<p>D got hers as well. No $$ info.</p>
<p>Got in and its my first choice right now… still awaiting to here from other schools though!</p>
<p>this thread would be more helpful to others if people posted their stats together with the fact that they were accepted, wait listed etc…</p>
<p>Using the format I have seen elsewhere:</p>
<p>My S: </p>
<p>Accepted - Early Action</p>
<p>Undecided </p>
<p>ACT: 30
GPA: 4.2UW / 4.7W on 5 scale
Rank: Top 25% at one of the top 10 HS in State
4 AP classes and lots of honors classes</p>
<p>Essays: Pretty Good (I think)
Teacher & Counselor Recommendations: Strong (I think)
EC’s: 4 years varsity tennis (co-captain 2 years - conference medalist multiple years)
4 years basketball - 2 years varsity - last year Conference and Regional Champions
Named to Principal’s Advisory Council
Named Youth member of church’s Vestry/Board of Trustees
Active in several school clubs and organizations</p>
<p>Location: Suburban Chicago, Illinois
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>I was accepted a couple of days ago…</p>
<p>Honors program admittance will be the dealbreaker, I’m afraid :(</p>
<p>Good thing I have email and a computer, because I would be dying to know if I was accepted. No mail yet in FL… how long does it take to get here from Oxford? The big one will be the financial aid info in March. Miami is still my first choice. The envelope was supposed to be mailed on Friday of LAST week. Friday February 5, still no mail</p>
<p>My son got his package yesterday. The postage meter was dated 1/29, but there was a date of 2/1/10 and some letters on the OCR scan line at the bottom. I’m wondering if the mail was somehow embargoed at the Oxford P.O. until 2/1 and then sent out? That still doesn’t explain no mail in FL.</p>
<p>Accepted, but I’m still waiting to hear from a few more places and about fin aid until I can make a firm choice. Loved Miami though.</p>
<p>D received her acceptance package today here in Connecticut. It was not a surprise since she had already checked online. When my S applied and was accepted to Miami a few years back, it was the happiest day of his life up to that point. It seems like yesterday. D committed elsewhere but it brought back very fond memories when I got the “big” envelope out of the mailbox today.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all those accepted!</p>
<p>[Via</a> Miami’s Admission Blog](<a href=“http://miamiuadmission.blogspot.com/2010/02/theres-still-time.html]Via”>Miami University Admission: There's still time!):</p>
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<p>We are in the process of finalizing our college decision. We are soooo excited! My daughter has been accepted at both Univ of Dayton and also Miami Univ with the option of joining their honors programs. I am not sure it is necessary and want to make sure she has an experience in college that is not all studying without any downtime to socilaize and be an active member on campus. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Dayton had offered her a nice merit based 4 yr scholarship that will bring the cost of tuition down to our instate school (Univ of IL) we have not heard from Maimi - I believe they will let us know in March. We know that she did not receive their Honors Scholarship - I am not sure what other Merit ones will be available. Most likely we will not be in the running for need based financial ones. With two in college maybe but it won’t be much…waiting on FAFSA results.</p>
<p>We visited both schools (UD snd MU) on the same day and it was a bit rushed so we did not get a feel for the surrounding Oxford commuinty. Both campus seemed to have a lot to offer and I can see her attending either. Didn’t realize Dayton was a Catholic university until we arrived which a a bit of a bonus for me since we are Catholic. They did not push any religion during the Dayton tour which was good since my daughter had been shying away from the religious schools. Having only attended public schools - she seems a bit intimidated by the schools that really push their religion. Dayton focused more on their community service and overall service projects as their goal.</p>
<p>My questions to those of you in the know…
From what i am reading/hearing - Miami seems to have a rep as being preppy, snobby, ivy league-ish either you fit in or you dont…I did not see that on our tour. I saw a bunch of kids running around in their sweats and pony tails. not in their Burberry’s and penny loafers. The campus was beautiful and the students seemed like any I had seen on our visits to other schools. What was I missing?</p>
<p>To futher confuse us…
A teacher at her school questioned her selection of Miami as a top choice - telling her she wasn’t Jewish or rich so why would she go there? That was a surprise to me? As stated above we are not choosing a school based on religious demographics so we really didn’t research affiliations…Is Miami considered a Jewish majority school? We didn’t discuss any faith based topics on our tour. Do only well-off students attend this school? Will the middle class kids stand out? </p>
<p>Education Major…we live in IL and the majority of education degrees earned in our state for Primary Ed would be K-8 - To my knowledge Miami offers only a Pre-K thru 3 degree and then jumps into Middle School options with concentration on certain teaching subjects. Has anyone out there attended UD or Miami that lived in IL and came back to teach here? My daughter is interested in teaching 3 or 4th grade if she has a choice.</p>
<p>sorry its so long…she told me last night that Miami has moved up to one and Dayton is second. I want to make sure she will be happy and is making the right choice.</p>
<p>Very interesting tale, cbcollege. I’ll comment.</p>
<p>First off, let me say that I am a huge Dayton booster, but also a likely Miami attendee. Both schools have benefits and drawbavks, so I’ll elaborate on both from my perspective of being a Middletown native, Trotwood worker with both parents holding undergraduate and profesional degrees from these two institutions only and as a perspective student myself.</p>
<p>First off, atmoshpere/campus is very different at the schools. Miami seems a little more rushed/busy, richer and snobbier while UD is more 'chill, for lack of a better phrase. Miamians dress to a tee for even the earliest classes, and get their greatest pleasures from a backward glance from members of the opposite sex (note that I say OPPOSITE - as Princeton Review stated, homosexuality IS NOT an option here. That may be a benefit or drawback, as such an atmosphere is much more traditional and conservative, but not as flexible, accepting, or liberal). Races do not mix. Miami students are in-style, sociable extroverts, but generally appear to be irresponsible “trust-fund” type kids that still rely on Mommy and Daddy. The campus itself is considered to be among the most beautiful in Ohio, and its beauty spreads into its dorms and halls. The atmosphere small-town, brink of nowhere with little to do and no way to escape, since there is no transportation to anywhere and no other colleges nearby. Still, Miami in a way is a “city” itself, because of its large size.</p>
<p>UD, on the other hand, is laid-back, very middle of the road, service and fun oriented, and rolls with the punches. Students roll out of bed wearing sweats and flip flops on their way to class, but can be professional if need be. UD, although in a large city, has an isolated campus that is also rather peaceful and tranquil with few cars. The campus is not considered to be as pretty as Miami’s, but I personally prefer it because there are no streets running straight through like at MU, and the buildings blend well together and look/feel distinctive. Also, UD’s 90+% on-campus living rate (it’s late, don’t remember the correct term) caused by its unique “house” housing systems (buying neighborhood houses for junior/senior housing) is a draw, as UD housing is superior, but food is not as good. A “college town” atmosphere is present on Brown Street. Still, the city is right up the street with many funky neighborhoods and stores, cultural opportunities, museums, heritage, architecture, and opportunities. The RTA system, used by almost all UD students, can also take students to an awesome lifestyle center and Southwest Ohio’s largest mall, among many metroparks and other cool area attractions.</p>
<p>Winner (atmosphere) - U Dayton
Winner (campus) - tie</p>
<p>Reputation - Thirty years ago, it ws Miami without a doubt. UD was where kids went to get drunk (it IS Catholic school, after all…), and Miami was where kids with big aspirations who dressed the part chose to go. However, UD has cleaned up its image tremendously like many other Ohio private schools (Denison, for example…), and its rep. has been steadily rising to meet its goals. The school now has quite possibly the largest focus of any doctoral university in this nation, is growing rapidly with such acquisitions as the NCR HQ for conversion into their research institute and a new engineering school in the works. It also is a perennial favorite for being a place where students are happy, active, tolerant, and take part in their community by Princeton Review and others. Def. the better of the two for “left-brained” occupations like Engineering and anything involving heavy math or physical science.</p>
<p>Miami has had some weird, tough years recently. First, they get lambasted for horrendous treatment of minorities, then recently their reputation fell drastically (13 spots on USNWR- the msot of any college- EVER), and now they are fighting desperately to maintain top students while many more now choose Ohio U or OSU due to clear merit scholarship/honors admittance requirements, among other factors. Still, money is poured into the school like none other, with an almost-total revamp or reworking of every building starting on 2000-ish with construction of an engineering school and a psychology building, to completion (maybe- they could always build something else) of a new student center in 2014. The school’s gems are its life science, psych/social science, and business programs, all of which are superior to UD’s. Honestly, with the amount of investment in the school, paired with a new outlook on student affairs, could work wonders.</p>
<p>Winner (math/science) UD
Winner (all esle) Miami</p>
<p>Honors Programs - Miami’s is significantly better. UD did have an awesome program back when they had Berry Scholars, but those days are over. No word yet on what parts of the program will remain as it is dissolved into regular honors.</p>
<p>Winner - Miami</p>
<p>Programs - Larger school = more programs. Miami, IMO for me at least, has some stellar programs that NO other school offers, thus why it is now personally my first choice. Dayton has many great programs, as well (like Flyer Entreprises and UDRI), so it depends almost entirely on the individual student. Look over each college’s opportunities, clubs, and other requirements/programs and decide. I used to have my own personal reasons posted, but they seem to have magically dosappeared ( stupid ergonomically inefficient smartphone…)</p>
<p>Winner - none.</p>
<p>Hoped this helps. Good Luck!!!</p>
<p>To cbcollege; I will try to respond to your concerns as best I can. I have a current sophomore in the Honors program at Miami and a current HS senior recently accepted into the Honors program. Miami will most likely be her choice as well, but she is also liking some very small LACs that we have yet to hear from. I have friends whose sons and daughters are recent grads or are current students at MU. They all love it there. My daughter had some concerns about the students being “snobby” as she had heard the same remarks. We have found no truth to the comments. Her first semester she commented that she wouldn’t want to be anywhere else! There were 8 students from her graduation class that went to Miami that year, which was unusually high, they all loved it, (but all went their own way) while many students from other schools were transferring after one semester. </p>
<p>I recently saw that MU is 52% Catholic, though I thought it was in the common data set for MU, but didn’t see it just now when I went to check my #'s, so don’t hold me to that exact number. There is a RC church uptown with masses on Sunday evening, which seems to appeal to college students more than Sunday am. My D doesn’t go every week, or maybe not even very often. She wanted to “take a break.”</p>
<p>I did not buy any special clothing when she started Miami. She wears her jeans, T’s, sweatshirts. She got some UGG boots for her first Christmas because she "can throw them on quickly without socks and without thinking of what shoes to wear for the weather for an early class. (She wears the same ones this year) She bought Sperry topsiders for the same reason only warmer weather. She definitely throws her hair in a pony or wears a headband to get out the door quickly. She recently told me that MU students tend to dress up a little more on the weekends if they go out at night (uptown). She said the girls have a lot of fun trading clothes to go out. “Dressing up” I took to mean, dress jeans (not torn on the bottom) and a fancier top, as opposed to a sweatshirt. She does have a pair of black pants, khakis and one or two skirts that she got for rush. She did join a sorority. I think she enjoys it, but it is not the biggest part of her life at Miami. It allowed her to meet more girls outside her Honors program, but her friends from Honors still seem to be her best friends. </p>
<p>If you have looked at their website recently, MU posted their merit money for this upcoming year. I don’t know if there will be more with other private scholarships or Miami grant money. This is new this year and this past year was new from the year before. Dayton and Miami seem to pull students from a similar SES. My area sends students to both of these schools. Although MU is public, its rural setting makes it feel in many ways like a LAC, which some might perceive as making it feel more “elitist”… This might scare some away while making others attracted to it. </p>
<p>I don’t know the specifics of their Education program. That would seem unusual to omit those higher elementary grades. Are you sure about that? I would call and ask if I were you. Their Education department recently did extremely well with their review for accreditation. More information is online re that.</p>
<p>In closing, when we went to D#1’ orientation my husband and I were very impressed with the passion of the speakers speeches on the philosophy of the school. My husband looked at me and said, “She can stay home. I want to go here!” (He is a grad of a highly selective LAC) We have not been disappointed since. Our D has grown into an independent responsible woman in a short time.</p>
<p>Good luck in making your choice. You can PM me if you want to ask me anything specific.</p>
<p>Our son is likely applying to Miami next year and I was wondering what kinds of stats it takes to earn Honors acceptance. He has a 3.7 GPA with a lot of AP/Honors coursework, B/C Calc/AP Chem/APUSH/APLit/…etc. He took the SAT in January for the first time and got an 800M/670CR/630W(ouch)…but will probably take it again…pretty good extracurriculars…math team/high performance state math competitions/mission work/Academy of Finance/Nomination to Leadership Council/Cross Country/Basketball…but I wouldn’t say hes a big “joiner”. I think Honors programming would make him very happy…but does he stand a chance?</p>
<p>cbcollege: I read through your letter quickly and just noticed that I did not address the Honors program and study time commitments. My D chose to live in the Honors dorm, lived in Tappan and loved it. There are multiple study rooms in the basement and did not have to leave the building if she needed a quiet place to study. The basement also has a full kitchen; the boys were cooking pancake breakfasts for the girls the first week of school. She had a lot of fun there. The dorm was co-ed which my daughter liked as she said it was easier at first to make friends with the boys. No surprise there–girls can be a little tougher at first to loosen up–my daughter included. She wanted to live with the sorority her second year so that she could experience that life as well. Next fall she will be in Luxembourg and then move into an apt. across the street from the campus for second semester–back with her friends from Honors. She would like to be an RA before she leaves so maybe she will be back on campus for her last year. She loves her Honors courses. Some are more work, others are not, but they are also some of her favorite courses. They all have 20 students or less with good discussions and interesting professors. Last spring she took a very large load that included 2 honors classes. The one class required a lot of reading which stressed my D some even though she is a rapid reader. At the end of the course the professor mentioned that he had never used those books before, realized that the load was too heavy and would reduce it next semester. They all survived. D got an A or A-. Even then she managed to have social time–just not as much as she would have liked! From what I can see, the kids work hard to get the work done so they have time to socialize. D belongs to a dance team, works out at rec center, does service projects, Big Brother/ Big Sisters, is active with music ensembles, concerts, choral and a cappella groups (not always as a performer, but also as a part of the audience, supporting her friends), sorority, helps with recruitment through MUSA and still manages to go out on weekends and meet friends for meals during the week. I would highly recommend Honors to anyone who is eligible. </p>
<p>To OHKID: Your comment about MU having a poor tolerance for gays seems to be unfounded based on the comments made last fall by Brendan Burke, the senior student who tragically passed away in an auto accident one week ago. Brendan was the student manager for Miami’s #1 Hockey team and gay. He came out publicly last fall making statements about the support he received from Miami. He was not afraid to come out on national television (His father, Brian Burke, is the general manager for the Toronto Maple Leaves and current manager for the the US Men’s Olympic Hockey team.) His video can be easily pulled up on line for viewing. </p>
<p>IMO some minority groups do not like the rural setting of Miami and may be more drawn to urban campuses.</p>
<p>To debrockman: The requirements for Honors is listed on their website. Based on those numbers your son would be invited to be in Honors. He is on the GPA edge for $$ as they list it for next year. Remember, the writing part of the SAT carries less weight. He should try to get that up just the same, maintain or increase his GPA, and consider taking the ACT if it is offered in his area. Some kids just perform better on it.</p>
<p>I would be happy to answer any questions about our Miami experience. If I don’t know the answer–I’ll ask my D. We are very happy with her choice.</p>
<p>We have several friends with kids at Miami. They all love it. The campus is a perfect size to offer a lot and still small enough to not feel like bedlam. It was the first visit my son left saying, “I could really see myself there.” Although stretch (big) is still Vandy, Miami doesn’t feel like a “settle”.</p>
<p>WOW !!! Thank you all for taking the time to reply to my post with such detail. This is exactly what I needed and what I want my D to review. I really appreciate the attention to facts and numbers. I am feeling better about her decision and have even ordered a little Miami wear to surprise her with next week. We go for a visit next month and I will make sure to talk to the Education Dept regarding our concerns with teaching in IL. I am also hoping she can have a chance to talk to students that are not tour guides to get their perspective as well.
If she decides on MU she will be the only one from her school so the ease of meeting new people and making friends will be important to me. I am sure I will have more questions so if it is ok I will PM you if I come across more.
Have a great week!</p>
<p>We’re still six months away from applications, but Miami is certainly on the list. Would some of you who were accepted be willing to post your stats? (My guess is DS would not be an honors candidate.)</p>
<p>D is junior in Honors, continue loving it, used to live in Tappan, Wells, (you do not need to be in Honors to live in Honors dorms) and currently in College suits. If you did not see them, strongly recommend. I call them luxury accomodations for college kids. Great school, very pretty campus, in case there are pre-meds here, very impressive pre-med advisory, lots of opportunities for top caliber students.</p>
<p>Here are my stats. I hope this helps!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted as a Journalism major</p>
<p>Female, Los Angeles, CA
SAT: 1920 (CR: 640, M: 590, W: 690)
SAT II: 650 Literature, 550 U.S. History
GPA (UW): 3.5
Rank: top 10% at a large public school
APs: AP Spanish 4, AP European History, AP English Language, AP American History, AP Government, AP Literature
Senior Year: AP Gov, AP Lit, Statistics, Honors Economics, Newspaper & Yearbook</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
School Newspaper: 9-12, News Editor junior year, Editor in Chief senior year
School Yearbook: 11-12, Jr Copy Editor junior year, Senior Copy Editor senior year
Youth and Government: 10-12
Model United Nations: delegate (9) and volunteer youth advisor (10)
International Club: (9) trips to costa rica and spain
Students Take Action in Darfur Club: (9) founder and president</p>
<p>Work Experience:
Einstein Project @ local university</p>
<p>Ethnicity: White</p>