<p>I’m a junior in H.S. in Chicago and I am intereseted in OSU. What is the average ACT score and GPA? What are the best/most popular majors? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Avg ACT is around 26-28
You’d need about a 3.5 GPA, although some have gotten in with a bit less.</p>
<p>Ohio State has a bunch of excellent majors, but their business school is where they really shine, it’s also one of the more competitive schools to gain admittance into (You’ll need to get and maintain a 3.4 GPA to stay in).</p>
<p>Although, you shouldn’t major in whatever the school is best at, you should go to majors.osu.edu and pick a major you actually like, you’ll get an excellent education regardless of your major.</p>
<p>OSU has world-class staff in many areas – several of the humanities departments are really good for example. Go with what you enjoy, and see how you like the department. Look up the faculty and do some research. It’s not a school where the majority of people stick to one subject, and one subject is clearly head-and-shoulders above the rest.</p>
<p>Thank you for the replies. I just took the ACT today and my GPA is a 3.7. I look forward to visiting next fall. Go Bucks</p>
<p>This is from the College Board:
Test Scores Middle 50% of First-Year Students Percent Who Submitted Scores
SAT Critical Reading: 540 - 650
SAT Math: 590 - 700
SAT Writing: 540 - 640
ACT Composite: 26 - 30</p>
<p>590-700 Math?</p>
<p>Wow that is pretty good, I don’t know too much about the middle 50% of other schools though.</p>
<p>I heard that this year, the average ACT for incoming freshmen at the Columbus campus (there are other regional OSU campuses, their scores are lower) is around 29. SAT/ACT scores have been going up each year for the past handful of years. When I was in Ohio this spring at a function, the big topic was all the kids that people knew who didn’t get in this year that possibly would have been admitted two years ago-many of them younger sibs of OSU students.</p>