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(05-17-2020 08:52 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

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(05-17-2020 12:20 PM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Yup. As someone who has lived Columbus and now lives in Loveland I have these discussions with people all the time:

Loveland/Mason/West Chester Dad: Oh my god, I am not sending my daughter down to the hood (UC). She is going to OSU.

The fact is that part of Columbus might be worse than Clifton, especially when you pull up the crime reports and see all the rapes, murders, and other varieties of crime. For some reason, people think when they go to OSU they will be in a suburban setting.

They get their news from Cincinnati so they aren't as aware of the crime in CBus. Crime is as bad or worse in the Short North and High Street as it is in Clifton.

Interesting to compare the top feeder schools for UC and OSU.

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/n...g/461451/1

https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/new...g/442138/1

A lot of Cincinnati and Cleveland on the OSU list.

From SW Ohio: Ursiline (25), Lakota West (23), Centerville (17), Sycamore (14), St. X (3), William Mason (1)

UC's list is all SW Ohio (Centerville is the furthest away from campus).

That's a lot of room to grow our brand awareness around the state, and touching on what's said above, a key component of that should be highlighting the changes to both campus and OTR.

Anecdotal but I knew a massive amount of Cleveland people while at UC. It seemed that for every 1 columbus student I met, I met 2 or 3 cleveland students.

Cleveland metro is 2-3 times larger by population, so that would make sense. There are a TON of Cleveland kids at UT too.

Good point. I guess what I was getting at is that I was just shocked with how many Clevelanders go to UC. I didn't think I would encounter as many as I did throughout my years on campus.