OSU vs OU: Daughter Choosing University

[discipulus]

OSU grad here. My daughter will be going off to college next year. She is choosing between OSU, OU, OCU, and OC. She wants to go to OSU but OSU is way behind in scholarship offers (monetarily speaking and timewise). So far OU and OCU have offered significantly more much earlier in the process. Honestly, it is looking too late for OSU to recover. My daughter scored a 30 on the ACT and has been selected since her Freshman year in high school for The Oklahoma Arts Institute summer program for Violin for the state's best violinists.

Do any of you have and ideas on what to do this late in the process at least to put OSU on an equal footing with the other local schools?

Thanks for any ideas or help you can offer.

 

[purkey]

can she play the cello...it's just a few octaves different.

 

[Mr.OSU]

OSU grad here. My daughter will be going off to college next year. She is choosing between OSU, OU, OCU, and OC. She wants to go to OSU but OSU is way behind in scholarship offers (monetarily speaking and timewise). So far OU and OCU have offered significantly more much earlier in the process. Honestly, it is looking too late for OSU to recover. My daughter scored a 30 on the ACT and has been selected since her Freshman year in high school for The Oklahoma Arts Institute summer program for Violin for the state's best violinists.

Do any of you have and ideas on what to do this late in the process at least to put OSU on an equal footing with the other local schools?

Thanks for any ideas or help you can offer.

Buddy of mine got a late in the game full ride to osu. He was going to go to a smaller school and got the offer months before starting it seemed.

 

[OK State Fan]

OC is really really good. They give lots of scholarships.
OSU honors program is strong. I would get in touch with them for a tour. My daughter was going to go to OSU until OC came through.

 

[MR. TANNER BOYLE]

OSU grad here. My daughter will be going off to college next year. She is choosing between OSU, OU, OCU, and OC. She wants to go to OSU but OSU is way behind in scholarship offers (monetarily speaking and timewise). So far OU and OCU have offered significantly more much earlier in the process. Honestly, it is looking too late for OSU to recover. My daughter scored a 30 on the ACT and has been selected since her Freshman year in high school for The Oklahoma Arts Institute summer program for Violin for the state's best violinists.

Do any of you have and ideas on what to do this late in the process at least to put OSU on an equal footing with the other local schools?

Thanks for any ideas or help you can offer.

is she majoring in music

 

[GoPokes43]

I'm out of the loop. What is OC?

Unless she is music/art, I would not go to OCU.

Long term national or regional opportunities, OSU and OU are roughly equal with some differences based on major.

In any case, call OSU and explain that OU is about to win out unless OSU steps up.

 

[discipulus]

is she majoring in music

She is considering it based on scholarship opportunities. OU has offered several thousand to be in an honors quartet and to double major in music. OSU only offered a few hundred dollars to play in the orchestra.

 

[discipulus]

I'm out of the loop. What is OC?

OC = Oklahoma Christian.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

The only thing I can offer up is OU's national leading diversity. 2 tri-racial grand kids, a Choctaw granddaughter-in-law and a bunch of nieces and nephews have followed legions of minorities who have walked the halls at OU. We are honored to walk the halls with our white brothers and sisters, too.

 

[discipulus]

OC is really really good. They give lots of scholarships.
OSU honors program is strong.

She applied for a full ride honors scholarship. She made it as a finalist (top 20 out of 1100) and had two interviews but found out she wasn't one of the 5 winners. However, she still gets $2500 but that is not much compared to a full ride and to what OU is offering.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

She is considering it based on scholarship opportunities. OU has offered several thousand to be in an honors quartet and to double major in music. OSU only offered a few hundred dollars to play in the orchestra.

We can start a go fund me and raise $3,000 if it means choosing OSU.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

She applied for a full ride honors scholarship. She made it as a finalist (top 20 out of 1100) and had two interviews but found out she wasn't one of the 5 winners. However, she still gets $2500 but that is not much compared to a full ride and to what OU is offering.

Heck, I'm pulling for OU or OSU. Mostly OU. Let us know what happens. Somehow I see OU in her.

 

[MR. TANNER BOYLE]

She is considering it based on scholarship opportunities. OU has offered several thousand to be in an honors quartet and to double major in music. OSU only offered a few hundred dollars to play in the orchestra.

my daughters a freshman in engineering at osu, leading up to college she put on everything she’d be studying math...we were told she didn’t get much in scholarships because she listed math, but would have gotten a lot more $ if she had listed engineering instead. Don’t know if that info helps at all, it was a real expensive learning experience for me.

 

[OUSOONER67]

Maybe look at some Oregon Schools. David Allen may have a few suggestions, ANTIFA aTm?
Commie Community College?
Libtard Junior College?
Burn Loot Murder University.
Orange Man Bad State?

 

[22LR]

Maybe look at some Oregon Schools. David Allen may have a few suggestions, ANTIFA aTm?
Commie Community College?
Libtard Junior College?
Burn Loot Murder University.
Orange Man Bad State?

Why go all the way to Oregon? Oklahoma's public Colleges and Universities do a fine job of those already.

 

[long-duc-dong]

Go to Francis Tuttle and learn something. I promise it’ll payoff better.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Maybe look at some Oregon Schools. David Allen may have a few suggestions, ANTIFA aTm?
Commie Community College?
Libtard Junior College?
Burn Loot Murder University.
Orange Man Bad State?

Oregon is the nearest we have to a socialist state. During my extensive business trips to Oregon from 1991-April, 2003, I never found a high school or college age person who could define civics.

FWIW: Congress has finally banned the U. S. foot. By 2023, Washington State must join Oregon and 39 other states in using the international foot in all construction. The international foot sets the inch at precisely 2.54 cm.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

With a 30 ACT (I’m assuming ACT has the same scale it’s always had) she needs to consider a major with better job prospects than music provides. No doubt she’s talented, but test scores like she has indicate she’s quite intelligent and would have great success in law, medicine, engineering, tech, accounting/business, or other high salary positions.

That being said, I’ve never seen a state school that focuses as much attention and resources on its fine arts program as OU does, and I’m sure it’d be a great experience for her.

 

[discipulus]

No doubt she’s talented, but test scores like she has indicate she’s quite intelligent and would have great success in law, medicine, engineering, tech, accounting/business, or other high salary positions.

Yes sir. We are in total agreement. One of her goals is to complete college debt free. If she receives a significant music scholarship it will be a means to an end, like a possibly a music minor with a business degree. Thanks for the advice. And honestly right now Soonerinlouisianna, it looks like OU will be the choice. They have by far exceeded OSU's response to her. I am not sure why that is, but it is what it is.

 

[FMPoke]

In choosing a college in Oklahoma I would cite two factors. Yes money and scholarships are important but far more important in my mind if she knows what she want's to major in is the strength of the program in her major. All higher education in Oklahoma is underfunded and dependent on outside fundraising. How those resources get allocated and the ability to raise funds by department varies wisely from university to university although I will say the one connect here is the specific scholarships generally follow the funding.

If she can get the degree she wants from a good program and get out debt free that's a significant head start in life. If that turns out to be OU then so be it.

 

[GoPokes43]

I would not choose based on a few thousand dollars of scholarships. Fit with culture, strong applicable majors, job prospects, etc. are vastly more important. If everything thing else is equal, scholarships could sway though. For instance, I gave up $30k per year in law school scholarships at some top 10 law schools, for the best one for me and don't regret it a bit 15+ years later.

 

[iasooner2000]

Can you ‘out argue’ JD ?

 

[purkey]

Can you ‘out argue’ JD ?

will it require facts?

 

[iasooner2000]

Of course. They get paid by the letter, syllable or queef

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

Can you ‘out argue’ JD ?

Im sure his response would be to alternate semesters between Norman and Stillwater. That’s what a “moderate” would recommend.

 

[driad]

The only thing I can offer up is OU's national leading diversity. 2 tri-racial grand kids, a Choctaw granddaughter-in-law and a bunch of nieces and nephews have followed legions of minorities who have walked the halls at OU. We are honored to walk the halls with our white brothers and sisters, too.

FU we got Lindy Waters & turquoise uniforms.

 

[GoPokes43]

Can you ‘out argue’ JD ?

Me? I avoid litigation. Too many rules.

 

[windriverrange]

No choice really......first is OSU, second OCU, third is OC and 100th would be beelzububville. Be your daughters Yoda.

 

[CowboyJD]

Im sure his response would be to alternate semesters between Norman and Stillwater. That’s what a “moderate” would recommend.

I have a daughter at OSU, a daughter at OU, and a daughter at UCO.

All are very happy and I am very happy for them.

Neither life nor politics is about choosing between binary extremes.

 

[CowboyJD]

Me? I avoid litigation. Too many rules.

If you ain’t committing crimes (allegedly) or representing someone that is.....you ain’t got to worry about litigating with me.

We good.

 

[CowboyJD]

Of course. They get paid by the letter, syllable or queef

Not me.

I am a lowly public servant wage slave.

 

[CowboyJD]

We can start a go fund me and raise $3,000 if it means choosing OSU.

I’m in.

 

[HighStickHarry]

I hope I don’t make the same parenting mistakes that lead to some of the things I see posted in this thread.