Miami University
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Anonymous
| Can anyone share any insights on Miami of Ohio? Academics (specifically for undergrad business majors), campus life, dorms, social life, sports? My kid wants a big rah rah school and we already have a bunch of those on her list, but we just don't know much about this school. We probably won't be able to visit it either, until after she gets an acceptance, should she get one. What makes it a "new ivy?" |
Anonymous
| It's mostly preppies from the suburbs of Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and especially Chicago. The academics are a bit stronger than the sky-high acceptance rate suggests, and business is one of the better programs. Greek life dominates the social scene. Dorms are average, but most only live in them freshman year. Sophomores and some juniors live in their fraternity/sorority houses, and most juniors and seniors live in off-campus housing. Not a huge rah-rah school when it comes to sports and DEFINITELY not a "new ivy" or "public ivy." Some dildo wrote a book in the 1980s calling it that and the school has been clinging to it ever since. |
Anonymous
Haha! Thanks for clarifying. I wondered how it got that title with it having such a high acceptance rate. |
Anonymous
| Greek Life is important. She should not consider going unless she joins. |
Anonymous
| Lots of hot girls. |
Anonymous
Not that MIAMI. There are very few hot girls at Miami Ohio….I went there… Great school. I loved it. But one thing when you get out of OH that you have to deal with your whole life is explaining that it is not UM or the U. It is Miami OHIO. I used to be upset about it…10 years of explaining……I just dont care anymore.. |
Anonymous
The girls at Miami of Ohio are fine, but the girls at the []_[] are FOYINE. |
Anonymous
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I have lots of family members that went there. The campus is very nice. My son applied there last year and got in but wasn't interested. He wanted a city school. Our high school sends a lot of kids there every year and has for a long time.
The business school has a very good recommendation. Most kids probably head to Cincinatti or Chicago after graduation. Or they head home. Very good with merit aid if you come from a school that has a ton of kids over a 4.0. So, you will get it even if you aren't in the top ten percent. |
Anonymous
That's great to know about the merit. Is the college town nice and are there a lot of things to do? For example, my kid wasn't excited about JMU because it felt kind of remote to her. |
Anonymous
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I live in Cincinnati and if you want your kid to build a life in Ohio then Miami is a great choice. I can spin in a circle and hit 10 Miami grads on my street alone and all of them are VERY successful in business, banking, consulting, etc. Most of them left Ohio after college and did big city things and then came back and settled here despite wherever they may have started in the world. Keep in mind that Cincinnati has a bunch of fortune 500 companies that are a draw so it's not just proximity.
As far as my street goes you have Miami grads who lived in Japan/Brazil/Belgium, etc. working for P&G and came back to settle and have kids, Miami grads who went to Boston to get established in fintech and then came back and settled to have kids, Miami grads as VPs of everything you could think of, but doing it in Cincinnati. A few on my street of Miami grads are school teachers but they are the minority. If you are into marketing/business you could do far worse than proximity to Cincinnati. So I think of it as a regional business school if you want to work at P&G, Kroger, 5/3rd, GE, etc. But outside of here I am not sure you'd have the name recognition and may need to wash yourself through a more recognized MBA program to get traction widely. |
Anonymous
I looked it up after we toured, and this is correct-- Miami was listed as a public ivy in a book from 1986, and they still mention it in their tour etc. The colleges in Ohio have drastically changed since then. Ohio State used to be a fallback school, and Gordon Gee completely changed Ohio State and the college rankings in Ohio. Miami used to be the hardest school to get into in Ohio, and now it's not even the top two- it's behind Ohio State and the University of Cincinnati. My DC toured, and we all wanted to love Miami. Unfortunately, coming from the DMV, she wanted a school with more diversity. She and her classmates all seemed to want to avoid Ohio generally as well, to be honest. Also- the campus is very Greek, but they don't have sorority houses due to an alumni leaving a large sum of money with stipulations that they were never allowed to have them. Instead, they have large suites inside dorm buildings. |
Anonymous
Omg no one with a brain is sending v their kid to a red state |
Anonymous
Our DC applied and with her 4.3 test optional she was given 25K off a year, with a COA of $32K. Harrisburg has nothing on Miami in terms of feelnig remote.. and they kept mentioning "being in the middle of cornfields" during the tour. Not a great sell for our DC. |
Anonymous
Ohhh, then that would be a no for my kid. She needs a campus that is super lively with a bunch of things to do. |
Anonymous
| Miami has kind if fallen in rep here in ohio. Kids choose Ohio State first and then between Miami, Cincinnati and Ohio U. Lots of heavy partying. Kids from rural Ohio. Bottom of the class kids from Cleveland private schools go there. But it’s a fine school. |