OSU Financial Aid - Sucks?

cypresspat
Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:39:45 +0000

@saillakeerie You are very correct about the increased number of Ohio high stats kids choosing tOSU. Mine is about to be one of them. Our school had a meeting for all of the senior parents of athletes a couple of days ago. An oddly large number of the top 30 kids academically happen to be varsity athletes this year (15 of them), so this was a chance for a bunch of parents of high stats seniors to be in the same room. Rare opportunity.

We parents got to talking (our kids have been in the same classes for years) about the college visits over the summer. Every kid and parent visited a large swath of schools. tOSU nailed their tour and delighted all. We took a straw poll and every single kid applying to tOSU EA. Most are either 1) applying to top 20 school ED, but will go to OSU if that fails, or, 2) OSU is their #1 and only app. A couple of the athletes were being recruited, but didn’t like any of the colleges recruiting them. So, likely at least 10 of those 15 kids will go to tOSU.

We live in a fairly affluent suburb and there are many unexpectedly happy senior-parent wallets here. Depending on majors chosen, with their stats some of the kids will end up paying $2k in tuition. My son has one of those targeted majors and I actually would feel guilty paying that little. I don’t mean for that be as arrogant as I am sure it reads - it is just when you’ve prepared yourself for a tuition bill of $30k+, and when you know that there are lots of kids across the state trying to figure out how to pay for any tuition at all, a $2k tuition bill seems ridiculously low.