<p>Out of state transfer here to echo a lot of what has been said.</p>
<p>The incoming freshman class is almost 20% OOS, and the school is looking to add more-out-of-staters in the coming years. Yes, the vast majority of people you meet will be from Ohio, but they don’t seem to label you as being an out of stater. There are many opportunities to meet other OOS students at Ohio State, as well. A huge number of them join Greek life, and the OOS student group ‘Buckeyes Beyond Ohio’ holds events all throughout the year for you to meet students from your region and beyond. In general, when you tell people you are from somewhere other than Ohio they are interested to hear what made you chose Ohio State. Ohioans are very proud and welcoming. This can be very different from other public schools: at Texas, anyone not from their definition of the south is a ‘Yankee’ and at Wisconsin anyone from the coasts is a ‘Coastie.’</p>