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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Miami Ohio is literally where the rich kids who didn't do so hot go.  It is full of preppy white kids.  Like a 3rd tier Ivy or somethings.  It was weird.  But they like their niche [/quote]

Miami still markets itself as an "original public ivy".

The term Public Ivy first appeared as the title of a 1985 book by Richard Moll, The Public Ivys: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities. It defines a Public Ivy as a public university that provides “an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price," and identified eight national universities that meet the criteria:

Miami University
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Virginia
University of California (system)
College of William & Mary
University of Michigan
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont[/quote]

Just another marketing gimmick to sell a book to rubes.  And Miami has a 65% admit rate.......I shudder to think of who they actually reject.[/quote]

VT has a 71% admit rate.[/quote]

Admit rates now that kids have Naviance and Common Data Set are totally misleading.  For the most part, kids only spend their money/time applying to colleges that they have a decent shot of getting into and maybe one or two reaches.  So it's not a big deal to accept 70% of students if they are mainly above 1300 SATs and 3.75 GPAs.   So it's not surprising that schools have high admit rates.  Look at the scores of the entering student bodies--that will tell you the caliber of students in the school.  This is why USNWR has taken acceptance rate off the formula--it was being gamed without offering meaningful insight.[/quote]

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