Miami of Ohio

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A school for below average white kids.

Tell that to Nicole Fleetwood.

https://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/nicole-r-fleetwood/

Or Rita Dove.

https://lib.miamioh.edu/2024-04-12-a-conversation-with-rita-dove

The Western College for Women (now a program within Miami University also graduated Donna Shalala.

Steve Ricchetti was a Western grad (after it became a university program).

[Anonymous]

Starbucks CEO is a Miami grad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A school for below average white kids.

Tell that to Nicole Fleetwood.

https://www.lyceumagency.com/speakers/nicole-r-fleetwood/

Or Rita Dove.

https://lib.miamioh.edu/2024-04-12-a-conversation-with-rita-dove

The Western College for Women (now a program within Miami University also graduated Donna Shalala.

Steve Ricchetti was a Western grad (after it became a university program).

It was & is a school for smart kids across the Midwest who want a smaller college than their states’ gigantic Big 10 universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No disrespect to Miami, it's a fine school with great Alumni.

I am from Ohio. The colleges have completely changed from the mid 1990s to now. Miami in the 1980s-1990s was at the top, hard to get into, the #1 public college in Ohio. Now, Ohio State is #1, the University of Cincinnati #2. Miami's acceptance rate is over 80 percent.

My daughter toured in 2024. We wanted her to love it (close to family, good merit aid), but she hated it. There is little or no diversity there. The campus is in the middle of nowhere, and the tour kept reinforcing the "middle of the cornfield" stuff.

Many kids from NOVA have no desire to go to Ohio- it's COLD, and the political climate is very MAGA. (Some people like this, but for many, this is not a huge selling point for many NOVA kids.)

I remember when Miami was more competitive and well-regarded and was curious why it's fallen in rankings and desirability. Is it mostly because the bigger sports publics are overall more popular now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I remember when Miami was more competitive and well-regarded and was curious why it's fallen in rankings and desirability. Is it mostly because the bigger sports publics are overall more popular now?

That is one major problem. Ohio State is not open enrollment anymore, it’s dirty little secret for years-they are now playing the academic school for the state which is funny if you grew up in Ohio. Layer on a declining population in the state, lower birth rates, and general pressures Miami overloads admitted students knowing many will pass once admitted. It still does, however, grab a bunch of kids from Shaker/Beachwood, Indiana Hill, Upper Arlington and the North Shore of Chicago. Not much has changed in Oxford over the last forty years and it still works as it did back then. Yes you can go to Miami and wind up at Yale Law, Northwestern Med, HBS, and yes become a CEO of a publicly traded company. More than one billionaire has attended Miami and made something of their life. You just don’t know them because that is Miami.