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Apply as a freshman if you will soon be a high school graduate who has never enrolled at a college or university. (Don’t count college classes you may have taken in high school.)
November 1 is key!
Students interested in transferring to Ohio State should not use the Common Application. Please head over to undergrad.osu.edu/transfer for a link to our transfer application. There you’ll find deadlines, requirements and enrollment criteria for your major.
P.S. A third of the undergraduates who received a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State last year were transfer students. Regardless of where you started college, you can graduate a Buckeye!
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