Univ Dayton vs Miami Oxford OH

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<p>OHKID…</p>

<p>Why are you going to MiamiU? You can afford to go anywhere. I thought you were going to load up that brinks truck of yours and head out of state. :)</p>

<p>Did your parents put the kabosh on going OOS?</p>

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<p>^LOL</p>

<p>Let’s just say that the Auto industry is not so hot right now and our assets are tied up…</p>

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<p>^^</p>

<p>LOL…are you a Ford?</p>

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<p>^No…</p>

<p>(I wish :D)</p>

<p>Our company is just a lowly Tier 2 supplier of theirs… ;)</p>

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<p>So, are you going to Miami U (which is a fine school, but I know you had quite the list before).</p>

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<p>^99.9% chance…</p>

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<p>Both schools are very good places to be–my sons have friends at boyh schools. One thing you might want to consider, though, is travel/accessibility. Dayton has a nice, easy to use airport with flights to Chicago–it’s considerably harder to get back and forth to Miami, if this factor is important to you.</p>

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<p>Both schools are very good places to be–my sons have friends at both schools. One thing you might want to consider, though, is travel/accessibility. Dayton has a nice, easy to use airport with flights to Chicago–it’s considerably harder to get back and forth to Miami, if this factor is important to you.</p>

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<p>I think it might be a bit harsh to say that Miami’s reputation is falling like a lead brick. Our high school is a blue ribbon school in Indiana with very tough academics and we have sent a lot of top students there. I might add, they all really enjoy it there.
They don’t have a lot of diversity, but that doesn’t tarnish their academic reputation. They are a state school. For a state school, by virtue of their smallish size and low graduate population, they are respected as an affordable, quality alternative to more massive state U’s. They do what they do very well. They educate undergraduates in a relatively safe, nonthreatening environment. They actually have a very high retention rate for a state school. They also place a very high number of students in grad school. After many visits to huge public and small private LACs, Miami is a nice “in the middle” environment that my son felt very comfortable in. Unfortunately, he is out of state! He would likely be a merit scholarship contender…he’ll have to be to go, but if we were in state, for the money, it’s a great choice.</p>