Ohio State University

For Music students, this place does not require high standard which is bad for performance major. Anyone seeking for real music performance education should not go here, and anyone seeking for average music performance education can enter OSU.

1st Year Male -- Class 2006

Surrounding City: B+, Faculty Accessibility: C-

Ohio State has done very little to help me. Because of a disability, I was unable to take full advantage of my time. If the ADA had been enacted when I was in school I believe things could of been different. Part of my disability has given me an IQ of 160, but other aspects of it have kept me from being as successful as I would like. Many of the problems I had would be easily identified today.

During my time at OSU, I was just another kid to weed out. In required business calculus, accounting and finance classes we were told that midterms were designed to flunk a large percent of the class. Instructors would walk in the next day, half the class gone, and say “That’s more like it, let’s get some work done.”

Engineering prerequisites were designed to weed out students because the University did not have the staff to support the quantity of students that wanted to transferee into the Engineering School.

The instructors that spoke English as a second language were a death sentence. It was an “us against them” mentality. I did persevere and graduate. Everything that I needed to succeed in my profession I learned after I graduated.

Should some kids be weeded out? Maybe, but this should only occur as a natural course of events, not a contrived conspiracy. If the kid can handle the work, we as a society, should give him the opportunity to reach his potential.

My character was built by the values my family instilled in me. My father was raised in Appalachia and grew up in a shack without a floor, electricity or indoor plumbing. I was able to live a comparatively good life.

My son has the same disability. He is developing in a caring environment, and is light-years ahead of where I was at his age, academically, athletically and socially. He talks about going to Ohio State, but I am not so sure. Only time will tell. Am I looking for someone to “hold his hand”? No! I just want a level playing field. Does OSU provide that? I have no idea.

Alumnus Male -- Class 2000