. probs you too enguarde n sonfromil. theyre stunned by how phenomenal our apps really are and its freaking them out.</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten anything with a 1360 and honors acceptance either (from Baltimore, Maryland). I’m visiting for Honors visitation day Feb. 5th so I’ll ask about it.</p>
<p>I called today and talked to someone in Scholarships and someone from Admissions. The Scholarship people told me “it’s over” and if you didnt receive anythihng yet you won’t. Admissions said “they’re wrong” but admitted that they have offered scholarships to everyone that they REALLY want already and reminded me they are very exclusive. If you did not receive an offer yet then it is because you did not fall into this catagory. There is still a chance you may get offered something, because the cutoff for applications is not until 2/1 so within a few weeks after that, you will receive a letter if you are getting anything. I had also been told in a previous call that some people decline the scholarship and that frees up more money. Although there is still hope for something, I suspect our odds are slim as my son does not have any jaw-dropping EC’s so there is nothing other than academics. I can’t beleive I was so naiive to think academics would be enough. Now we must go to “Plan B” which is choosing from his 2nd choices–schools that pale in comparison to OSU. I refuse to pay $33k+ a year though for any school, despite the build-up and reputation. Minneota is ranked right behind them and is only $20k with the scholarship he received there.</p>
<p>They really said “it’s over” ? Wow, that’s a harsh choice of words from such a reputable university. Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>As a first year student who received no scholarships whatsoever (I probably got in OOS b/c someone else didn’t get a scholarship), and I qualified for almost no borrowing either ( 
) I was told that I could apply for the special scholarships this year. Yeah, I thought. So I printed off all 124 pages of them and went through them one by one (the search engine isn’t very good). </p>
<p>There are some special scholarships for Engineering, Architecture and Agriculture but what I’ve found is that there are almost none that I can qualify for OOS. To my surprise, there is only one special scholarship pool for biology students.</p>
<p>Compared to where my mom teaches, Ohio State has a very poor level of scholarship support for students, particularly out of state students.</p>
<p>As an Ohio resident and a parent sending my younger son off to OSU next fall, I have to tell you that the state of Ohio doesn’t offer much financial support to its colleges and universities. My older son is attending another university oos and paying almost nothing with scholarships, grants and fed aid. When he applied to a state university here in Ohio, his package included $16,000 in loans for ME. He also applied to UNC Chapel Hill (oos again) and would have gone there for FREE. A simple comparison, but that shows me how much more other states support their post-secondary schools compared to Ohio. It’s not just OSU, it’s all of Ohio.</p>
<p>Thanks BrooklyninOh </p>
<p>Yeah, OSU indicated my mom could borrow $24,000 per year. Geez. I am really disappointed in the special scholarships, though. The lack of department money indicates that alumni of the various departments aren’t endowing their academic programs, too.</p>
<p>My mom teaches engineering in Missouri. Last year her academic program awarded $124,000 scholarship money in the undergraduate program with less than 150 students. Most people with gpa’s over 3.0 received $2000 or more.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’ll ever receive a penny from OSU. Financial aid told me I should just stay home if I couldn’t afford to borrow the money!</p>
<p>As a Ohio taxpayer, I feel that most scholarships should go to in-state residents since Ohio taxpayers are helping to support the institution. Ohio State should view OOS students/parents as a way to generate extra $$$ to help reduce our Ohio tuition! From what I’ve read on the Michigan forum, it appears that Michigan offers little or no scholarship support to OOS. They view the OOS student as a way to generate income and become more self-supporting.</p>
<p>I can certainly see why Ohio residents might feel that way if the scholarship money comes from tax receipts. In my mom’s university, the scholarship money really doesn’t come from an annual state allocation (portion of tax receipts). It’s interest off an underlying endowment. That endowment may have used some state money to start it, but the bigger amount is private money (or interest accrued).</p>
<p>What I was talking about is departmental money, usually raised from alumni. Say Alumni A graduates and makes it big in corn husking. Then they endow a scholarship for corn husking majors. They don’t care where the students come from, all they are interested in is funding the best corn husker around, so that their department can improve its stature. Indeed, the alum might want corn husking to become more accepted someplace else, so they emphasize diversity. These are private monies used to stimulate participation in an academic area. From what my mom and I see, it looks like OSU doesn’t have much money like this (with some exceptions in Engineering, Agriculture and Architecture).</p>
<p>Anyway, you can search the special scholarship and read them yourself. A lot of them are for Ohio residents.</p>
<p>One thing to consider, Ohiopublic is that Ohio’s support for higher education is both very poor and stretched too thinly among too many four year universities (the former a function of the state balancing the budget on the backs of higher education in the 90s and the latter a function of Jim Rhodes adding far too many four year campuses in the 60s). </p>
<p>Tuition covers more of operating expenses than does the state subsidy. As such, those OOS students are helping to subsidize Ohio residents’ tuition. Even if an OOS student gets a 5K scholarship, they’re still pumping 5K more into the university’s operating budget than an in-state student. That’s money that in-state students would need to make up for in their absence.</p>
<p>I think its important to remember too that not all endowment funds or alumni donations are filtered to scholarships. Of course there are specific scholarship funds and those donations go there, but a general donation to any university can be used as the school sees fit.</p>
<p>yeah, maybe OSU alumni prefer to put their money into the sports programs.</p>
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<p>or their money is directed like this</p>
<p>[Office</a> of Development - The Ohio State University](<a href=“http://www.giveto.osu.edu/?SPSID=89184&SPID=10645&DB_OEM_ID=17300]Office”>http://www.giveto.osu.edu/?SPSID=89184&SPID=10645&DB_OEM_ID=17300)</p>
<p>Actually, a tiny portion of Ohio State fundraising goes into athletics. Unless, there is a major facility donation of $10MM or higher, the annual percentage of athletic donations generally hovers around 7-8 percent.</p>
<p>Last year, Ohio State raised approximately $300MM in private donations with $20MM going to athletics. The dedicated percentage for athletics in the upcoming $2.5B campaign is set to be 5%.</p>