<p>Shrinkrap, my dad is an aerospace engineer and active AIAA member; he had recommended SLO to my son as a good engineering option. Lovely area, too.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input! SLO is like “HYPSM”, all in one, to my son. May kids he really respects are there. I’m just not sure he knows what he’s getting in to.</p>
<p>It has become increasingly harder to get into SLO over the last several years. Great school!</p>
<p>thanks everyone for all of this great information! - anything new from anyone?</p>
<p>S submitted his Oregon State application last…Wednesday? Thursday? I think maybe Thursday.</p>
<p>He came in after I’d gone to bed last night and said, “I think I just got admitted to OSU.” Sure enough, he has an email from OSU admissions congratulating him. And the email isn’t even from yesterday–it’s from Tuesday. Super fast decision! I had him log in to the school admissions site just to be sure (“trust, but verify”), and it definitely says “admitted” so…whew. What a good feeling! </p>
<p>Still waiting to hear from Southern Oregon but the "what if"ing is now considerably reduced and I am enormously glad for that.</p>
<p>My son applied to Oregon State last month and was accepted in less than 2 weeks. When we visited the school, the admissions person we met with said that they love B students. I think it’s an interesting school with a good vibe. Too bad there isn’t much action on the school’s CC discussion board.</p>
<p>One of my sons is a senior at OSU this year in Engineering.</p>
<p>We scheduled a vist a month or so in advance and we showed up to a personalized welcome sign welcoming us from Montana. Packets had my sons names on them and the tour guide gave them a tour with only 5 other visitors. The aid package was full EFC met with only stafford loans to my son and the rest in grants and scholarships. It has been consistent over the 4 years</p>
<p>It was first class. He has really enjoyed his experience there and in some ways I think it is superior to the top 20 private school my other son goes to for engineering as well.</p>
<p>The admin has been great to deal with and we also learned that the student health center is first class.</p>
<p>Corvallis is a very nice small town and they skip over to the coast fairly frequently</p>
<p>Corvallis is the rather boring ‘aka nice and safe’ valley suburbia that one would be better off with a car me thinks. I think PDX and southern Oregon have better transportation and cooler places to live. Oregonians are generally really nice and rather helpful people and heard that about OSU which helps in getting out w/i 2 1/2 Years max for a transfer which is important. </p>
<p>The technology, grants, bonds and investments in OSU has increased in a very progressive manner especially over the last decade so great for A/B borderline STEM students. </p>
<p>If they develop and expand their Env Sci or Nature Conservation Land Management GIS/GPS type program with sholarships or in/out state i lived in Or. and would claim intent to stay and if helped me set me up right with state employment. I’d way rather do something like that at their BEND campus in the cascade mountains which is much prettier but colder too. Great place but the Napa Valley Californains that live there do keep the housing market higher than market and purposely keep public transportation low so you would deff need a crazy 4 x 4 up there if wanted to get around Oregon style. </p>
<p>OSU sciences and tech stuff is strong and majority of the normal subjects are solid for a state school that have curriculums that rivals others in the whole western US. I’d choose SLO over it but would choose OSU over the majority of ASU’s, WSU’s, MSU’s, and CSU’s.</p>
<p>Southern california boy #1 headed there this fall in Chemical Engineering. Special dorm floor for engineering majors with resident assist. prof advisor nearby. Got in to lesser UC’s but did not want to spend double - technology surrounds means practical, hands on materials science. Good access by rail to SF and moderate climate means no complaints from fair weather fella. Looking for weekend snowboarding trips this fall.</p>
<p>Cost structure for UC’s means many students looking for State options for first two years even if they want a UC degree.</p>
<p>That’s why getting into SLO really requires the same scholarship as top UC entrants now - 3.9 avg means you have to be strong academically AND choose your major carefully. Show Something that means you are committed / prepared / have done work or extracurricular in area of interest. Internships and leadership before you can get in for hot majors like Bioengineering, etc. There are a few unusual majors in agriculture that are undersubscribed and if you apply for that major, the avg gpa goes down - but you can’t switch colleges, and shifting majors isn’t pro forma.</p>
<p>Still waiting Southern Oregon, Santa Cruz, Long Beach and University of Idaho.DD was excepted into safties Sonoma and Chico. Tech Theater Major and hoping for some WUE at Southern Oregon.</p>
<p>I love hearing about the OSU accptance. DD best friend a 4.0 with many options choose OSU for Pharmaceuticals major. Go Ducks</p>
<p>Just wanted to add University of Hawaii in Manoa (great climate, some outstanding departments & nice surf).
Chaminade is also a nice little school, though it seems they have a lot of on-line courses (not sure if it’s only for the masters program that so much is on-line).</p>
<p>Oregon State is working hard to establish itself as a great place for engineering. Amazing how quickly they are responding to your kids–congrats on their acceptances! (FWIW, their mascot is the beaver–their rival U of O where I got my BA is the duck.)</p>
<p>Sorry got them mixed up again. Sister-in-law went UO. Brother-in-Law went to and teaches at OSU.</p>
<p>Great family rival.</p>
<p>S got his acceptance from Southern Oregon today; it included the happy news that he is awarded a Provost Scholarship and On-Campus Housing Scholarship.</p>
<p>So that’s that–he was admitted to both of the schools he applied to, and while I’ve asked him to spend the next few days carefully considering the relative advantages of each school, I know that SOU is his first choice. Looks like he will be a Raider!</p>
<p>Congrats CHS2011MOM and thanks again for your helpful “visit report.” I can’t remember if you are instate for Oregon? Our son received acceptance about 6 weeks ago and a letter with the Honor’s College acceptance sometime last week. Still have not heard anything on Scholarships. I have to think that we at least qualify for the WUE. We really need to go on an Oregon road trip but I hesitate to schedule it until I hear something about scholarships.
I just have a gut feeling that son will really like it there and we really need some $$$ from them to make it work OOS. Hopefully, they are just slower for OOS kids.</p>
<p>digitalmom, we are Oregon residents. Hope you hear from them soon and that you get a chance to visit.</p>
<p>Big relief. </p>
<p>Son – an academic problem child – just got his acceptance to University of Montana. Although he’s in at his safety, it’s a school that doesn’t interest him or me, so we’re treating this as his first real acceptance. Two more to go. But it’s so GOOD to know he’ll have at least one good option he’s excited about!</p>
<p>Evergreen State, WA
Whittier College, CA</p>
<p>My son is a senior at the University of Denver. A neighbor’s son applied because of my son’s experience there, and when he visited the Daniels Business School knocked his socks off! He received a nice phone call this week…his mom thinks his mind is made up…he has two other acceptances and has two more applications pending, but this was his favorite after his visit.</p>
<p>Son received admittance to Sonoma and submitted his last (16th!) app today. Dropped the USC idea.</p>
<p>16 aps?!? Poor Shrinkrap son… and poor Shrinkrap!</p>