<p>So I am currently on the way home from visiting OSU and I am very curious as to how the students are. I would appreciate if a student or alum may tell me what you think. When I got to the school the first thing I noticed was, obviously, it’s large. Very large. So of course we got lost and couldn’t find any sort of welcome center. We parked somewhere near the stadium for a few minutes so we could get directions. I saw someone walking towards my direction so I went up to him and said “excuse me” but he kept walking so I thought he didn’t hear me, and I said it again. Then he glanced at me for a millisecond and kept walking and I said excuse me again and he literally ignored me completely and just walked on. Like, seriously? He saw me and heard me. That’s just rude. Then my mom tried to ask these 2 girls where the welcome center or Fisher college of business was. They were walking past and my mom asked them. One of them whispered something to the other girl, they both laughed, and then told my mom they didn’t know. I’m 99% sure they were students. Based on that, we pretty much had to find the college on our own and ended up driving around aimlessly for a while. I don’t know if we just happened to meet extremely rude people but I hope those types of people aren’t common at OSU because I imagined it as a really pleasant place. I’m not bitter, just kind of confused and wondering if this has happened to anyone else?</p>
<p>Oh wow, it sounds like you just happened to meet some uncommonly rude people. I will be going there this year, but my sister goes there currently and every time I’ve visited her everybody has been very friendly and happy to help me find my way around. Most people there are pretty nice and relaxed, I think you just had a bad experience! </p>
<p>I hope that your experience was an anomaly. My son and husband went last week to visit the school. We are out of state and it was a long drive–over 500 miles. They had a great experience with the students and folks on campus. Accepted to the Fisher as well and will attend. The people and the numbers (fisher is 18th for undergrad business in US New & World Report rankings) made the decision easy for him. I was concerned that it was too big. Someone recently told me, though, that you can make a big school small but you can never make a small school big. We visited many colleges and they found OSU to be very friendly. </p>
<p>We’ve been there a couple times to visit and didn’t have any problems. Anyone we asked a question to was friendly. </p>
<p>I think you had bad luck! We got lost and were helped by very friendly people. We were especially impressed when we stopped in the business school with no appt and one of the staffers spent 45 minutes talking with us. You will find every kind of person at a school this large, but for the most part OSU has down-to-earth, friendly students.</p>
<p>OSU was not the first choice I had for my D. Thought it would be too big, rude etc. Visited in September and January and the students, community, everyone couldn’t have been nicer. Questions easily answered. I believe you talked to the rare person on campus. </p>
<p>About two years ago, a friend and I went up to OSU to attend a huge political rally. Seems like half the campus was also in attendance, and there were lengthy delays in getting seated, so we had many hours of being up close to OSU students as we waited in the huge crowd. Being that my friend and I are middle aged, I was not sure how we would be treated by the students. However, it was a delightful experience. The students could not have been nicer, helped us find our way, and answered all of our questions about the campus. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about the one or three rude students you met while on campus. Instead, focus on whether or not OSU is the best school for you. How else was your experience? What was it like to sit in on classes? Were they rigorous? Well attended? Did the students seem engaged? Were the instructors prepared? How do you feel about being taught primarily by grad students for your first two years? How do you feel about paying the amount of tuition you’ll be required to pay? </p>
<p>In other words, three students blowing you off isn’t really a big deal. It’s not going to make or break your educational experience. </p>
<p>Yeah, there are rude people at OSU. There are 40,000 undergraduate students, after all, so some of them are bound to be rude, and in a large anonymous environment, they feel they can get away with it. </p>
<p>I just finished my freshman year at Ohio State, and I have to say I completely agree with adjunctified. While I understand the anger you must have felt with these rude people, choosing a college should not be about the few people you met. Look at the things that are truly important: cost, program, etc. College is a great time in your life, and you need to make sure you will be comfortable there. </p>
<p>Now, surprisingly students are a lot nicer than what you have dealt with. Sure there will be rude people that you run into, but there are over 50,000 students on campus there are a mixture of people surrounding you. It all depends on who you surround yourself with. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t conclude anything based on those three students. Maybe the boy didn’t speak English (not as uncommon as you think). Who knows. I am from a small school; I graduated with 30 students (and that’s pretty large for my area) So I was nervous about not being able to talk to people. Honestly it’s very easy.</p>
<p>A lot of people that attend Ohio State love it with a passion. That being said, they would be all to happy to help you, answer questions or show you around if they’re not crazy busy. Another thing that helps is getting involved. Student orgs let you meet a lot of people and develop friendships you wouldn’t have otherwise. You can make Ohio State small. It gets easier once you’ve been there for a few weeks. You find your niche and then it’s easy peesy lemon squeasy. Kill 'em with kindness. If you are open and approachable, people will talk, just give it time. </p>
<p>Good luck!!
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<p>As candice stated, we have 60k+ students on campus. Of course you’re going to have your rude ones out of the bunch! Sorry you happened to find them! Usually if someone ask me where something is, I’ll put out my OSU Mobile app, and show them where they are and how to get there. BTW, if you do come to OSU, download the app!!! It’ll be your friend until you learn where everything is!</p>
<p>As far as size, OSU is huge, however, I seem to see the same people around campus a lot! Most of my classes are right on central campus, so I’m not having to walk all over the place to get to classes. Once you learn where everything is, you’ll learn to set your schedule up to where your classes will be close, and in reasonable distance for the time you have to get there! Just don’t do like I did my freshman year and set up a class at the Gateway Theater, then the next one in Baker Systems with less than 10 minutes time to get there!</p>
<p>From my experience as someone who doesn’t actually go to the school (boyfriend started there this fall, been visiting almost every weekend since), everyone seems extremely friendly. I mean yeah, there are a couple of people on his floor who I don’t think I would get along with if I were to get to know them better, but for the most part everyone is very, very nice. I have indeed asked for directions a couple of times (like you said, the place is massive), and I’ve never gotten anything other than a helpful response. So I think you must have just had a bad experience sadly</p>