Can someone chance me for Regular Decision (submitted application on 01/03/2020)?
GPA: UW3.55/W3.90 (first 3 years)
Senior mid-year GPA: UW3.65/W4.25
SAT: 1370 (670M, 700E)
8 APs, 6 Honors and 2 DEs classes
Lots of extracurricular activities and leaderships
Strong letters of recommendation
OOS
Major: Biology
Accepted about two weeks ago, but I’m still waiting on the Morrill Scholarship notification.
I know that they only start consideration for the Morrill after acceptance, but does anyone know the typical turnaround time for a scholarship decision?
Affordability for OSU is a big issue for me and I wanted to get the scholarship decision before I heard back from my ED2 school, otherwise OSU may not be an option for me any longer.
I also got my decision (relatively) late in the EA rolling notification. Does anyone know if this affects my chances of getting a scholarship (like if they’ve already accepted too many from their quota this late)?
Thanks in advance!
@waverider28 You May want to try posing your question in the Morrill Scholarship thread. Just scroll down and you’ll see the discussions.
Can anyone chance me?
Major: Computer Info Systems
ACT 26
GPA: 3.7
Tons of ECs like FRC for 3 years, president of women in engineering, vice president of NHS, theater, choir, swim, xc, track and tons more.
Any advice is great because i have been freaking out! thanks!
also 3 Honors and 1 AP (that’s all my school offers)
Any idea what time tomorrow to expect this final wave of offers?
@nomnom24 they usually start around 4:15-4:30ish. It is rumored if you hear between then and 5 that it is most likeley a denial or deferral I am not sure if that is fact but based off of this thread it seems like it might be true. Decisions are released until 10 pm I believe, but if you applied ea then you know you have to hear back by the end of tomorrow’s wave
I am so concerned that they didn’t get to read all the EA apps and will defer just because they didn’t get to them yet
Just for a point of reference:
I received my EA decision at 11:30pm on 12/13/19. I was unfortunately deferred. I am an out of state applicant which might make a small difference for acceptance chance, I also wanted to go into health sciences which I know is very competitive. I have a 1230 SAT, 26 ACT, 4.02 weighted GPA (3.85 unweighted), 11 honors classes throughout high school (on a 4 point scale), 7 AP classes taken (including Statistics, World History, Biology, English Language, Spanish, Calculus AB, and Environment Science), plus VP of Spanish Honor Society, National Honor Society member, Science Honor Society member, played in the pit for school musical, Community service club member, Varsity swim captain all four years, Student council and class council member, plus more. I just wanted to give you all a point of reference.
Good luck during the admissions process!
Go bucks!
How long does it take to hear back from OSU? I applied rolling admissions 12/05. 34 ACT and 4.0 GPA with solid extracurriculars. Should I be hearing soon or will it be another month or two?
has anyone received national buckeye?? and if yes, can you please share when?
@ainshouk
There is a scholarship thread here…
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ohio-state-university-columbus/2167348-scholarship-and-financial-aid-package-class-2024-p3.html
I believe a couple of people have heard back on merit, but it seems like they have not yet released most of the merit packages.
Does anyone know what percent of applicants who initially get deferred actually wind up getting accepted?
Here we are again…Friday…why is the theme from Jeopardy playing in my head on repeat 
This wait was the most brutal…My daughter already received acceptances to Indiana (Kelley), UT (Halsam), Umass (Isenberg), Alabama, Auburn, Penn State, Waiting on OSU, Northeastern, UMD, Clemson, Deferred UGA. Visited most of the southern schools but still have to see Indiana, Penn State, OSU, UMD, and UT. This process is very frustrating because we are running out of time to actually tour these schools. We are in MA so we have to book flight and between my daughters busy schedule and our busy schedule it is difficult. Not a lot of time to make a life altering and very expensive decision. Not to mention secure housing. Also the stress of not knowing. I know we should be grateful she has some very, very good options so I don’t want to sound like Im complaining or ungrateful but the process is very frustrating. I can’t imagine what its like for kids who apply late.
On another note, and a little off topic anyone have any pros or cons to any of the above mentioned schools? How is a 17 year old kids supposed to make a potentially 250K decision?
I’m always a bit confused if deferred is the same as waitlist. I know some schools first defer then do waitlists but it seems to vary school to school.
The Common Data Set from this year for OSU shows about 5800 were offered spot on wait list. About 1500 accepted and only about 150 were admitted. Not good stats.
how can they be admitted when they haven’t given out all the acceptances yet?
@terps1990 @TheFrenchChef
AFAIK, there are no published stats for acceptance rate of deferred students. At OSU, deferral is different from waitlist. A deferred student becomes just like an RD applicant. The deferred student will get a decision at some point…accepted, denied, or waitlist. So, you can go from deferred to waitlisted.
@TheFrenchChef Deferred means they deferred making a decision on an early action application and will review it in regular decision. Waitlist means the applicant is on a waitlist and once all decisions have been made (early action and regular decision) and applicants commit, there is a chance they might get in off the waitlist. So generally deferred is “better” than waitlist as there is still a chance during regular decisions.
@Finalchildof3
My D19 applied to some of those same schools last year. What it came down to with her was, where did she want to spend the next 4 years of her life. Basically, campus life. She had not visited Ohio State or Clemson prior to application, so we visited those when she was accepted. As we were driving away from Clemson, she made her decision. She’s a freshman at Ohio State now. She was on the later side for housing and ended up in an older dorm, with no AC. It was miserably hot the first few weeks, but she survived.
For D20, we’re also trying to figure out revisits, while still waiting for some decisions, so planning revisit days for later in March, in case future decisions cause a school to drop from the list.
We’re also from MA. Southwest flies direct from Boston to Columbus and no change fees.
@momzilla2D Thank you for your reply. Traveling directly from Boston to Columbus is one of the big reasons OSU is high on MY list. I don’t think these kids truly understand traveling at the holidays, changing planes and having to take a two hour bus ride just to get to an airport. Plus my daughter is convinced she will not get into OSU, she applied as a finance major but hopefully we will know by today. As a mom, I just want to plan our travel, its like a monkey on my back right now.