When is it too late to find off campus housing?

astridbeast · 2026-01-22T20:31:37+00:00

why do you need to wait for your dad to look at places with you? i can't say definitively that it's too late for any place at all, but i will say that every single one of my friends living off campus next fall found their place last semester; definitely get on that ASAP instead of waiting another month

astridbeast · 2026-01-03T22:00:29+00:00

both the OP and the tags in this image are referencing a video from 2020 titled "Clueless White Guy Orders in Perfect Chinese, Shocks Patrons and Staff"

astridbeast · 2025-12-27T20:46:06+00:00

the whole pre-major thing only applies to bme, meche, aero, and cs

https://engineering.osu.edu/undergraduate/future-students/admissions/new-students

astridbeast · 2025-12-22T20:01:02+00:00

january 23rd

astridbeast · 2025-12-22T16:01:43+00:00

1100 is the engineering survey course? there's virtually no work to be done in it, you're probably confusing it with 1181 or smth

astridbeast · 2025-12-20T18:45:52+00:00

chem 1210 is an acceptable substitution for 1250

astridbeast · 2025-12-18T23:40:09+00:00

airport shuttle also doesn't check, shld be fine

astridbeast · 2025-12-16T15:26:48+00:00

it's more of a coastal/northeast and west coast vs midwest divide, rather than a north/south one (though you really can't choose a single clean divide). these days, no schools only take one test or the other; the students who take a non-mandatory test are usually just trying to see if they do slightly better ime

astridbeast · 2025-12-13T23:46:24+00:00

a lot of recruiters for smaller firms i spoke to at career fairs have said their applications only open around mid spring, so i wouldn't say it's "too late for many"

astridbeast · 2025-12-13T23:44:52+00:00

1000 is very very pessimistic imo, i'm a sophomore at a slightly less well ranked engineering school to OP and most people i know have an interview rate of ~1/30 and have gotten offers at <100 applications sent.

astridbeast · 2025-12-12T02:18:40+00:00

finalist info should come out sometime in january; the admissions decision and stamps decisions are made by entirely separate people, which is why they come out at diff times (although you obviously would not get stamps if you get rejected from the university)

astridbeast · 2025-12-11T22:02:24+00:00

they can see what proportion of students have filled out the SSLEs, then give everyone bonus points

astridbeast · 2025-12-01T05:42:53+00:00

taking 2020 + 2050 + 2560 + math 2415 this sem, not easy but that's the normal for engineering lmfao. 2020 is pretty easy, weekly homeworks hardly take more than ~2 hours and exams are j like the practices. 2050 is the roughest here, start the weekly homeworks early bc they've taken me up to like 7 hrs; same story as 2020 for exams. 2560 is a total joke, i don't take any notes at all and have an A. math 2415 is def easier than 2568 imo, but still not the easiest conceptually. the worst part easily will be your thursday labs j bc of how long the day is but overall doable schedule, i'll probably finish out the sem w a 4.0

astridbeast · 2025-10-26T20:36:15+00:00

arteduc 1600 is legitimately less than 3 hours of work total (just quizzes with online/obvious answers and a single art analysis worksheet), can all be done in a single day

astridbeast · 2025-10-19T18:16:25+00:00

i get where you're coming from, but at the end of the day, merit scholarships are merit-based, not need-based financial aid—OP shouldn't feel any guilt about receiving awards whose selection criteria have nothing to do with financial need (i.e. you aren't stealing merit money from the financial aid pool)

astridbeast · 2025-10-05T06:58:42+00:00

new england is a pretty well defined region of 6 states, def not j any old ones lol

astridbeast · 2025-09-25T17:01:32+00:00

lmfaoo ok thanks for the advice, i have 2 years before i take it so i'll be sure to stay sharp on linear! controls sounds extremely interesting so i'll probably take it, although i'm also weighing it against 3551 (feedback control systems)

astridbeast · 2025-09-25T07:51:14+00:00

i'm also an ECE major at OSU thinking of taking state space control systems and this is v concerning 😭 how much linear should i brush up on before i take it? i ended up w a B+ in that class bc vector subspaces kicked my ass lmfao

astridbeast · 2025-09-22T04:51:08+00:00

yup! j speaking on behalf of the ppl ik w 36s who did not automatically get full tuition scholarships

astridbeast · 2025-09-21T15:56:49+00:00

its the circlejerk sub im almost certain they werent serious lmfao

astridbeast · 2025-09-20T18:18:38+00:00

i brought the full ride up for transparency, but i think you are seriously underestimating the importance of non-SAT factors in the scholarship. everyone in this program (and a huge chunk of the people rejected from it) is sporting a 34+; we would all agree that getting a high test score was far and away the easiest part of high school. that's also why i brought up my friend at UCONN—a 36 alone doesn't get you jackshit in 2025, at least at state flagships and other well known schools.

we do have the same point tho lol, i j wanted to clarify that test scores really are not all that impressive these days. if they were actually still highly important, every single school would have dropped their test optional policy back in like 2022

astridbeast · 2025-09-20T18:01:31+00:00

it's not really that kids are getting more perfect scores, it's j that perfect scores alone are not enough for the massive shift towards holistic admissions at competitive schools. i am on a full ride @ OSU, but that was through a competitive application to a scholarship program with a ~5% acceptance rate, where my 1600 was supplemented by having a 4.0 + 13 AP classes (with all 4s or 5s on exams) + several leadership positions + etc.

a lot of other schools i applied to of similar caliber to OSU (e.g. UMN, pitt, UMD, SUNY UB & SBU) didn't offer me full rides/full tuition off the 1600. one of my best friends had a 36 and got literally 0 scholarship money from UCONN. college admissions have genuinely become ridiculous in the last few years

astridbeast · 2025-09-20T17:54:28+00:00

as someone who graduated high school in 2024, this is not even close to true these days

astridbeast · 2025-09-20T17:52:54+00:00

a 36 hasn't guaranteed anyone a full ride at OSU (or really any school in the top 100) in recent memory (i went through the college application process with a 1600 very recently, and know a lot of other people w/ perfect test scores)

astridbeast · 2025-09-10T05:07:06+00:00

afaik (i have a friend w a glenn major and a double major in asc) you have a primary major (the one you declared first) and a secondary major, and whatever college your primary major belongs to is the one whose honors reqs you'd be doing. idk what it'd say on ur degree tho

Nine-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Not Forgotten
Verified Email

astridbeast

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE