Does anyone have insight into whether it subtly works against a student applicant if his/her parents are professors? Ohio State, specifically; but also in general. Possible reasons include the significant tuition reduction.
Faculty kid is said to be one of the best bumps there is. Assuming you are other wise well qualified for the school.
I think being a faculty child is a good benefit. the colleges obviously want motivated employees. Not good for the college to have an employee with a grudge and ax to grind. Too many ways to hurt the university from within.
If the applicant is qualified but rejected. There could be a lawsuit that is painted as a denial to employee’s benefits. The university would surely hate it because it is costly to go to court.
Getting one’s own kids admitted to a college where one teaches is not a perq that I’ve ever been aware of – as a professor for 30+ years. But I don’t see how it could ever be a DISadvanvantage.
I am aware of one perq in my case: no tuition cost for my kids to attend my university. But there’s no guarantee of admission, and thus the monetary “benefit” that I might get of having my kids attend my university is not assured. Attending another public college within my state? No perq to me. I would pay in-state tuition without any other subsidy.
As it happens, neither of my children wanted to attend my university. One of them wanted to study in a “major league city” (major league as in sports). The other wanted to go to college in a “real city,” preferably on the East Coast. And that’s what they did. Their cost of attendance was subsidized by ME and MY WIFE.
The parent university for the Med School where dh teaches offers free tuition, unfortunately it’s a college that they wouldn’t want to go to in a million years. We got a very small tuition reimbursement for college for the kids though if they attended another college ( a few thousand a year IRC.)
The college where I worked when my kids were applying was closer to our house than their high school is. And extremely non-competitive. No tuition reimbursements because the consortiums they belonged to were reciprocal-based, and the schools they went to did not participate. But they would have been accepted in a flash, even though they would have paid no tuition.
Are you asking whether schools that offer tuition discounts to faculty kids don’t actually pay out because they deny those otherwise qualified kids? The answer is no. Think about it. If they did would any professor seriously consider it a benefit? That’s what it is and how it’s costed.
But if you aren’t qualified you won’t get in.
The college worked out a tuition benefit with faculty (and sometimes staff) long before your college dreams, OP. Policy is policy, as long as you qualify for an admit. But also look into whether the U has arrangements with other colleges. They sometimes kick in an amount toward tuition elsewhere or other forms of exchange. But you have to learn exactly what they do offer and how that works.
Are your parents discouraging you from Ohio State, for some reason?
Even in consortium arrangements, all schools agree to accept a minimum number of new students from other consortium schools each year. Now, in a year where there are many applicants, not all will get the benefit, but they may still be accepted and get other kinds of aid.
My friend works at one of the 7 sisters colleges and was very happy with their tuition exchange program. This gives her daughter the option of attending her college or one of the many others on the list (assuming she is accepted). Different colleges in the exchange offer different discount rates, and the slots are limited, but they were able to work within the parameters.