My ds is a freshman this year at OSU. He was right at a 28 for ACT (the minimum last year), with a very strong GPA, honors and APs classes, upper 15% in a class over 600 for class rank, and he did not get the Buckeye. Applicants were so competitive, it went way higher than base requirements. From many posts last year, we found we were not alone in our disappointment. If you are at minimum requirement in any of the criteria just be prepared that it may not come through depending how strong the applying class is. We were led to believe that at long as you hit the benchmarks, you had a good shot. The people posting they were awarded the Buckeye were much higher than the minimum. Unfortunately, he was completely sold on OSU from the beginning, so we are painfully paying OOS tuition. Fwiw, lack of class rank didn’t appear to be an issue from former posters.