Why is Ohio University never discussed here?

[Anonymous]

They have the special Honors Tutorial College, where as much as your entire degree program can be taken in the form of one-on-one or two-on-one tutorials with a professor. No gen Ed requirements other than a single writing class and no prerequisites across the university. Seems like a very unique experience for a smart student who prioritizes their education and who intends on going to grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They have the special Honors Tutorial College, where as much as your entire degree program can be taken in the form of one-on-one or two-on-one tutorials with a professor. No gen Ed requirements other than a single writing class and no prerequisites across the university. Seems like a very unique experience for a smart student who prioritizes their education and who intends on going to grad school.

I know a kid who did this. If I recall, he got free tuition, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have the special Honors Tutorial College, where as much as your entire degree program can be taken in the form of one-on-one or two-on-one tutorials with a professor. No gen Ed requirements other than a single writing class and no prerequisites across the university. Seems like a very unique experience for a smart student who prioritizes their education and who intends on going to grad school.

I know a kid who did this. If I recall, he got free tuition, too.

In state?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They have the special Honors Tutorial College, where as much as your entire degree program can be taken in the form of one-on-one or two-on-one tutorials with a professor. No gen Ed requirements other than a single writing class and no prerequisites across the university. Seems like a very unique experience for a smart student who prioritizes their education and who intends on going to grad school.

I know a kid who did this. If I recall, he got free tuition, too.

In state?

Nope, out of state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohio native here. OU pulls mostly from OH, WV and western PA. But it’s a beautiful campus and setting especially for someone who wants to be in a place that’s just about the school. The surrounding areas are beautiful but isolated and really economically depressed and sometimes meth-y until you get down towards Gallipolis or Parkersburg or over to Wheeling, where there’s academics and old family money and doctor/lawyer types.

All of the kids I know who have gone there have gone on to strong careers or competitive grad schools. It would be a good place for a B+ or A- HS student to really kill it for grad school applications.

Interesting. I grew up in Indiana and no one ever really went there. Dayton and Miami, yes. But OU, no. So the bolded makes sense.

[Anonymous]

I knew some top tier faculty from great programs who ended up teaching there. The glut of PhDs is of course what makes this possible.

[Anonymous]

Pretty campus
Very depressed area. Appalachia.
Party school
Halloween is crazy
Good journalism school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a good question. There are a bunch of schools in Ohio that I think are decent but I know nothing about - Ohio, Miami, Denison, Kenyon, Wooster, probably missing one or two more (Oberlin is its own animal and has been discussed plenty).

Kenyon, Denison, Miami and OU deserve way more attention than they get. These are fantastic schools for nice, well adjusted kids with good but not sterling grades who want to get a great education and don’t want to pay $90l per year. For liberal arts colleges, Kenyon and Denison are the very best possible schools where you can get $25k (other than perhaps Grinnell but Grinnell is super, crazy woke and Kenyon and Denison are not). The Kenyon and Denison campuses are both drop dead gorgeous and in the cutest towns, both near Columbus.

Miami and OU also both have gorgeous campus. Central Ohio with its rolling hills is one of the nicest parts of the US. These are small universities. Mostly Ohio kids but I’d send my kids to Miami or OU before Ohio State. Miami and OU are nice sized colleges where your kid will be in classes of 20-30 kids. OSU is a factory of 60,000 students where you kid will be in classes with 350 students.

Check them out. You will be happy you did.

Have you done a price check recently?
Kenyon $91,010
Denison $88,400

Didn't look at the others, but they are both state supported, so probably much less. My kid committed to one of these and is very excited.

[Anonymous]

No better than Nova

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a good question. There are a bunch of schools in Ohio that I think are decent but I know nothing about - Ohio, Miami, Denison, Kenyon, Wooster, probably missing one or two more (Oberlin is its own animal and has been discussed plenty).

Kenyon, Denison, Miami and OU deserve way more attention than they get. These are fantastic schools for nice, well adjusted kids with good but not sterling grades who want to get a great education and don’t want to pay $90l per year. For liberal arts colleges, Kenyon and Denison are the very best possible schools where you can get $25k (other than perhaps Grinnell but Grinnell is super, crazy woke and Kenyon and Denison are not). The Kenyon and Denison campuses are both drop dead gorgeous and in the cutest towns, both near Columbus.

Miami and OU also both have gorgeous campus. Central Ohio with its rolling hills is one of the nicest parts of the US. These are small universities. Mostly Ohio kids but I’d send my kids to Miami or OU before Ohio State. Miami and OU are nice sized colleges where your kid will be in classes of 20-30 kids. OSU is a factory of 60,000 students where you kid will be in classes with 350 students.

Check them out. You will be happy you did.

Have you done a price check recently?
Kenyon $91,010
Denison $88,400

Didn't look at the others, but they are both state supported, so probably much less. My kid committed to one of these and is very excited.

Yes but Kenyon and Denison give everyone at least $25k. It’s automatic at Dension if you are from Ohio or a Midwest state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We talk about Ohio State a lot, but not Ohio U. Anyone have any experience with this school?

Why should it? It's DCUM.

Ohio State is a widely known Big 10 school,
and is ranked in the top 50.

Ohio U? Really?

[Anonymous]

Daniel Keyes, the author of "Flowers For Algernon", was a professor there. That's about all I know of the place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty campus
Very depressed area. Appalachia.
Party school
Halloween is crazy
Good journalism school

Definitely a party school !

Does Ohio U. still have the "weekend for moms" ? Weirdest thing that I have ever read about a college or university.

[Anonymous]

My friends that have gone to OU have turned out great. OU has a nice town. And club hockey is huge.

I'm from PA and traditionally from out area it gets the kids that didn't get into Penn State or Miami.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a good question. There are a bunch of schools in Ohio that I think are decent but I know nothing about - Ohio, Miami, Denison, Kenyon, Wooster, probably missing one or two more (Oberlin is its own animal and has been discussed plenty).

Kenyon, Denison, Miami and OU deserve way more attention than they get. These are fantastic schools for nice, well adjusted kids with good but not sterling grades who want to get a great education and don’t want to pay $90l per year. For liberal arts colleges, Kenyon and Denison are the very best possible schools where you can get $25k (other than perhaps Grinnell but Grinnell is super, crazy woke and Kenyon and Denison are not). The Kenyon and Denison campuses are both drop dead gorgeous and in the cutest towns, both near Columbus.

Miami and OU also both have gorgeous campus. Central Ohio with its rolling hills is one of the nicest parts of the US. These are small universities. Mostly Ohio kids but I’d send my kids to Miami or OU before Ohio State. Miami and OU are nice sized colleges where your kid will be in classes of 20-30 kids. OSU is a factory of 60,000 students where you kid will be in classes with 350 students.

Check them out. You will be happy you did.

Have you done a price check recently?
Kenyon $91,010
Denison $88,400

Didn't look at the others, but they are both state supported, so probably much less. My kid committed to one of these and is very excited.

Yes but Kenyon and Denison give everyone at least $25k. It’s automatic at Dension if you are from Ohio or a Midwest state.

Automatic at Kenyon only for Ohio residents.