Miami University -- Oxford (OH)

[Anonymous]

DC is interested in engineering in a liberal arts environment. Anyone have any insights into this school? Also considering Rochester Institute of Technology but not admitted for engineering there. Thank you DCUM!

[Anonymous]

Beautiful campus with an okay town. Huge Greek presence here, big party school.
No a lot of diversity, very preppy.

[Anonymous]

Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

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Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

Not “quite” there yet? This second tier place has been trying hard for 30-plus years. It ain’t happening.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

Not “quite” there yet? This second tier place has been trying hard for 30-plus years. It ain’t happening.

Why so negative, Nelly?

Miami has a great reputation for undergraduate teaching. USNWR always ranks it near the top along with Brown. Almost half the student body studies abroad at some point, and almost 40% are from out of state. Miami loves high stats kids and have given generous merit aid for high scores.

[Anonymous]

Regarding Engineering, I have a cousin whose daughter majored in engineering at Miami University. She did not know she was going to be in engineering when she inked the school. When DC and I visited her on his HS college trip, she advised him to not go if he wanted engineering. She said she would have gone to University of Delaware instead, although she loved MU and had a great experience otherwise. He ended up at Purdue, which I would highly recommend, but not if your daughter wants a liberal arts experience too. Bucknell is one to consider for that. My other son is at RPI, and while not a liberal arts school, it is abut the same size as Bucknell and feels more like a liberal arts campus. Students have to 6 HASS (humanities and social studies) classes for graduation and that helps a bit. I would encourage her to look at RPI too.

[Anonymous]

RPI is about 67% male.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RPI is about 67% male.

. The OP mentioned U of Rochester, which is in the same vein. Female students wanting to major in engineering would have much better chances at merit aid at both schools.

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Anonymous wrote:RPI is about 67% male.

. The OP mentioned U of Rochester, which is in the same vein. Female students wanting to major in engineering would have much better chances at merit aid at both schools.

I meant RIT, not UofR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

You are exactly the type of person I hated meeting after graduating from Miami and moving to DC. And I don’t know a single person unaware of Oberlin.

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Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

Not “quite” there yet? This second tier place has been trying hard for 30-plus years. It ain’t happening.

Why so negative, Nelly?

Miami has a great reputation for undergraduate teaching. USNWR always ranks it near the top along with Brown. Almost half the student body studies abroad at some point, and almost 40% are from out of state. Miami loves high stats kids and have given generous merit aid for high scores.

It’s not well ranked overall. Facts matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

You are exactly the type of person I hated meeting after graduating from Miami and moving to DC. And I don’t know a single person unaware of Oberlin.

You don’t know many people then.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

Not “quite” there yet? This second tier place has been trying hard for 30-plus years. It ain’t happening.

Why so negative, Nelly?

Miami has a great reputation for undergraduate teaching. USNWR always ranks it near the top along with Brown. Almost half the student body studies abroad at some point, and almost 40% are from out of state. Miami loves high stats kids and have given generous merit aid for high scores.

It’s not well ranked overall. Facts matter.

#5 in undergraduate teaching

#31 in Top Publics

You need to get that stick out of your ass.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

You are exactly the type of person I hated meeting after graduating from Miami and moving to DC. And I don’t know a single person unaware of Oberlin.

DC is unfortunately full of people who claim to know a hell of a lot about things they know absolutely nothing about.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public school with a Heavy Greek presence. Safety school for lot of DC privates. Desperately wants to be a William & Mary type school but not quite there yet. Revered by Ohio residents - but understand most of them have never even heard of Oberlin and think OSU is the pinnacle of academic excellence. Not very diverse, very white. Pretty campus. It’s been mentioned a lot on here, do a search.

Not “quite” there yet? This second tier place has been trying hard for 30-plus years. It ain’t happening.

Why so negative, Nelly?

Miami has a great reputation for undergraduate teaching. USNWR always ranks it near the top along with Brown. Almost half the student body studies abroad at some point, and almost 40% are from out of state. Miami loves high stats kids and have given generous merit aid for high scores.

It’s not well ranked overall. Facts matter.

#5 in undergraduate teaching

#31 in Top Publics

You need to get that stick out of your ass.

31 out of a list of publics? Wow, that’s just amazzzzzzzzzing.