Is Ohio State a safety for me?

MYOS1634
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 17:12:16 +0000

Have you run the NPC’s and made sure these are all affordable? Have you discussed budget with your parents and received confirmation all of these are within budget as is, or, if you need financial aid, that you’re applying to all the competitive scholarships you can? (If you need scholarships to attend any of these universities, you’ll need to apply to more, since scholarships are competitive and you can’t know whether you’ll get one.)

I’d consider that tOSU is a match.
If you want another large public university with football, look into UIndiana, Michigan State, Pitt, or Penn State. Pitt and Penn State aren’t generous at all with merit (you wouldn’t get any at Pitt, since they want super high test scores, and Penn State is stingy, only promising $4,500 minimum for Schreyer scholars, who are selected without regard to test scores - however, Schreyer is one of the best Honors Colleges in the nation.) Michigan State is pretty generous and their honors college is good.
UIowa or Iowa State would be good safeties too and they have good merit.

Applying to 2-3 schools only seems very risky to me - especially since at all these schools, merit is competitive and since you’re OOS you won’t get any financial aid. You may well get in but not be able to afford them.