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[quote=Anonymous]I loved Miami. The campus is the prettiest one I've been to. I went on to graduate school at Indiana University - which is also a beautiful campus, but I'd put Miami's on top.

Oxford, Ohio is a full on college town. There's really no other reason for its existence. Back when I went there in the 90s, it had something like 18 bars in 3 square blocks. I wasn't aware of any particular drug issues back in the day, but binge drinking was very much part of the culture. A compact campus plus limited car availability made the binge drinking relatively safe. (That kind of thing is never entirely safe - but with the population being almost entirely college kids who are walking to their destinations, some of the risks are mitigated.)

The PP mentioned what's called the Western program -- I didn't participate in that program, but it was a bit of a silo unto itself. The impression I got was that Western was like Oberlin or Earlham. A very liberal, liberal arts program that was incorporated into Miami. (I think it had been a separate women's college at some point.) Students can take a very interdisciplinary approach and sort of craft their own majors.

If you don't go that route, Miami has a very well regarded business school and solid programs for other majors. (I studied history/political science on my way to law school). It's primarily occupied by sons and daughters of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus suburbs. A lot of very attractive white kids go there. It skews conservative but -- at the time -- only by college standards. My impression was that college-conservative = fairly moderate in the "real world." (Paul Ryan's fraternity notwithstanding. The Delta Tau Deltas -- "Dicks 'Til Death" mostly hung out at Top Deck (Top Delt) bar. So you could avoid them.)

It's only about 20 miles (and 30 minutes) from the northern edge of Cincinnati. (Bunch of retail options on Colerain Avenue in northern Cincinnati.) It is about an hour to the Cincinnati airport (actually in northern Kentucky) or, for that matter, about an hour to the Dayton airport. Two hours to Indianapolis or Columbus.

Anyway, best years of my life were there. [/quote]

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