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Anonymous
NP. How do you view these schools? |
Anonymous
Not PP, but we moved to Cinci from DC about 2 years ago. Miami is a party school for UMC white kids, Oberlin is for hippies and druggies, no one has heard of Wooster or Kenyon and everyone goes to Ohio State |
Anonymous
What about Ohio U? Party school for those who don't get into Ohio State? |
Anonymous
Yes, unless you’re from Cincy in that case you go to UC. |
Anonymous
Oh, let’s not forget Univ of Dayton. Carbon copy of Miami, but private so a bigger draw for the OOS. |
Anonymous
Miami is one of four universities to graduate both a US president and a Super Bow winning quarterback. It also was a university whenever Florida belonged to Spain so there’s no need to say “Miami of Ohio.” |
Anonymous
Top tier OH schools - Ohio State, Miami, Case Next tier - Baldwin Wallace, Dayton, Cincinnati, Wittenberg, OU, Denison School for freaks - Oberlin School for farm kids - Wooster No one goes to Kenyon and Ohio Wesleyan Seriously - either kids went to the first 2 tiers or they went out of state. I don't know one person who went to Oberlin, Wooster, Kenyon or Ohio Wesleyon |
Anonymous
| Isn’t oberlin the hardest to get into in Ohio? |
Anonymous
No clue. I am serious when I say that I know no one who went there. I was in the top 10% of my class, and everyone went to Ohio State in the honors program or got out of dodge. |
Anonymous
PP again. Kids did go to Ohio Northern if they wanted to be pharmacists. |
Anonymous
You forgot Xavier. I knew a ton of kids who went there. |
Anonymous
Not sure who this poster is but I wouldn’t give them much credit if they knew nobody who went to top schools like Oberlin and Kenyon. Mine is at Oberlin and loves it - definitely not a school for freaks. And Miami is no top school. Decent school for average students but those students aren’t usually the kids who are top academically. |
Anonymous
The PP is giving the perspective of an Ohio native, not validating your sample of one. My Cinci colleagues make fun of Oberlin because they view it as a hippie school full of stoners and weirdos. We have a small office there and people make jokes about the drugs and overly PC culture. I agree it’s a good school, but the local perspective is different from the USNWR point of view. |
Anonymous
Forgot to add... whereas going to Miami is akin to William and Mary as a comparison to the DC point of view. Also agree with PP, I’m astounded that no one here seems to even know that Kenyon exists. It’s weird, but it’s a matter of perspective |
Anonymous
I lived in Ohio for a while, and this is basically the same perspective I heard, although since I was connected to OSU I knew more people in academia and therefore more people who had attended OWU, Otterbein, etc. In Ohio, it's OSU>>>>>>>>>OSU branch campus but only if you're using that branch campus as a 1 year ticket to the main campus>Miami, Case>>>>>> everything else. |