Is University of Miami that hard to get into?

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Anonymous wrote:Credit score beats SAT score. GW on the beach will never produce a Nobel or Pulitzer graduate.

Iam sorry your child was rejected from UM

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is going to a special cane weekend for particular scholarship winners on spring break. Can you please give me some feedback from your experience. Are there separate activities for parents and students? Were you able just o speak to any professors in your kids major? Any tips to make the trip more valuable? My son has several offers from other more prestigious schools but the full ride from Miami is the the best so far. We are waiting to hear from some ivies and top Slacs. He is a URM with very high test scores. He would like to go to a big name law school. If he does very well at Miami is this a possibility

I graduated from Miami a couple of decades ago ... back when they had just started luring top candidates away from big-name colleges farther north (Ivies, Dukes, etc). They won me over with a full tuition scholarship, challenging Honors Program, housing in Honors towers, etc. I had excellent academic and extracurricular opportunities while there and ended up at a top-ranked graduate school upon graduation ... right alongside folks from the Ivies, etc. The school (and city) were different back then, but I'd have to say the academics and reputation have only improved since my time. Depends on what you're looking for, and what kind of student you have, but if your question is can you end up at a top law school if you do really well at Miami? Yes, I don't see why not.

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Anonymous wrote:In fairness, Miami might not seem that expensive to someone from DC, where the cost of living and incomes are much higher than Florida.

62.000 per year is not expensive?

well, when 250k a year is considered "middle class" maybe not

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Anonymous wrote:My DC is going to a special cane weekend for particular scholarship winners on spring break. Can you please give me some feedback from your experience. Are there separate activities for parents and students? Were you able just o speak to any professors in your kids major? Any tips to make the trip more valuable? My son has several offers from other more prestigious schools but the full ride from Miami is the the best so far. We are waiting to hear from some ivies and top Slacs. He is a URM with very high test scores. He would like to go to a big name law school. If he does very well at Miami is this a possibility

I graduated from Miami a couple of decades ago ... back when they had just started luring top candidates away from big-name colleges farther north (Ivies, Dukes, etc). They won me over with a full tuition scholarship, challenging Honors Program, housing in Honors towers, etc. I had excellent academic and extracurricular opportunities while there and ended up at a top-ranked graduate school upon graduation ... right alongside folks from the Ivies, etc. The school (and city) were different back then, but I'd have to say the academics and reputation have only improved since my time. Depends on what you're looking for, and what kind of student you have, but if your question is can you end up at a top law school if you do really well at Miami? Yes, I don't see why not.

Great. We are very excited about the full ride scholarship and look forward to visiting this weekend. Tell me about Honors Towers. Is this a special dorm?

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Anonymous wrote:Son visited on a lark last year, cuz his younger brother was curious. After multiple prestigious universities beginning their talk with..."...we don't offer merit aid", he was stunned to hear the multiple scholarship grants for merit granted exceptional high school kids. Applied to all the big leagues and will hear in March, but as a non-single early action U Miami has already come back to him and offered a presidential scholarship of $25K a year to double major -- it may not be so difficult to turn down a prestigious school when U Miami is pouring money into attracting the best and brightest. This place is up and coming. Looking forward to the (sigh) visit for new admits in Feb, then a tour of the new Rosenstiel Center on Key Biscayne!

This. I now know 3 very bright kids who go $25 K merit aid, or in one case (ours) a full ride. All three are thinking about it since they have offers from other schools, one from an ivy, but without merit money. Obviously the U is aggressively pursuing top students. It also fun to visit. They roll out the red carpet when these scholarship winners visit after being accepted. Its a difficult choice because its nice to feel that you are really wanted. The new President is an amazing person.

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I posted early on. DC admitted RD to 3 schools in top 15 of USNWR, visited each and did overnight at 2, returned to U Miami for final decision and has committed there. With the merit $ and general comfort level on campus, accessibility of professors and dept heads DC was able to meet while shadowing the decision was finalized last week. Stats: 2310 SAT, 4.5 GPA, very focused and self directed student, has met many similar students. Marine & Atmospheric Science focus, will go in with full credit for APs and a couple University credits earned outside of school, the other three were full tuition and less flexibility on accepting APs etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm glad I don't have a daughter replying… That video is incredibly intimidating!according to someone we know who is a high school college advisor the school has changed dramatically over the last 10 years and has gotten increasingly harder to get into.

As a student at UM I have to say a lot of the delta gamma girls are smart and take school seriously. When I rushed last year one of the girls I talked to was an accounting major and the other was a fashion designer. Anyone who is reading this for the future do not judge UM girls by one delta gamma video. there are lot of other serorities with super nice down to earth girls. Most of them are all nice people theres always the exclusion of a particular group of course. This can happen at any school esp a private school like UM. But to be completely honest if you dont rush theres not much social life esp freshman year so I advise freshman girls to go through it.

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Depends on what you mean by "that hard." But, oh, look, some statistics! Acceptance rate is in the 30s%. USNWR and WSJ rank the school in the 40s.