@soyunchico The Admissons website lists 10 criteria for “holistic” review of prospective freshman applicants and “interest” is NOT listed as a criteria. Also, the Common Data Set for Ohio State explicitly says the school does NOT consider interest of an applicant. Personally I don’t think showing interest matters to them. How do you know that interest is considered? If indeed interest is now becoming a factor in admissions, then Ohio state should add “interest” as one of the criteria under the list of holistic factors it says it considers for admissions, and it should revise the common dataset to reflect that.