OSU Financial Aid - Sucks?

saillakeerie
Sun, 07 Apr 2019 14:58:28 +0000

Schools offer what they need in aid to get the classes they want. If they don’t offer a lot of aid, they are comfortable they will either get you anyway or get other kids with similar backgrounds that they want in their classes. Some schools looking to improve their rankings offer a lot more aid to out of state kids.

President Drake has stated several times that he wants to decrease merit aid and increase need based aid. Since he took over, merit aid has been ratcheted down (what was $6k/year is now $3/k I believe for instance). Ohio State has become a popular option for a lot of high stats kids from strong suburban school districts in Ohio who often do not need any aid at all. Makes giving a lot of aid (particularly to out of state kids, less important). High cost surrounding states (PA and IL) make it less important as well.