<p>“tOSU is a very good school that is up and coming”</p>
<p>“Up and coming,” blah blah blah. Who wants up and coming when you can go to a top school for the same costs that is well positioned to remain that way?</p>
<p>I’m sorry did you not read the whole post? Hopefully your attention to detail and critical thinking and discourse is better when it comes to your classwork, I know it is with most UM students.</p>
<p>Sorry about the slight you might have felt collegeorelse. I didn’t mean to be demeaning to your post at all and I agree with your statements. I just constantly read posters on CC who call Ohio an up and coming university, as if that is a reason to attend. My point was that we live in the here and now, and tOSU is just not at the level of Michigan. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to attend a university that has the potential to improve for the same costs of a school which is clearly superior to it.</p>
<p>rjkofnovi,
No worries, I agree that for equal cost and student talent that Michigan is a better choice all other things being equal but it is also true that tOSU is a very good school and by all accounts is getting stronger and for some students due to costs or other factors it is the right choice for them and will afford them a great education. For the Poster Michigan is the clear choice.</p>
<p>so, goldenboy=lesbluesdevil? what other user names did he use again?</p>
<p>for what its worth, I have one classmate who is from columbus OH and is paying full OOS at michigan. Shes pretty happy with the choice i think</p>
<p>^likewise, i know several people from Ohio who are paying OOS tuition at UofM. When I ask them what brings them to Michigan, they simply reply “it’s a better school”.</p>
<p>Geographic diversity (Columbus campus, autumn 2011)</p>
<p>Ohio State enrolls students from every state and territory. States with the highest enrollment:</p>
<h1>500+: Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, California, Michigan</h1>
<h1>300 499: Texas, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia</h1>
<h1>100 299: Florida, Indiana, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Utah, Minnesota, Missouri, Arizona, Tennessee, Connecticut</h1>
<h1>50 99: West Virginia, Washington, Colorado, South Carolina, Kansas</h1>
<p>In all fairness, and with all due respect since this is Michigan board, there are also a good number of qualified students apply to Ohio State each year from the state of Michigan.</p>
<p>“In all fairness, and with all due respect since this is Michigan board, there are also a good number of qualified students apply to Ohio State each year from the state of Michigan.”</p>
<p>I’m sure there are Sparkeye. Honestly though, if you were from the state of Michigan would you pay full OOS fees to attend tOSU as an undergrad? I can’t imagine there are many full paying students from Michigan attending Ohio State since we have U-M and MSU here. I am certain the vast majority who are attending are either in graduate school or have some sort of large scholarship to make costs more equitable.</p>
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Qualified to go to Ohio State, not to Michigan. Nobody would go out of state to OSU that got into Michigan in state.</p>
<p>Well, that Geographic Diversity stat I have posted was for undergrads only! TOSU recruits nationally if not internationally for its graduate programs, similar to Michigan. In terms of scholarships, first know that tOSU offers them to students across the nation in addition to international students overseas, not only to Michiganders. Also know that although academically, tOSU is not yet at the level of Michigan, it does not take away the fact that academically, the school is a solid Top-15 Public Universities in the nation. </p>
<p>There are certainly variety of reasons why Michiganders (in this case) would opt for Ohio State instead. From the top of my head, besides the obvious scholarship that rjk has mentioned, some Michiganders may want to experience large city - urban living style besides college town that Michigan has to offer since Detroit is a no go and Chicago is too pricey; while others may be interested in a particular program; and perhaps a few may simply like the campus as whole since there is no need to hop on the bus for either Engineering or Music related classes. The fact of the matter is that there are over 500 of them each year, I simply can’t guess all the rationales behind their decision. </p>
<p>Since this is also a Pharmacy major related thread, I will share with OP what this Michigander has to say:</p>
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<p>Please note that this was taken from last year, prior to the recent additional $50-million merit scholarship offer and the establishment of the “Eminence Scholarship” at tOSU this year.</p>
<p>The major advantage here is that the OP is pre-admitted to Pharmacy at Michigan. This saves a lot of hassle later on. Applying to Pharmacy school is no fun which the OP would have to do at OSU. Michigan and Ohio are both ranked very high in Pharmacy.</p>
<p>I know of a high school senior who wants to go OOS to Ohio and does not want to go to Michigan (even though he could have gotten in) but his family is originally from Ohio and he is getting money from Ohio.</p>
<p>Michigan vs Ohio on cc - makes an entertaining thread even outside of sports.</p>
<p>^Obviously there are a small amount of individual exceptions for one reason or another, but you using that as evidence is like someone saying on a chance thread that their friend got in with a lower ACT score so you’ll get in 100%. A single individual example does not at all represent the views of 99% of people that would choose between these two schools.</p>
<p>Would anyone here believe me if I say that the selectivity in terms of ACT score and the total number of applications (~35k) to tOSU this year (50% ACT 27-31) are similar to Michigan prior to the joining of ‘Common App’ two years back? </p>
<p>I asked my buddy (Initial: DL - Cranbrook grad) this morning who went to State with me back in the mid-90s the reason(s) behind Michiganders attending tOSU via instant messenger. He stated that a few of his in-state classmates chose Ohio State back then after being rejected from top east coast colleges, simply because they did not want to hang with the same group of people again in college by going to either Michigan or State, and also because they were fed-up with harsh weather condition - Columbus’s milder winter weather (on average 5 degrees warmer with lesser snowfall based on my brief online research) was a huge draw according to him, in addition to a more lively metropolis-like urban environment similar to what I had mentioned above last night. So that was that… </p>
<p>These days however, I’ve read that many neighboring OOS students (Michiganders included) are attracted to Ohio State for its up-to-date new facilities on campus, amenities around South Campus Gateway, and the US News top-rated “First Year Experience” program for the freshman. </p>
<p>[South</a> Campus Gateway](<a href=“southcampusgateway.com -”>http://southcampusgateway.com/)</p>
<p>[First</a> Year Experience](<a href=“http://fye.osu.edu/]First”>http://fye.osu.edu/)</p>
<p>*In short, I agree with ‘GoBlue81’ that for the purpose of this thread, all things considered, Michigan is clearly the better choice for OP.</p>
<p>I am pre admitted to the pharmacy school, but I have to get B’s in all prerequisite courses and maintain a 3.0 gpa. Can anyone give any insight into how difficult this will be?</p>