<p>My son is a National Merit Semi-Finalist and is really being wooed by Ok. Does anyone have any thoughts on the school? He has already been accepted and we will need to go for a visit, but we are in Georgia, and just wondering if people that have seen it can comment on the school-campus, classes, student life etc. Thanks!!</p>
<p>My son is a 1st year student, NMS. He lives on the floor of Walker with many of the other NMS students. He loves that aspect of dorm life. We looked at quite a few campuses and he really liked the OU campus best. It has a nice mix of old and new buildings and there is enough variety that you can recognize the buildings by sight (this was very important to him…Alabama, but contrast was confusing since to him, most of the buildings looked alike)</p>
<p>Norman is a college town adjacent to a fairly large city in OKC. It has that rather traditional campus feel. He looked at Georgia Tech, again, as contrast and felt it was much to close to the city to have the same feel.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. My son didn’t even apply to Ga. tech. It’s in a “not so great” part of town, and as a dual enrolled student there, he gets the daily reports on campus violence, which is surprisingly high. </p>
I talked my son out of bothering to apply at GaTech. I travel to Atlanta to work a couple of times a year and we often drive through the campus area in transit to offices and such. I would completely agree…it is in a ‘not so great’ part of town.
My son is in his second year at OU as a NMS. He is really happy with his choice. It’s a beautiful campus and OU is a great college town.
Yes, I think after we hear definitively on NMF standing we are going to book a week end to go check it out. I really have heard nothing but good things.
I mean there are a lot of not so positive things about OU and the surrounding Norman community. To give but one example, the city of Norman just killed [plans](http://newsok.com/norman-city-council-says-no-to-high-density-development/article/5388573)for building high density, off campus student housing near the university. This effectively means that upperclassmen students will continue to be spread out in a way that encourages less interaction among their peers, and lower revenues for businesses which would have catered to the students.
I’ve discussed some of the university’s shortcomings before, but unless a specific question is brought up (rare on this relatively inactive subforum), many of the university’s negatives will not come to light.
There are pros and cons to every school. Overall, I think the pros outweigh the cons at OU.
FWIW, I don’t blame the city for killing those plans. Their residents spoke out and had good reasons to be opposed to the development. Good for the city officials for listening and acting on those objections.
Does anyone have any experience with the biology programs?