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General Ohio University Discussion/Alumni Events Topic
Topic: Third year in a row
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TWT
5/27/2024 12:19 PM
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Ohio University is expecting incoming-student enrollment for the Fall Semester 2024 to be about the same as previous record-breaking years.

For the 2023 Fall Semester, OU had 4,517 first-year students enrolled at its Athens campus and are hoping to enroll roughly the same amount for the upcoming year, Vice President for Enrollment Management Candace J. Boeninger wrote in an email.

“Interest in Ohio University is at an all-time high, and enrollment of new and continuing students on the Athens campus has been especially strong in the past couple of years,” Boeninger said in an email.

According to a previous The Post report, OU has had record breaking enrollment numbers for incoming students.

The university had 4,441 first-year students in Fall 2022 and 4,516 year-students in Fall 2023 according to a university news release.

https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2024/05/ou-expectin...
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Ryan Carey
5/27/2024 8:29 PM
I'm beyond excited that one of those incoming freshmen will be my oldest!
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giacomo
5/28/2024 9:02 AM
Bucking the trend. Great news. Any ideas why we are bucking the trend?
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Alan Swank
5/28/2024 9:22 AM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
Bucking the trend. Great news. Any ideas why we are bucking the trend?
A better job of selling.

This: https://www.ohio.edu/admissions/ohio-admission-promise

And this: https://www.ohio.edu/admissions/presidents-opportunity-pr...
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Andrew Ruck
5/28/2024 12:21 PM
Ryan Carey wrote:expand_more
I'm beyond excited that one of those incoming freshmen will be my oldest!
Congrats Ryan! I am in the fight right now with my rising Senior who is dead set on out of state. If he were to come around to in-state he would go to OU.
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JSF
5/29/2024 1:39 AM
Andrew Ruck wrote:expand_more
I'm beyond excited that one of those incoming freshmen will be my oldest!
Congrats Ryan! I am in the fight right now with my rising Senior who is dead set on out of state. If he were to come around to in-state he would go to OU.
Eh, just tell him you're not paying for out-of-state.
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Andrew Ruck
5/30/2024 8:14 AM
JSF wrote:expand_more
I'm beyond excited that one of those incoming freshmen will be my oldest!
Congrats Ryan! I am in the fight right now with my rising Senior who is dead set on out of state. If he were to come around to in-state he would go to OU.
Eh, just tell him you're not paying for out-of-state.
Oh I did. Like most 17 year olds, the financial aspect is about 99th on a list of 100 things he is considering.
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SBH
5/30/2024 10:19 AM
I had to stay in state but (at parents' direction) pick a school at least 3 hours from Akron. Thankfully, the federal speed limit was 55 mph in 1979 so Athens qualified. Otherwise it would have been Miami.
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BillyTheCat
5/30/2024 10:58 PM
Mine could have went to 2 dozens schools for free. She chose a private liberal arts school in St Paul MN. She hates cold weather. When it was all said and done, 5 years later she loves the city and cost her 10k for her 4 years. Sticker price was 64k a year, she did Americore and when she was done they paid her debit and she cashed a check for 5 figures.
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MonroeClassmate
5/31/2024 10:29 PM
SBH wrote:expand_more
I had to stay in state but (at parents' direction) pick a school at least 3 hours from Akron. Thankfully, the federal speed limit was 55 mph in 1979 so Athens qualified. Otherwise it would have been Miami.
Bite your tongue !
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OUPride
6/1/2024 9:55 AM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
Bucking the trend. Great news. Any ideas why we are bucking the trend?
Could be a variety of reasons. The university could simply be doing a better job of marketing itself and increasing the amount of applications. It could be getting more serious with financial aid and increasing our yields. Or it could be dipping deeper into its applicant pool and accepting kids that might not have been accepted previously.

Won't really be able to tell until the full class profile (acceptance rates, yield, class stats) are available.
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giacomo
6/1/2024 10:00 AM
The best advice regarding this is what one of my clients told their 4 daughters years ago. They said they would pay for 4 years of an in state university. If they wanted to go private or out of state, they would have to pay it themselves and get loans. If they took more than 4 years to graduate, it was on them. Same for grad school. They also gave them a budget for the weddings. Anything over was on them. Very smart and most people don’t do this.
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Jeff Johnson
6/15/2024 6:05 PM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
The best advice regarding this is what one of my clients told their 4 daughters years ago. They said they would pay for 4 years of an in state university. If they wanted to go private or out of state, they would have to pay it themselves and get loans. If they took more than 4 years to graduate, it was on them. Same for grad school. They also gave them a budget for the weddings. Anything over was on them. Very smart and most people don’t do this.
We were living in San Diego when our son and daughter graduated from high school. I told them they could go to college anywhere they wanted so long as the net cost did not exceed the cost to send them to a University of California campus. They both chose Ohio U.
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TWT
6/23/2024 10:45 AM
As a fun fact Athens, Oh was the 10th fastest growing city last year at 8.6% increase with the incoming classes larger than the ones departing.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2024/comm/f...

This next class is going to be another net 1,500 students replacing the COVID class in fall of 2020. From there the growth in students is going to level off with 2025 possibly another 750 more.
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Alan Swank
6/23/2024 12:16 PM
Campus Flow wrote:expand_more
As a fun fact Athens, Oh was the 10th fastest growing city last year at 8.6% increase with the incoming classes larger than the ones departing.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2024/comm/f...

This next class is going to be another net 1,500 students replacing the COVID class in fall of 2020. From there the growth in students is going to level off with 2025 possibly another 750 more.
While maybe true, it's skewed growth to a demographic of 18 and 19 year olds. Permanent residency is declining. Case in point - Athens High graduating class is now down to 175 kids. When my daughter graduated in 2000 it was 235.
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TWT
7/10/2024 5:17 PM
[quote]ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Total fall enrollment numbers at Ohio University are trending higher than they were this time last year.

The number is up 10% compared to last June. The university also saw a record number of applications, with 27,000 so far and counting. This is a 7% increase from 2023.

The enrollment update was presented to the university’s board of trustees at its meeting this week in Dublin.

Last year’s incoming freshman class was a record high, and a high percentage of those students are returning this fall.

https://woub.org/2024/06/14/ohio-university-projects-high... /
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About 2,000 more applications this year for OU, pretty decent growth. University has turned it around since the pandemic year.

The battle used to be about attracting the most qualified students but since COVID its become about getting as many students in the door as possible. State funding is now tied to FTE count not campus square feet as it was 15 years ago. From what I have read the freshman classes in recent years at Akron and Toledo have only about 2,000 students.
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TWT
9/11/2024 6:11 PM
Official number for the main campus 2024 freshman class 4,345. It was included in a nice write up about the university.

https://www.ohio.edu/news/2024/09/ohio-universitys-total-... .

This years class of 4,345 is replacing the 2020 class of 3,071. A net gain of 1,274 students from comparing the two numbers not factoring in student attrition.

2024 4,345
2023 4,516
2022 4,441
2021 3,664
2020 3,126
2019 3,671

This year is an increase of more than 1,300 students overall but undergraduate numbers haven't climbed back above 17,000. Last year fall head count undergraduate was 15,594 and total Athens enrollment of 18,120. I'm not sure if Athens campus will once again be above 20,000 again unless there is a surge in graduate enrollment.

https://www.ohio.edu/iea/student-data/enrollment/fallenroll
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Bobcat Love
9/12/2024 1:30 PM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
The best advice regarding this is what one of my clients told their 4 daughters years ago. They said they would pay for 4 years of an in state university. If they wanted to go private or out of state, they would have to pay it themselves and get loans. If they took more than 4 years to graduate, it was on them. Same for grad school. They also gave them a budget for the weddings. Anything over was on them. Very smart and most people don’t do this.
Honestly, I would tell your client this is awful parenting. Variety of reasons, but they are bottom of the barrel as far as parents are ranked.

What do his/her kids do now?
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BillyTheCat
9/12/2024 10:11 PM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
The best advice regarding this is what one of my clients told their 4 daughters years ago. They said they would pay for 4 years of an in state university. If they wanted to go private or out of state, they would have to pay it themselves and get loans. If they took more than 4 years to graduate, it was on them. Same for grad school. They also gave them a budget for the weddings. Anything over was on them. Very smart and most people don’t do this.
Did the same.
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SBH
9/13/2024 8:04 AM
giacomo wrote:expand_more
The best advice regarding this is what one of my clients told their 4 daughters years ago. They said they would pay for 4 years of an in state university. If they wanted to go private or out of state, they would have to pay it themselves and get loans. If they took more than 4 years to graduate, it was on them. Same for grad school. They also gave them a budget for the weddings. Anything over was on them. Very smart and most people don’t do this.
So if they went private or out of state, the parents wouldn't pay anything? Sounds like they've got a bird in a cage.
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Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
9/13/2024 9:08 AM
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What do his/her kids do now?
Their kid is responsible for negotiating buy game pricing for G5 football programs.
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74 Cat
9/13/2024 9:55 AM
Back in the day, Ohio's Tuition Trust Program allowed the purchase of credit hours at today's price and the purchase was put into an account for later. By the time I got done, my daughter could have attended any state college (except the one in Oxford) and her four years were paid for.

She ended up going out of state but the funds that were put aside in Tuition Trust were able to be put towards her out of state tuition.

By the time we got done with grant and scholarships, it was not a big deal.

In the topic at hand, one would have thought that anything above the cost of in state tuition had to be covered by non-parental resources. Fine. These resources are out there (student loan is a last resort). Different things work for different folks but in my experience what was best for my daughter came first. What was best for her may not apply to others here but if there is a will there is a way.
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OhioCatFan
9/13/2024 10:58 AM
BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
The best advice regarding this is what one of my clients told their 4 daughters years ago. They said they would pay for 4 years of an in state university. If they wanted to go private or out of state, they would have to pay it themselves and get loans. If they took more than 4 years to graduate, it was on them. Same for grad school. They also gave them a budget for the weddings. Anything over was on them. Very smart and most people don’t do this.
Did the same.
Another BL-certified bad parent checking in. We told our kids they could go to any state school in Ohio, and we'd foot the bill. If they went to a private or out-of-state school, they'd be responsible for the difference between an in-state school and the costs at the school of their choice. The older two picked Ohio, though the eldest daughter spent her first two years at that School in Oxford. Oh the shame!

But, the youngest daughter went to Michigan and managed to get a scholarship that paid enough to make up the difference. So, she got a UMich education for the same out-of-pocket expenses for her parents as if she'd gone to Bowling Green. Her first choice was actually Northwestern, but they wouldn't give her a scholarship and actually told us we should take a second mortgage out on our house to finance her education there!
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Kevin Finnegan
9/13/2024 12:51 PM
Currently live out of state, but am taking my 16 year old son on his first official college visit when we tour OHIO during Homecoming week. Is it still true that the university has a legacy/alumni program where children of alumni get in-state tuition even if they come from out-of-state?
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oldkatz
9/14/2024 10:27 AM
We had three in college at the same time: one at OU and two at private schools. They all had some significant scholarships but it was still a struggle.
I had to sell a kidney.........wasn't mine, though.
Grad school was on them up through every level.
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