<p>CHS2011Mom, I think he’s likely to be accepted. You’ve probably already seen this: [General</a> Requirements | First-year Students, Admissions, Oregon State University](<a href=“This page could not be found | Undergraduate Admissions | Oregon State University”>This page could not be found | Undergraduate Admissions | Oregon State University)</p>
<p>I know a number of kids who’ve gone there and liked it very much.</p>
<p>Thanks, 'rentof2; yep, I’ve been poking around on their website–I’m just nervous about his GPA if his band grades are discounted and I can’t tell if they recalculate GPA to exclude electives or not (I know the high school transcript just says 3.04, which includes his electives). I know they look at the student as a whole but I’m unsure about how his numbers will balance out. His GPA is toward the bottom of the pack compared to admitted students (according to collegeboard.com), his SAT scores are all in the top 25th percentile compared to admitted students. I’m hoping that his commitment to the band program (all four years, with a couple of musicianship awards) helps to make up for the rockier picture that his academic grades paint.</p>
<p>Judging from other kids I’ve known who’ve gone there, I really think he’ll be fine. OSU has made a shift to holistic admissions, and with his music committment and his test scores – along with his respectable GPA! – I think he’s safe.</p>
<p>I mean, I don’t work in admissions, but I think it’s all good.</p>
<p>(I’d say Go Beavs… but I have a Duck daughter, so you know… I just can’t. ;))</p>
<p>Yippeee! Son got one of those no-essay-fast turn around-free applications from Whitworth!</p>
<p>Shrink- D3, having watched both sisters apply broadly and early and to top 25 schools and having watched the angst, chose Whitworth and used that one, no essay free app. It sure was easy.</p>
<p>Do you know if the admission rate is the same with that application? Or what happens if you don’t get in with it? Deferred or just a no? Never to soon to panic!</p>
<p>P.S. I just noticed the percent of black students is now up to 3%! Yeah!</p>
<p>Not sure with Whitworth, but my son did one of those fast apps from Willamette last year. They needed more info on 2nd quarter grades, so he ended up having to wait for an answer, not formally deferred. Eventually accepted but went elsewhere. Heard from several people who did the fast app that they were offered an initial financial package, then more $ later.</p>
<p>I believe it is just like any other application, but no essay required.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks!</p>
<p>Shrinkrap: My D just got that one from Whitworth as well. Since she was applying anyway its like getting an early Christmas Gift. Already finished the App, and got the requests in for the requisite information for them. Now we just wait. Would be great to have one in the pocket before Halloween</p>
<p>^ Nice! Hoping to get son to look at it this weekend. He is already so busy.</p>
<p>Yay! Priority app from Willamette; Also on MY list (but not sons…)</p>
<p>Shrinkrap- H and S were very impressed with Willamette as a school. Less pleased with the town. I think of it as the school that got away. Not sure if she is still there but 4 yrs ago H and S had a wonderful meeting with a young African American woman who was a graduate and working in admissions.</p>
<p>This is the rainy town, right? Was that what they didn’t like?</p>
<p>^ Willamette’s in Salem. When we first visited in February, the town seemed somewhat dreary. But it’s totally different in early fall and late spring. In August, when we were last there, Salem had hanging baskets of flowers from every lamp post, and cafes and restaurants placed tables and chairs out on the wide sidewalks. Students were out and about in the cafes, coffeeshops, and at the theaters. It looked like a college town.</p>
<p>Oregon is rainy the way that England is rainy, and the rain makes things green. Some of the landscape, particularly driving from Salem east to Silver Falls State Park, reminded me of Scotland. But Californians can be sort of paranoid about rain. During one orientation, a parent asked how students coped with the weather.</p>
<p>“But Californians can be sort of paranoid about rain”</p>
<p>That is true I guess; My “California” kids get really excited by rain, at least for the first month of it. My son feels deprived because we have to travel to snow.( Is there snow boarding nearby ? ) I, on the other hand, am from New York.</p>
<p>I’m a California transplant, but my son is native Oregonian–a regular webfoot. He loves the wet weather. I remember that it rained every day in November the year I came to Oregon for school–coming from southern California, I was mightily impressed.</p>
<p>There’s excellent snowboarding on Mt. Hood, which is about sixty miles away (Hoodoo and Ski Bowl, a little further up the hill to Timberline and Meadows), and it’s definitely an easy day trip.</p>
<p>Hmmm…Willamette asks if you have ever been expelled or suspended from any school…gulp! I thought schools usually limited the question to high school. Son has gone to the same school since he was 3 years old.</p>
<p>On our local news tonight ( Last night was "Loosey Goosey; the missing garden ornament). </p>
<p>Could have been</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-14/most-dangerous-college-campuses-ranked/5/[/url]”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-14/most-dangerous-college-campuses-ranked/5/</a></p>
<p>or</p>
<p>[University</a> of the Pacific – most dangerous campus in the nation? For What It’s Worth](<a href=“http://christopherfountain.com/2010/02/25/university-of-the-pacific-most-dangerous-campus-in-the-nation/]University”>http://christopherfountain.com/2010/02/25/university-of-the-pacific-most-dangerous-campus-in-the-nation/)</p>
<p>I am not swayed!</p>
<p>Shrinkrap- S goes to UOP. I would not call it the most dangerous campus in the nation. Granted Stockton is not a place I want to visit the school has been a wonderful experience for my underachiever, ADD and LD son. He hasn’t always had the best grades but I have been impressed with the knowledge he has learned. I don’t know how someone could break into one of those dorms and I think all the university apartments are pretty secure aside from Townhouse where my son lives.</p>