Ohio State - what are we missing?

[Anonymous]

It’s in Ohio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ahem. I'm sure you meant THE Ohio State.

Have a couple of friends with kids there, they love it. We did a brief self-tour while on a big loop through the Midwest. Wow - Student Union clearly shows the $$ pouring back in from athletics. Agree that the campus is quite nice. Made a joke at the tour station about visiting their rival school and hoo-boy! about 8 people in earshot visibly bristled. The overall athletic, hyper-sports-competitive vibe did not fit my kid.

Ultimately, when your kid can get into your in-state public land-grant university, and that university is higher ranked than the surrounding states' land-grant universities, why would you pay more money to go to a lower ranked school? It may be worth looking at them if you think you can get significant merit aid, or they have a unique specialty program, but otherwise you have a better value closer to home.

OP here. Thanks for the thoughtful answer. Our in-state is Maryland which is comparable to OSU academically. But our daughter doesn’t love it and based on what we’ve heard from kids with comparable stats we think she might qualify for enough aid to make it similar in cost. Plus we really think she’d benefit from going away. College Park is quite close and we worry that she’d come home at the first sign of struggle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s in Ohio.

You don’t miss much.

[Anonymous]

It’s a good school if you like 500 students in your class and a high faculty to student ratio,

[Anonymous]

Would your DD be able to get into Miami University?

I think of The OSU as a step below UMD for most programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a good school if you like 500 students in your class and a high faculty to student ratio,

Doesn’t appear to be very different from other Big10 schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would your DD be able to get into Miami University?

I think of The OSU as a step below UMD for most programs.

I think so. 3.86u/4.6w/1400.

[Anonymous]

I find Michigan people more pretentious in terms of pretending their state school is higher regarded (outside of Ann Arbor) than it actually is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find Michigan people more pretentious in terms of pretending their state school is higher regarded (outside of Ann Arbor) than it actually is.

I’m not a Michigan alum, but will say it’s an absolutely excellent school. If you don’t realize that, you don’t know much about universities.

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Anonymous wrote:I find Michigan people more pretentious in terms of pretending their state school is higher regarded (outside of Ann Arbor) than it actually is.

I’m not a Michigan alum, but will say it’s an absolutely excellent school. If you don’t realize that, you don’t know much about universities.

LOL. I’m sure I know far more about national universities than you do.

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Anonymous wrote:Would your DD be able to get into Miami University?

I think of The OSU as a step below UMD for most programs.

I think so. 3.86u/4.6w/1400.

If your DD liked The OSU - and you think $ will come in to make it close to cost for Maryland - check out Miami University (In Oxford OH). My friends who went there were bright, down to earth, very successful professionally. They LOVED their undergrad experience - but in a healthy not all about football way.

Another school to consider.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all. Not hearing anything beyond the standard big school liabilities.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find Michigan people more pretentious in terms of pretending their state school is higher regarded (outside of Ann Arbor) than it actually is.

I’m not a Michigan alum, but will say it’s an absolutely excellent school. If you don’t realize that, you don’t know much about universities.

LOL. I’m sure I know far more about national universities than you do.

My husband has worked in higher ed for 15 years and has personal relationships with deans at Harvard, UNC, Michigan, etc.

[Anonymous]

The sun literally never shines there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The sun literally never shines there.

It’s the shithole Midwest. Even the sun avoids that region of the US.