<p>Glad to hear that your D’s orientation went well!</p>
<p>It sounds like she was able to end up in some good classes, even though sometimes it can be a crap shoot at orientation. But being an honors student, that will probably be the first and last time she’s ever shut out of a class.</p>
<p>I forgot about D’s Choir class. She is auditioning soon after classes start and hopes to be selected. If not, she’ll probably enroll in the non-audition choral class. So that would total 17 hours.</p>
<p>True about that being the first and last time she’s shut out of a class.</p>
<p>H202 English Lit to the present won’t count much toward an honors English major (but it’s not useless, since you can have 15 hours at the 200 level). That’s what I took first quarter fr year, and if Professor Riede is teaching it again, it’ll be a good class, if a bit hard to sit through sometimes.</p>
<p>17 hours is a fine load for her first quarter. I had 18 and it was easy, but good to get acclimated and comfortable with the school (and explore extra-curriculars). Your d will probably find with the Humanities major, even with the honors major, that she can take heavier course loads than kids in the sciences and such. For them, 19 is practically an academic overload (with labs, etc), but in the Humanities, 20 is about average.</p>
<p>We went down on 7/9-10. Same thoughts as MaryTN - OSU always seems to do those events well. Everything was well organized and on schedule (except for the “suspicious package” scare that shut down the block around the post office near Tuttle Garage.</p>
<p>My S somehow managed to get a schedule with nothing before 10am and no classes on Tuesday and Thursday (and next to nothing on Friday). Go figure. It took me years to get such a nice schedule. He’s taking Honors British Lit (I think the same one you mentioned MaryTN), an Honors Classics course, and a French review to complete the second and third courses in the sequence. And the Honors Humanities Seminar. It’s pretty light, but he wanted to ease in so that he could explore extra-curriculars (like Ambi said).</p>
<p>He has selected Lincoln for housing as well. We’ve always liked the tower arrangement with 8-per suite. It seems to provide the most square footage per person. I didn’t find it to be much of walk to the oval either. People make it out to be much further than it is. Actually, once you are inside OSU, I find the campus to be pretty compact. Or at least it feels that way. It only seems big from the car.</p>
<p>One thing about the “8 person suite” in Lincoln, Penniless Parent.</p>
<p>For freshman, it will most likely be a 16 person suite with four per room. (There will be bunk beds instead of the single beds you saw for Orientation). Upper-class suites are 8 people; most freshmen dorms are 16.</p>
<p>That wouldn’t be good news, Ambi. Everything I’ve heard from OSU (and from Lincoln residents) is that the suites in Lincoln are 8 people per. If that’s incorrect I think we are going to have a bit of a problem. Can anybody confirm the Lincoln arrangement for honors housing?</p>
<p>We were told that in the Lincoln honors housing suites that there are usually four rooms with 2 people each. My D went to an Honors overnight and stayed in Lincoln with a freshman, and that was the way HER suite was configured. She also mentioned that in one of the suites on her floor, there was one room with three people in it instead of two, but that they paid less than the other people. People may be confusing Lincoln tower with Morrill–I was told that many of the suites in that tower, which is non-honor, have more than eight. I do agree that eight in these very spacious rooms is fantastic, but sixteen would be a nightmare.</p>
<p>We had orientation a few weeks ago. I though it was very organized, also. We were told that we wouldn’t find out about housing until the beginning of September. Is that what you heard?</p>
<p>Yes, that is what we heard also, because many students change their minds about where they want to stay or who they want for roomates after attending orientation. I also noticed on the housing website that there is a different charge for people in the towers who are in a two person suite rather than a 3 or 4 person suite (about $300.00 per quarter, I believe) Someone said that on the housing application, there was a box to check for the type of suite that you wanted.</p>
<p>Aren’t students at OSU required to take a first year seminar class?</p>
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<li>Also, it seems like they offer a large variety of honors courses, which is great. I go to psu and the number of honors classes is very limitted when dealing with 200 or 300 level courses. I am also taking brit lit from 1800-, for instance, and there is only one section available. Of all english courses offered, only 5 are honors and three of those are seminar-style classes. Does anyone knows how this compares to OSU?</li>
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<p>I posed the suite size question to the folks at OSU Housing and this was their reply: “The majority of the rooms in Lincoln are two person rooms with there being 8 students per suite. There are some suites that have a 4 person room in one of the rooms which would then make it 10 people per suite.” </p>
<p>Sounds pretty much like rcefn said. I feel better now. :o)</p>
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<p>Here are the class descriptions. The Honors courses are at the very bottom. <a href=“http://english.osu.edu/courses/coursedescription.cfm[/url]”>http://english.osu.edu/courses/coursedescription.cfm</a> It looks like 3 seminar and 6 non-seminar honors courses in the English dept.</p>
<p>interesting, thank you mary. I guess it is because the honors program at OSU has more students compared to the ~300 or so admitted a year into psu’s. Does anyone know how many students are admitted into the honors program at OSU yearly for comparison purposes?</p>
<p>Penniless, good use of your resources. That is absolutely true, all suites in the tower are either 8 or 10, never 16.</p>