<p>Good points about the Miami Business School. You can’t go wrong here.</p>
<p>Just an FYI—My son hasn’t had any TAs at OSU his freshman year. That perception doesn’t match reality.</p>
<p>Just to move the discussion away from “personal experience” stories and more towards raw statistics. I went to the trouble of going to each school’s website, finding their common data set and digging up the class profiles for last Fall’s freshman class. For comparison’s sake, I’ve added that of Michigan.</p>
<p>Students in top tenth/top quarter/top half of high school class:
Michigan 84%/97%/100%
Ohio State 54%/89%/98%
Miami 33%/69%/95%</p>
<p>Middle 50% range of ACT/SAT scores
Michigan 27-31/1230-1440
Ohio State 26-30/1130-1340
Miami 24-29/1070-1280</p>
<p>Students Scoring 30+ on ACT composite
Michigan 50%
Ohio State 31%
Miami 17.41%</p>
<p>Students scoring 23 or below on ACT composite
Michigan 5.8%
Ohio State 9%
Miami 21.99%</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I find the refrain of, “we’re not competing for the same students” to be hogwash. Maybe kids in Chicago or Indiana don’t consider both schools, but Ohioans–who are still 2/3 of Miami’s freshman class do. It’s an easy out–mental gymnastics to say that if we don’t compete for the same students we couldn’t possibly be losing the battle. It might salve the wound by not forcing one to look at it, but it’s shortsighted.</p>
<p>Wound? My son bested all of those statistics. He is hardly salving a wound. You’re a bit dramatic.
Top 5%, Blue Ribbon HS, 1470 SAT
If you wanted a smaller state school, Michigan and OSU don’t look so attractive. Here was the most important statistic in our evaluation, not to mention a top 20 B-School.</p>
<p>[Miami</a> students beat their peers in the race to graduation | | 2011 | News | News & Events | Miami University](<a href=“http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news-and-events/news/2011/02/graduationrate.html]Miami”>http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news-and-events/news/2011/02/graduationrate.html)</p>
<p>both are clearly good schools. very different and with different strengths. the fact of the matter is osu is harder to get into…this year it’s significantly harder. does that make it a much better school then miami? no, just more competitive and possibly more “popular”</p>
<p>I will certainly buy “more popular”. It has 4 times as many students!! But if you want a small public, OSU does NOT FIT!</p>
<p>I have to say, I am going to be an honors freshman next year at OSU and I had a few different options (though I didn’t apply to MU). The thing that sold me about OSU aside from academics and price is the energy on campus…I simply got the feeling that the people there were more excited about being at OSU than the people at the other schools I was considering.</p>
<p>OSU is becoming an amazing university and students outside of Ohio are realizing that! I am from NJ and most of the students at my school are dreaming of being accepted. Besides my school, i wrestle so i work with students outside my school and they are beginning to fall in love with the university as well. Not to mention, 3 out of the top 10 wrestlers in NJ have comitted to Ohio State! Gordon Gee is an amazing president and he will have this college become one of the better universities… not that it already isn’t. With the addition of the Common app getting into the university will become more difficult and graduates will praise their school! I am extremely happy i was accepted into the university! Now all i need is the BUCKS to win the national championships in football next year!</p>
<p>My D. was accepted to both Honors at OSU and Miami few years ago. There is a HUGE diff. in FA Merit package. OSU gave her so littel, while MU covered full tuition. But it was not the decision making factor. In our city (in-state), kids mostly divided between those who like Miami and those who like OSU. It is very rare to find somebody who loves both. The schools are so different. The only way to determine whihc one fits you is to visit multiple times, talk to current students, possibly stya overnight, walk the campus, get a feel.
Nope, football is NO BIGGY at Miami, they could only try (and they have tried hard without any success) to reach the same status as Miami Hockey team. Yes, ice arena is the place to be at Miami.</p>
<p>For business majors, if you are deciding between MU and OSU this is an easy one. A good friend of mine runs a North American division of Procter and Gamble. I was told P&G only recruits from one public university…Miami. Granted that’s just one company, but job placement is key. Here are the latest numbers given at a Make It Miami event held today: 22,500 applied to the university, 5900 applied to Farmer School of Business, and 800 were direct admits. The selectivity is impressive. I’m certainly not disparaging OSU and I’m sure they offer a fine business education, but the opportunities at MU will set you apart.</p>
<p>I didn’t go to Miami, but my sense is that it offers a much better undergraduate education than OSU. OSU is definitely not focused on undergraduate opportunities. And based on what friends have said, the education at Miami is much more rigorous. OSU is the sort of school where you show up to class, punch in, and get an A. If that’s the experience you’re looking for, then OSU is definitely the right pick.</p>
<p>Though OSU supposedly has rigid admissions criteria, it admits transfer students in droves. In any given class (and those classes are huge), you will typically find that one in three students are transfers. They often are not very well prepared for college.</p>
<p>MOST of the students at your school? Come on now. Look. In NJ, I am quite sure they are more familiar with OSU. They get more press. They are one of the 5 largest schools in the country. But in terms of education of undergraduates, Miami wins, hands down. Look it up.</p>