Yes, very prevalent in the area and throughout OHIO....Have heard this many times while I worked in admissions.

This is where you fail....Harvard and Yale do not give merit scholarships, in fact their financial aid is totally based on economics. Yet their ACT/SAT/Merit Scholarships have NOT suffered. The average cost to attend Harvard is $6K and Yale $12K roughly. If you are under $120K in family income it's free at both. In fact when you go through the admission process they tell you that getting into those schools is the hardest part of graduating. My child attends a $64k institution with no merit aid at a far cheaper rate than OHIO university offered, and that is with a 36 ACT and 3600 ACT while being a National Merit Scholar at $10k over 4 years. less than $65k a year is free, $65k to $150k is 0%-10% of sticker price and that is with ZERO loans figured in. That is a hell of a deal for the education.

Bottom line is every school offers a unique opportunity and experience for each person. If it was as cut and dried as some think, we'd only need 1 school in each state.


So you clearly are out of touch while you are waiting for your shuttle to the Frisco Bowl.

It really makes me angry when people call Ohio a party school. Every school is a party school. Ohio is THE party school. Get it right.

OCF it was primarily in the better suburban schools from 9 to 3 on the 270 clock around Columbus and the better public private and public schools inside 270. Generally the conversation ended with "my mom would never let me go there." Part of that had to do with the reported numbers of sexual assaults. I remember going on campus tours when my daughter was looking at school in 99-00. I was amazed at the number of parents whose first concern was campus security. That was 19 years ago. Imagine what it's like today.

I'd like to, from personal experience, assure all prospective parents that it's possible to go to OU — or any college really — and not party.

Just raise a kid with crippling social anxiety. Problem solved.

In my experience, outside of Ohio no one has even ever heard of the party school reputation of Ohio University. Getting us confused with OSU or Miami is a much bigger problem.

In Ohio, people I've worked or socialized with think of BGSU as the joke party school in Ohio, followed by Kent. Miami and OHIO have the reputation of being "good" party schools, where you certainly had a great time but you also got a great education.