Admissions Discussion/Decisions - Class of 2024

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Admitted 11/19 into pre-nursing (OOS)
ACT: 32
GPA: 3.83, weighted 4.24
6 AP classes, a good amount of extracurriculars but only one (new) leadership position. I do best buddies, literary magazine, hospital volunteering and I work at a summer camp during the summer. I am also in 2 honor societies. Average letters of recommendation, but good common app essay.

I’m wondering how long it should take to hear back about scholarship money? And the honors program? I applied to the honors program late, about a week ago.

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Go Bucks!!

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@RaLaSrSa @TheVulcan Was the honors decision sent to personal or buckeye email?

In addition, I paid my acceptance fee and the portal updated saying that additional information would be mailed to me to continue the enrollment process and this was about 2 1/2 weeks ago. Anyone have any info on this?

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@music394: Personal.

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Personal email. How do you access buckeye email? I keep getting “username not found” when I tried to use .#@buckeyemail.osu.edu as the login.

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Got some weird error when trying to log into portal. Maybe the server is down

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The portal doesn’t open until 10 or 11 am on Sundays.

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My daughter applied in late October - received acceptance on Friday, Nov 15, and was notified of Morrill Scholarship (full tuition scholarship!!!) on Friday, Dec 6th. In-state biology major, 4.0 unweighted GPA, ACT 31 (36 in reading), 6 or 7 APs, a few ECs but lots of quality volunteer work (i.e. not hours required for school). Waiting to hear about application to Scholars program but the letter she received yesterday asked her to rank her choices for a decision that would be made in March/April. We’re thrilled! A great Christmas present! Good luck to all who are waiting!

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@AAmyA398
Congratulations to your daughter! Very exciting!!

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@AAmyA398 Congrats! That’s amazing!

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Got my Honors acceptance two days ago!

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Congratulations to all who get into honor programs. What an exciting journey for kids to begin at OSU!!!

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Thanks, @gobuckeyeoc, it is nice to hear back on honors, but need to hear back on merit before OSU’s line in the spreadsheet (one of 15) is complete :neutral:

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@TheVulcan With your son’s stats, he appears to be in the super elite category. But…(forgive the presumption) the schools where he would be surrounded by appropriate peers are those which are all about financial aid, not merit? My son is not in your’s league…and I even found it frustrating to live in the upper middle class donut. Your son wanting CS doesn’t help much. I know you know that he would fit right in at MIT or CalTech. But that pesky tuition is a bit problematic.

I feel for you and am wishing you luck.

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Thank you for the well wishes @cypresspat!:slight_smile:

You hit the nail right on the head.

I do not know what stresses me out more, MIT/Caltech early decisions coming out this Saturday, or the numbers their NPCs are showing us…

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The 12/2 admissions report is out, and it shows that there were NO additional admits last week.

date of report. 2019. 2020
11/18/19. 5,225. 5,441
11/25/19. 5,231. 7,503
12/2/19. 5,236. 7,503
12/9/19. 5,237. 7,503

IMO There’s a good chance there will be another round of decisions released this Friday 12/13. Last year there was a round released on Friday 12/14.

http://oesar.osu.edu/pdf/admissions/comp&summ_SIS.pdf

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@TheVulcan My son OSU class of 2022 had similar stats to yours. We, too, were looking at MIT, etc. but fell into the dreaded donut hole. DS chose OSU and has no regrets. He is definitely challenged and has lots of opportunities. Did your son apply for Eminence? Hope he gets some good merit $$. We have been more than pleased with OSU. And the football is the (very sweet) icing on the cake!

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@browniesundae, college sports are actually a negative indicator for DS :slight_smile:

Applying for Eminence didn’t feel at all likely to be productive, as he is not the activist type these scholarships tend to seek out. So the best we can hope for at OSU is about $30/K net cost if he gets National Buckeye and Maximus.

Does your son major in CS?

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@TheVulcan Most would say that we are very lucky in that our son made this super easy for us. Our oldest went to tOSU (and will graduate from a top 5 business school in May and has had his IB job lined up since last August, I share to make you know that non-MIT/CalTech is not a death sentence). S20’s stats put him in the 50/50 range for an Ivy, and his father and I were enchanted. And so was he, until he saw tOSU. He came home that night and no other school mattered, and he hasn’t wavered since. But while most people would tell us to shut the heck up and sit down, we kept urging him to reconsider the Ivy and one other reach school. Nope. Not gonna happen.

But your son is different. He’s off the charts and will probably only have a few true peers at any school other than MIT or CalTech. Even someplace like Ga Tech or Michigan will have many kids in his league, but will be mixed among a lot of mere mortals.

The best scenario is what we lucked into … a kid who insists upon going to his financial and academic safety. I don’t think that happens a lot around here. And while we were prepared to shell out the fortune the other schools were going to cost, it was an alarming number. But that didn’t prevent our stupidity. We persisted.

While I don’t want your son’s dreams to be crushed…I don’t want YOUR dreams to be crushed, either.

I will share a couple pearls of wisdom from our little prince. Maybe they will help? When we were trying to convince him to apply to Cornell, he again listed the 10,000 reasons that an engineering degree from OSU is just as good, he then said ‘ya know, $75k is a lot of pressure on me every year to like Cornell. I think I will have enough pressure on me In Engineering, don’t you think?’

Dang it, that’s a good point.

During a follow-up dinner conversation, because we are idiots, we gently emphasized how a degree from there will open doors for him. His response was ‘I think I will be good enough to open my own doors.’ While that could be from the voice of a naive 17 year old, it also could be his confidence coming out. Shut us up pretty quick, that’s for sure. Haven’t mentioned any of this since. He’s going to tOSU.

I am not sure what to wish for you. Maybe the guardian angel who hung out at our house for the past few months has moved to your house? I mean, is there a financial safety for him that he likes? (I am a bit afraid to ask).

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@TheVulcan My son is physics and astrophysics. He LOVES the sports. I am no expert, but I think your son has a good chance for National Buckeye and Maximus. Fingers crossed. Keep us posted. I know the wait is long and unpredictable. Luckily, when we were going through this process we were kind of blissfully unaware of how it all worked (I wasn’t on CC then!) and DS applied to 13 schools so he was still very busy in early Dec.