Well I just checked and its a good thing that my son had already decided on University of Cincinnati for Engineering. “They regret to inform him that he is not eligible for admission to the Columbus campus and will receive a letter describing his options for admission to an alternate choice campus”. That’s what you get now from OSU with a 29 on ACT with all AP courses and Varsity athlete and other volunteering and clubs for the past however many years. I personally was upset when he was deferred and I know he was also. Thinking now that this is just the way it was meant to be (I usually don’t believe in that stuff). Thinking WOW, all the other schools he applied to he was accepted, one school (private) was willing to give him $27,000 a year in scholarship money. I could go on, but won’t. Still wishing good luck to others out there.
I’m sorry @momtwo and all others who were denied. We still say deferred over here but with all of you being denied and us having similar stats I’m expecting we will be the same.
Also denied. Not sure what they were looking for but we had moved on a while ago anyway.
You never know @osuhopeful2940, I think a lot may depend on the choice of degree too. We knew going in that Engineering would be one of the hardest to get into, but still never imagined a denial. Let us all know once you find out.
Just checked…denied also…Glad she had made her decision already. I wonder if there will be any accepted that were deferred? So far all I’ve seen here are denied and waitlisted and everyone she knows has been denied or waitlisted also who were deferred. Yet she knows someone who applied in early Feb with similar stats as her who was accepted in three weeks. oh well.
Denied as well… Pitt here I come!
Denied. Glad I got to wait another 3 months to get rejected instead of just getting rejected in January when I was deferred.
Can’t say for sure what ‘eligible’ actually is. 32 ACT, 3.7 denied as well. Seems like they could have told us this months ago.
@Nick50 Agreed. My son got into Case Western with big scholarship back in December and was just admitted to Wisconsin after being initially deferred. There were many other acceptances and denials along the way. OSU probably could have let us know back in December that they were’t interested despite the above average test scores, marching band abilities, and diversity offered by my URM son. It’s their loss.
Frankly, once it became apparent that National Buckeye (for which son exceeds listed criteria) was out of the question, so was OSU. As previously stated, I have an older child who is a graduate of OSU, but the way admissions has mishandled my most academically-oriented kid has tempered, for now, my previously great impressions of the school. I will probably not encourage my younger kids to apply here based on the way I feel we have been treated this year, nor will I encourage others in my area to do the same as I have been doing for some time.
I wonder what happened this year.
Last year we had a totally different experience.
tOSU was wonderful, communicative, organized.
Perhaps there was a flood of applications after the national championship this Fall,
and OSU was caught off guard.
My kid applied in September and was deferred in December; well before the CFB playoffs. He’s got four choices among schools ranked quite a bit higher than OSU in the USNews rankings despite being part of the URM group probably most underrepresented on campus at OSU (Hispanic). That said, his stats fall around the 75% percentile for OSU, which represented a high match for him and not a clear safety where denials often occur for yield protection purposes. His sister is a graduate which was noted on the application. The fact that his local admissions rep never replied to his inquiry regarding his deferral and the eventual post-March 31 denial notification were, really, quite disappointing and, in my mind, unacceptable. If you told me this past Thanksgiving that I’d ever post a disparaging word about OSU online I would not have believed you, but there you go. If he is going to be on the field marching at a Big Ten game, it will be as a Badger rather than a Buckeye.
OH resident from a very competitive high school, ACT 33, GPA U-3.45 W-4.08, Varsity athlete - denied for Columbus campus?? Cannot grasp it as a parent… Wondering who IS eligible to attend THE OSU?
I know of two boys at my sons Ohio HS that did get into OSU, one had a 27 and the other a 30 on their ACT. Not sure of their GPA, but not much more than my son has. I know one/30 is Engineering (as my son is and also his cousin). Just not sure what they are looking for either. I know they did have an overload of applicants but a 33 ACT not getting in, that is just pure crazy @SandyShellOcean. Where will your son be attending now?
@SandyShellOcean–out of state students apparently. It stinks. They’re off my high-stats kid’s list for next year.
@monae44 Can you give some general instructions on how you went about appealing your deferral? Who did you send it to, what info did you provide, etc.?