well lets see, from what ive heard osu is really bad for the...social minority groups. like nerdy people, its kinda a harsh party school and unless youre going there for natural sciences or music really not worth it.
ashland sucks.
Psu is an OK school. my personal stand point on it is that theres no reason to take your first two years there. PCC is an awesome school and in a very simaler area, and then psu takes all thier credits and you dont have to take the stupid inquiry courses. also pcc japanese program, even though it only goes 2 years is way better from what ive heard about the psu system.
and as far as reed goes.... be either from an exedingly wealthy or and exedingly poor family (or have a parent working there) cause good lord that place is spendy and dosent give merti based scholarships. and is also a **** ton of work. a couple of my friends go to/went there and good lord the amount of anxiety caused illnesses. also they all seem to take a year off and go to psu anyway to cool down.
i go to psu....i feel meh about it, but ive been in school for 3 years and just want to finnish, ive swithced arround so much and changed my major 5 times, id change it again if i could...stupid graphic design.