<p>I have heard of a number of students doing this to get in to the main campus of Ohio State as well.</p>
<p>One advantage of starting in the summer is I think that, for new freshmen especially, is the fact that there is not the mass of all-new students hitting campus with the expectation of it being all one big party, all the time. It’s a quieter, less dramatic entrance to campus life that lets the new student get used to the college level academics and perhaps living away from home in a less frenetic and frenzied atmosphere, and lets the new student form good habits right from the start. I think this might be especially important for this group of students, who aren’t quite at the tippy-top of the applicant pool (of course, for some of the students, they are just as academically qualfied, they may have just been slower starters in high school or not as good test takers).</p>