I went to every football game last year, and intend to do so again this year. Very doable, 45 min drive. Yes, OSU CHS has research. We have a research team that affords one the opportunity to get a lot done. I have 10 manuscripts under review in top journals, 2 accepted pending minor revisions and 2 offered revise and resubmit (still waiting on the rest). The 4th year that matched Derm last year have 4 derm publications, we have some rising 3rd years with 5 pubs in the top anesthesia journals and will likely match somewhere pretty crazy. If you want to do research with a good chance of getting published OSU is the DO school you want to be at. Also, the residents, fellows, and attendings at OSUMC are very involved in this research team so we get the chance to get "in" with the attendings before others have the chance. I am very happy with my time at OSU, and wouldn't rather be anywhere else in the nation right now besides maybe some top MD schools honestly because of the opportunities I have had. OOS students tend to do very well, I am pretty sure most OOS students are in the top 20 of the class, so if you are willing to grind you have a good opportunity to do well in class and build a good application overall.
