University of Miami or Harvard?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like OP is fine with letting the kid make an immature or lazy choice. If there are really no ambitions beyond his joining the family business, why bother choosing the more challenging academic environment?[/quoti

If OP is even for real- I agree. But the fact pattern of already having wealth management contacts seems too convenient.

Also, if someone needs to come on an anonymous forum putting Harvard + Miami in the same sentence-- they are too dumb for words.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't take this the wrong way - I am sure the OP's kid is smart. Does anyone ever factor in how challenging it must be to be a student in Harvard classes? And be surrounded for 4 years by Harvard students? I mean - does the magically networking fairy bless everyone that goes there? Not without a price...and I don't mean just money.

The hardest part about Harvard is getting in. It's a trope, but there is a lot of truth in it. If OP had said MIT or Cal or Cal Tech, I'd agree, but he can be a History or English major at Harvard and be fine.

Well you really aren't familiar with the level of writing and analysis expected in those disciplines at Harvard, are you?

Exactly. Since when is writing easier than math? They are just different, but are equally hard. Are you able to just churn out papers with a deep level of analysis and with great writing easily?

If you can write well enough to get in, you can write well enough to pass. Math requires a base of knowledge that you can't fake your way through.

Again, you know nothing about the expectations in world-class humanities departments. Also guarantee a kid recruited for athletics was not evaluated primarily on the basis of his writing skills. You wouldn't even get a C for writing intelligibly in a Harvard humanities class--actual analysis is expected. I wouldn't expect someone evidently focused on math automaticity to grasp this.

You think they do “math” in Upper level mathematics.

Leave it to an English major to claim analytical skill and then display the lack of them.

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OP here. He asked me for advice and I told him that he should make his own decision on where he wants to go. I don't care if he chooses University of Miami. I told him he should pick a school that will fit his academic and athletic needs. Three of his cousins attended Harvard and they all hated it, graduating class '2019.

He is a D1 recruited athlete so his life will be fine regardless of Miami or Harvard. Athletes are treated differently with the alumni and boosters helping them along the way, I get that. My younger brother was a D1 athlete at UVA and he has a very successful career, making a lot of money in IT sales while his Columbia graduate wife is a school teacher for FCPS making 1/25th of her husband.

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Given everything you’ve said here, I think Miami.
It’s sort of like the inverse of if you have to ask how much it costs, you can afford it.
If you have to ask Miami or Harvard, the answer is Miami. Meaning if it doesn’t matter that much to kid, just pick the one with the sunshine and easy living. He will likely feel out of place in Cambridge.

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Anonymous wrote:If he is dumb enough to prefer Miami for it's weather - I say go for it, make the change and open up a spot for some smarter and clearly more deserving kid to Harvard.

Harsh, but not totally inaccurate. OP's son is thinking very short term.

I cannot understand why anyone would select a college based on weather rather than academics. Aren't we talking about education rather than club med? That said, the only kids I know who struggled at Harvard were the athletes. Not all of them of course, but maybe this kid knows he's not cut out for the top academic environment in the world or just doesn't want to do the work.

My kid has the stats for University of Chicago but I would never encourage DC to apply their. The weather is freezing and depressing. Same with University of Michigan.

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I went to Harvard and can confirm that the name has and continues to open doors to me. It is clear that the Harvard name catches attention and draws perks and special consideration long after the point when most other colleges' names stops mattering in the course of a person's career. Fair or not, the advantage is real.

In 10 years, nobody will take note of Miami on your son's CV, but Harvard will continue to draw attention for his entire professional career. It is absurd to consider passing up Harvard for the sake of a few years in the sun now: tell your son to go to Harvard and then move to Miami for work.

Plus, Cambridge and Boston have a charm of their own.

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Anonymous wrote:Given everything you’ve said here, I think Miami.
It’s sort of like the inverse of if you have to ask how much it costs, you can afford it.
If you have to ask Miami or Harvard, the answer is Miami. Meaning if it doesn’t matter that much to kid, just pick the one with the sunshine and easy living. He will likely feel out of place in Cambridge.

This advice is breathtakingly foolish and smacks of pettiness and spite. This person would certainly urge her cild to choose Harvard if that were even a possibility for her kid, which it clearly is not.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. He asked me for advice and I told him that he should make his own decision on where he wants to go. I don't care if he chooses University of Miami. I told him he should pick a school that will fit his academic and athletic needs. Three of his cousins attended Harvard and they all hated it, graduating class '2019.

He is a D1 recruited athlete so his life will be fine regardless of Miami or Harvard. Athletes are treated differently with the alumni and boosters helping them along the way, I get that. My younger brother was a D1 athlete at UVA and he has a very successful career, making a lot of money in IT sales while his Columbia graduate wife is a school teacher for FCPS making 1/25th of her husband.

I can say that in the 90s, the business school classes were very intimate. Like around 25 kids or less, can chat with professor before and after class. Not sure if Harvard has the same vibe with professor approachability and accessibility.

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Miami is pretty popular right now. I'd say Miami.

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Parent of current Miami student - come on down - the weather is great, the school has great team spirit, and the students love to go to home and away games for various sports.

DD is working hard, learning a lot and has individual relationships with her professors.

Go U.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. He asked me for advice and I told him that he should make his own decision on where he wants to go. I don't care if he chooses University of Miami. I told him he should pick a school that will fit his academic and athletic needs. Three of his cousins attended Harvard and they all hated it, graduating class '2019.

He is a D1 recruited athlete so his life will be fine regardless of Miami or Harvard. Athletes are treated differently with the alumni and boosters helping them along the way, I get that. My younger brother was a D1 athlete at UVA and he has a very successful career, making a lot of money in IT sales while his Columbia graduate wife is a school teacher for FCPS making 1/25th of her husband.

I can say that in the 90s, the business school classes were very intimate. Like around 25 kids or less, can chat with professor before and after class. Not sure if Harvard has the same vibe with professor approachability and accessibility.

It is totally discipline dependent.

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Congratulations OP

TROLL OF THE YEAR

and 5 pages of suckers to prove it

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of current Miami student - come on down - the weather is great, the school has great team spirit, and the students love to go to home and away games for various sports.

DD is working hard, learning a lot and has individual relationships with her professors.

Go U.

I'm glad that your child enjoys Miami, but you know very well that if she had been capable of getting into Harvard, you would have told her to go there. What a stupid post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. He asked me for advice and I told him that he should make his own decision on where he wants to go. I don't care if he chooses University of Miami. I told him he should pick a school that will fit his academic and athletic needs. Three of his cousins attended Harvard and they all hated it, graduating class '2019.

He is a D1 recruited athlete so his life will be fine regardless of Miami or Harvard. Athletes are treated differently with the alumni and boosters helping them along the way, I get that. My younger brother was a D1 athlete at UVA and he has a very successful career, making a lot of money in IT sales while his Columbia graduate wife is a school teacher for FCPS making 1/25th of her husband.

So, if you have all this figured out already, who did you start this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:Parent of current Miami student - come on down - the weather is great, the school has great team spirit, and the students love to go to home and away games for various sports.

DD is working hard, learning a lot and has individual relationships with her professors.

Go U.

I'm glad that your child enjoys Miami, but you know very well that if she had been capable of getting into Harvard, you would have told her to go there. What a stupid post.

You're socially stupid. And conflating. This parent posted a kind, positive post about why her child likes Miami. Made no mention of Harvard. You probably went to public college lol. The rude angry types