OSU Admissions Blog

If you’re a high school senior, this is a stressful time of year. Between school, activities, SAT/ACT tests and applying to college. Here’s an awesome music video from students at the Believe High Schools in Brooklyn, NY that will help break the stress:

Best line:
I got my SAT pants on. Got my SAT dance on. [...]

For years, domestic undergraduate first year and transfer students who were unable to pay the $50.00 application fee have been able to seek an Oregon University System fee deferral (PDF). The deferral, which must be verified by a counselor or agency official, allows the student to transfer the application fee from an upfront cost to [...]

As part of its annual Homecoming which was celebrated over Halloween Weekend, over 600 students, faculty, alumni and friends participated in a giant synchronized Thriller dance. People gathered outside Reser Stadium beforehand to practice/learn the dance moves. The event was organized by current OSU Student Brianne Kiso on behalf of the Oregon State University Alumni [...]

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 [...]

The Bend area was abuzz on Tuesday over the PNACAC Central Oregon College Fair where large groups of high school students flocked to the Deschutes Fairgrounds to learn about the college admissions process. Oregon State University was at the fair as well as the OSU Cascades Campus – both featured in this news clip. [...]

Judging by all the insight resumes that the Admissions staff has read over the past ten months, the class of 2013 will be very involved on campus!  That said, we decided to offer up some tips to help students balance their school priorities and social life this upcoming year.  After all, we can’t expect you [...]

So since I am not hungry, most of my dorm is asleep, my classes are done for today, and I finally finished all of my homework I figured I would use this time wisely, instead of oh I don’t know playing halo for 99 minutes, and blog about something very important to me. Myself.
To the [...]

Ingredients for a perfect Fred Meyer night
A pair of comfortable walking shoes
Several decks of cards
Patience
Several close friends (can be replaced for your entire wing, or your entire dorm)
Several topics to discuss
An i pod (in case you run out of things to talk about and games to play)
A list
An idea of where things are
The ability to [...]

We are back in business!
We were expecting to be down today:
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 [...]

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 [...]