<p>Opinons?</p>
<p>Thinking this may be the school where I end up. Got $32,650 a year, and only had a 3.1UW GPA and a 2100SAT.</p>
<p>Probably one of the better schools I'll get into with my low GPA.
applied to
-UMiami
-USC
-NYU
-UWashington
-Tulane
-CU-Boulder
-SMU
-UGA</p>
<p>I applied there EA, and had I not gotten into my ED school I would have given it serious thought. It may not carry a lot of prestige (along the lines of other southern schools, such as Emory or Vandy), but those in academia know that it certainly is a great school on the rise with smart kids and ever-increasing SAT scores.</p>
<p>Do you have any idea what you want to study? Their marine program is supposedly world class, as well as their architecture program.</p>
<p>DPC</p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance and the great package you were offered! </p>
<p>My daughter is a freshmen at Miami in their Marine program and LOVES it!</p>
<p>The school is much better academically than we ever dreamed it would be. There are lots of top kids attending and the faculty and staff are really focused on the students.</p>
<p>Good luck with your decision.</p>
<p>Wow, $32,000 a year, that’s a hefty amount. Congratulations!
UMiami is really good at sports, right?</p>
<p>$32,650 * 4 = $130,600.</p>
<p>There is nothing…sorry, let me rephrase that</p>
<p>There is NOTHING that you will see, learn, experience or be exposed to at those other schools that is worth an extra $130,600.</p>
<p>Fair or unfair, Miami is perceived by Floridians as the party school for rich kids who didn’t get into UF.</p>
<p>I think it is a pretty good school, but not worth the debt you will accumulate.</p>
<p>ehh, alot of REALLY smart kids from my school are going to Miami. Kids who got waitlisted at Duke, Ivys, and the like.</p>
<p>“Fair or unfair, Miami is perceived by Floridians as the party school for rich kids who didn’t get into UF.”</p>
<p>Unfair, but that didn’t stop you from repeating another McUF “Big Lie” eh?</p>
<p>Too bad the holes in your argument are so big, you can drive an M-1 Abrams through:</p>
<p>Party school? Not saying there are no parties, but compared to UF? OK, at UM you can do the The 'Grove and SoBe, so maybe that is why Hef likes it, but the students are not like those in Hogtown passing out on Bud every night.</p>
<p>Rich? Yeah, sure ask all the Miami parents on the board about Robin Leach hanging with them. Most of the UM students have scholarships or need based aid.</p>
<p>Didn’t get into UF? Er, hate to break this to you but most of Miami’s applicants and enrollees are Out of State. They are more likely to have applied to NYU, Northwestern or USC then McUF.</p>
<p>Oh, why don’t you look at the two schools CDS’? Too bad that UF is behind UM in standardized test scores…You take that Val from Highlands or Pasco County, I will take the smarter NY Regents student every time.</p>
<p>Yep, you get what you pay for at McUF…Take a number, sit in class with 300 of your best buddies (or better yet, you get an online class), learn that the Bull Gator boosters REALLY run the school, enjoy the Hari Krishna’s singing on campus and tell everybody that a French Fry sculpture is the coolest thing ever created.</p>
<p>Well said BaghDAD, though I have to say that the Robin Leach reference is probably lost on most everyone except us (really) old geezers.</p>
<p>Ryan- the perception of Miami being full of “rich kids” is that it is a private school and UF is public. With the “Bright Futures” scholarship, UF is highly affordable to many more students. </p>
<p>Obviously, being form FL, there is friction between the two schools. UF is a great school with a great reputation and so is Miami. There are brilliant kids at both. My own son would likely have been accepted to UF without a problem but without any merit or other aid, and was given full merit tuition to attend Miami (academically based). </p>
<p>By the way, outside of FL, no one cares about UF/Miami differences!!!</p>
<p>As a Gator alum it pains me to say that BaghDad makes some very good points.</p>
<p>From my perspective, I think that the University of Miami is a good school. The school doesn’t have a negative connotation to me, personally. Also the $32,600 a year is a big bonus. You have a great oppurtunity because even if you thought you might like somewhere else better, the cost of tuition is a burden that may make your experience far worse than at UM. Congratulations!</p>
<p>BTW where are you from?</p>
<p>The University of Miami has a great reputation. If I were offered the NMF scholarship at USC ($18,000), vs. the $32,500 you’ve been offered at Miami, I’d take Miami. Even if you have to borrow 50% of the remaing $20,000 that it will cost you to attend Miami, your total student debt will be $40,000, a manageable amount to be repaid in 10 or 20 years … less than the cost of a BMW 3 series.</p>
<p>I feel like UMiami is a good school for me, pretty surprised I got in/got the package I did with my stats.</p>
<p>I mean a 3.1 and a 2100 is pretty good but not that great. I got waitlisted at Northeastern (really surprised me) and Tulane, but have gotten into UMiami and SMU.</p>
<p>Oh and I"m from FL</p>
<p>take it and run, baby. your decision was made easy for you by a generous merit scholarhip officer!</p>
<p>Oh, you never answered my question about how much of the $32K is scholarship/grant, and how much is loan – that complicates things considerably. If $10k per year is loan, that would double your loan indebtedness, and I might instead recommend University of Florida.</p>
<p>umm I believe 26k is scholarship/grant</p>
<p>Vinceh,
“the Robin Leach reference is probably lost on most everyone except us (really) old geezers.”</p>
<p>Yeah, I thought it was like one of those “Family Guy” 80’s references that baffle my son, but leave me laughing really hard…“Caviar Wishes and Champagne Dreams!” </p>
<p>C’mon, we are not too old are we? ;-)</p>