OSU Admissions Blog

Last week, Lower Columbia College students made the long drive to Corvallis to visit Oregon State. Visit this link to see their pics and comments like this one:
My trip to Oregon State University was very special to me. I was deciding whether to go to WSU or Oregon State, and when I went [...]

OSU is in the process of improving and updating our payment gateway. There will be a couple of periods when the work on that system will make payments, and as a result, the application for admission, unavailable.
The dates that the application will not be available are:
-Tuesday, November 3rd
-Several hours over the Thanksgiving weekend
If you [...]

Due to the high response, registration is closed for Preview OSU on Friday, October 9, 2009.
Beaver Open House is another chance to get an in-depth look at Oregon State University and see what we have to offer. BOH is a full-day program with opportunities to meet OSU faculty, staff and current students, tour the [...]

The only thing better for an office of die hard citizens of Beaver Nation than having the actual Benny Beaver working here is a LIFE SIZED CUTOUT of Benny. He arrived today, we are oh so excited!

This is a photo of two of our Admissions Bloggers, Matt Ogawa and Blake Vawter with the cutout of [...]

Oregon State will be transitioning to an updated version of our student information system (Banner) over Labor Day weekend. Since this is a pretty big update, we are expected to be without access to Banner until September 9th. This means that we will not be able to process, search, review or update any [...]

As a citizen of Beaver Nation, if it’s new, stylish and Orange & Black, I MUST have it! I just stumbled across one of the USPS’s hot new offerings, collegiate stamps. If I do say so myself, the OSU stamps are particularly attractive. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds go to support OSU directly. Check [...]

Hi Admissions Blog Followers!

My name is Marleigh Luster and I have just joined the blogging team.  I’m an Admissions Advisor here at Oregon State and an alum of the College of Education.  I’m originally from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii and have been living in Oregon now for about nine years.  I’m excited to be working at Beaver [...]

If you are the typical incoming OSU student, you’ve probably already had a whirlwind summer! Between high school graduation, START, your internship/summer job, hanging out with friends and purchasing decor for your residence hall room…You probably haven’t thought much about some of the nuts and bolts things you need to do to finish up [...]

Kudos to Tristen Shay and Chelsea Whitlow, OSU alumni, for their efforts on the inaugural PRIDE Corvallis events this weekend.
From the PRIDE Corvallis web site:

PRIDE Corvallis is a group of community members dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ community of Corvallis and surrounding areas. We are excited to be hosting Corvallis’ [...]

Included in the feature on the front of today’s Oregonian – “Top grads have the brains but lack the bucks” — are some extraordinary statistics, uncovered by the Oregonian in its survey of”456 valedictorians and straight-A seniors at 97 metro-area public and private high schools”:
Top college choices
Oregon State (50)
University of Oregon (37)
University of Washington (22)
George [...]