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Happy Veterans Day!

Blake — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:05:43 +0000

Good morning, faithful readers!

First of all, the entire OSU Admissions Office would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to all Veterans, especially our OSU students, faculty and staff who served. Thanks so much for all you do!

Veterans Day also happens to be one of our busiest regular visit days of the year as students have the day off from school. If you are coming down for a visit, we can’t wait to meet you! Just to show you how busy we are going to be today, check out this picture of our Visitor Center Cool Board:

The cool board is a Visitor Center tradition that dates back to before my time as a TOUR student. Which was, *ahem* some time ago. We always post the names of our student visitors on the Cool Board as a first welcome to our campus. As you can see, our Veterans Day crowd completely filled up the Cool Board. So, we used our overflow cool space, otherwise known as our life sized cutout of men’s basketball coach Craig Robinson.

If you weren’t able to make it down for a visit today, please check out our Visit OSU homepage and set up a personalized visit!

-JM

Corvallis Ranked 7th Best College Town in U.S.

Blake — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:13:48 +0000

Corvallis is ranked as the 7th best college town under 250,000 people in the American Institute for Economic Research‘s annual College Destinations Index. You can get the report from the AIERC website for free but you have to register to get the download link.

Here’s the rest of the top 10:

1. Ithaca, N.Y. (Cornell)

2. State College, Pa. (Penn State)

3. Ames, Iowa (Iowa State University)

4. Champaign-Urbana, Ill. (University of Illinois)

5. Iowa City, Iowa (University of Iowa)

6. Charlottesville, Va. (University of Virginia)

7. Corvallis, Ore. (Oregon State University)

8. Bloomington, Ind. (University of Indiana)

9. Columbia (University of Missouri)

10. College Station, Texas (Texas A&M)

Seriously. What else do you need to hear? If you are considering OSU and haven’t visited yet, set up a personalized visit and see for yourself what makes Corvallis and OSU so awesome!

-jm

OSU Preview complete; Beaver Open House yet to come

Blake — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:22:46 +0000

Preview OSU was held on Friday, October 10th at the OSU Corvallis campus. The weather cooperated and there was a great energy on campus. According to Marleigh Luster, a graduate assistant who helped coordinate the program, “It was a very successful event that hosted approximately 1100 visitors on campus! We had students and family members from Oregon, Washington, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Utah, and Illinois.” The opening session was packed with prospective students and parents. A great sight to see!

Next up: Beaver Open House, Saturday, November 8th. If you haven’t had opportunity to visit Oregon State University yet, Beaver Open House is a great way to do so. Just be sure to visit http://oregonstate.edu/fallvisits to learn more and sign up.

GO BEAVS!!!
-bv