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Does anyone know anything about the University of Miami. I got an e-mail from them telling me to check them out because their programs matched those of the desired programs on a survey I had to take at school.
Does anyone know what kind of programs they offer? Is it a good school? All that jazz. I figure I better start thinking about college. It may be three years away, but it is never too early to think about that sort of thing.
Thanks, in advance, for any help that can be provided.
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I went to a different school in Miami, but I'm fairly familiar with their campus--at least, as it looked fifteen years ago.
Their strengths, as I understand it, are marine biology and music. I don't know about their journalism program, but their newspaper is pretty decent-looking, as I recall. (I was the editor of my college newspaper, so I regularly read other college newspapers to compare notes. UM's is a big daily type of thing, I think. Looks like a real paper, instead of some freebie community newspaper.)
They also have great sports. Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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I'm having a slight amount of difficulty wading through the website in an attempt to find the information I'm looking for. But it looks like a nice enough school. I don't now, though.
Everyone I talk to says that the University of Missouri, Mizzou, has the best Journalism and Creative Writing Departments in the country.
Ic- Did Cor go to UM? So, if I get an oppurtunity, I should talk to him, eh?
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UM's not actually a very large university at all.
That said, it would have been a bit large for me when I graduated from high school. But big universities offer a lot of stuff that little universities can't match. (The trade-off, of course, is the intimacy, the sense of belonging and being known.)
UCF, UF, and FSU are all larger than UM.
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I'm not really interested in going to a big school. If I go to Mizzou, then I'll be going to a big school. But it isn't something I'm looking for.
By the way, is the University of Miami actually in Miami?
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UM is in Coral Gables, which is in Greater Miami.
Technically, Coral Gables is its own municipality, but it is inside the area that people clearly mean when they say "Miami." Certainly it is closer to downtown than where I lived, and I always said I lived in Miami.
Coral Gables is a beautiful and pricey part of Miami, filled with large mediterranean homes. (UM ain't cheap, btw.)
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Oh...sorry. You meant Cor. I thought you were saying Cor as in short for Corwin. Sorry 'bout that.
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Steve, I know nothing about UM other than the fact that there is also a Miami University in Ohio, not related to UM.
But I do know that you'll eventually be getting emails and physical mail and maybe even phone calls from LOTS of other colleges - the recruitment/admissions offices tend to spam. The flood of mail for me started my junior year, which was a lot of fun because I got more mail during my junior and senior years than I had in my whole life up till that point.
I think it's really cool that you're starting to think about college this early. But I guess my point is that you don't necessarily have to expend lots of energy researching a school just because they contact you - if you try to do that with all the other ones that will contact you too, it'll be really overwhelming.
Have you looked at the Peterson's site yet? Or the Princeton Review one? Those are both good for helping narrow down your choices so you can find schools that fit what you want. Posts: 952 | Registered: Jun 2005
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I know two people going to Mizzou for journalism, one from St Louis, the other from Bloomington, IN. But steve, don't start worrying about colleges yet, that's for junior year, so save any worries till at least sophomore. Colleges will try to whore you there, they may or may not have actually read your survey, so pay attention, but don't think "they love me, they really love me" every post card you get. (though I had one following me around that I later found out was because they wanted my cousin who was a year younger than me to go there, it was weird).
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This is worth highlighting. A girl I used to date lives in Miami (she just graduated from UM) and her one bedroom apartment is $1700 a month. Of course, she's downtown in a nice place. Right off campus is considerably cheaper. I'll ask her what how much she paid in school for rent the next time I see her.
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Hmm . . . are you sure? Right off campus would be Coral Gables. This would generally be the most expensive part of Miami. Kendall or something similarly farther out would be cheaper.
Anyway, though, I was talking tuition. UM is a private school, and a rather expensive one at that.
On the other hand, if you think you might want to stay in South Florida, graduating from UM does open up a lot of local doors, I have seen. Miami's power elite tend to accept any UM graduate as one of their own.
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By off campus I mean not in the dorms. I don't actually know where the off campus housing is, i.e. where all the kids live.
They may all commute from farther out like you said. I should really have paid attention when she talked about that stuff.
I want to say tuition was about 15K per semester, but it mighta been 30. Either way, that's a lot of money.
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I've looked into off-campus housing at UM, and it's actually not that bad. I was considering going down there for grad school an getting an apartment with my brother. Also, that way I can scope out his future doctor friends.
Most places have cheaper housing around college campuses.
Loyola Chicago is 9000? That's way too big. I like ridiculously tiny schools.
Also, it may be tough to get around UM without a car. I shall have to ask my brother about that, but the expense of keeping a car is definitely something to keep in mind. Besides, you really need a car for Miami, anyway.
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For on campus, UM has a free shuttle. I haven't used it, but Clemson, my grad school, also had one and it was fine for getting around. Off campus, well, there's a lot of stuff nearby, but you'll either want a car or a friend with one. Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
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If you're looking at colleges I would sit down and consider what you want before you start looking at individual schools. Decide approximate size (I enjoyed a school with 1,500 undergrads; don't be fooled by various 'student teacher ratios'), approximate tuition (unfortunately it was nearly $40,000 a year), travel distance and expenses, possible majors (as a journalist you might get a degree in journalism or in English or in history, or in political science etc.), statistics getting into grad schools (if that's where you might head), history of financial aid (how much of the need is met), and available scholarships.
Once you have a general profile of the type of school you want to go to, and the brochures start pouring, just set aside those that don't fit close enough to the criterion you've set. It wouldn't hurt to have family members help. Tell them what you're looking for and why, and have them sift through the piles. I had about 11 shoe boxes of brochures to go through. The school I ended up going to, I had set into the discard pile, but my mom pulled it out and had me take a second look. They had some key features so I held onto it. Then they offered to wave my application fee, so I applied. Then they gave me a large scholarship, and it ended up being one of two schools I applied to, even though I'd never heard of it before I read their brochure. The other advice, if at all possible go visit the campus. I was almost certain I wanted to go to University of Montana, then I went to visit, and hated it completely and entirely. I went to visit the other school, and loved every minute of it. So a visit can give you an idea of the atmosphere. I'd also recommend applying to more than two schools, it's just a good idea, but remember application fees are expensive (anywhere from $35 to $100 a piece depending on the type of school), so it's better to whittle down to a few good schools that you are sincerely interested in than to apply to a lot of potentials, when you're only going to go to one. Oh, one more thing, you can usually check out a school's admission statistics too, so be sure to make sure you're eligible as far as GPA, SAT/ACT, community involvement etc. to go there.
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Yeah, planning visits is VERY important. As good as a school may look on paper, it may not feel right once you actually get there. Also, see if you can arrange to stay in a dorm with students for a night. That'll be a big help.
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I just want to caution you to be sure you're applying to the right school. Miami University is in Ohio, for example, and has nothing whatsoever to do with sunshine or warmth in the winter.
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But I think the email he got probably was from the University of Miami, which is in Miami, FL. Not from Miami of Ohio, which is in Ohio.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: I always heard that the University of Miami was a party school.
I've never understood what constitutes a party school, and I've never thought that was a valid reason to choose to go or not to go there.
If you want to go to college to study, you can do that at any school. Also, if you want to go to college to get wasted every night and have crazy sex, you can do that pretty much anywhere, too.
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No, Miami U in Miami Ohio is a top ranked party school.
I should know.
I used to supply entertainments for the parties.
Hey, its the middle of Ohio. What else is there to do but drink? That is not my idea, but the thoughts of many going to that school, and some of the faculty at the time.
They are working on improving, being more academic and less alcoholic.
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My senior year I got a lot of letters from Centre College in Kentucky. And it looked really good. All of their brochures were great, the people talking on the cds they sent me looked like people I could be friends with. It was one of my top schools. So my dad and I drove done and visited it.
Centre College is located in a town of 15000 people. The nearest bookstore is 60 miles away. The town is run down and dying. As for the college itself, the class I sat in on had a professor who was, as far as I could tell completely disconnected with reality. The library, which they were quite proud of had about the same number of books as my public library at home. All of the people we talked to were very ditzy. We were informed that nobody ever dated anyone else at the college because there just weren't enough people. The campus was ugly. It was in general a horrible experience.
I'm so glad I visited it. I can't imagine being stuck there for 4 years *shudder*.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: University of Texas in Austin has 60,000 undergrad.
That's a tad big.
While UT is big, it's not quite that big. It has an enrollment of 50,000 total students of which about 39,000 are undergraduates. UT was the largest campus in the country a year or two ago and since enrollment has only decreased by about a thousand, I'd expect whichever school is the largest (Ohio State?) to be just over 50,000. That being said, 50,000 students is still an insanely big school.
Also, to clarify about the two Miamis. The University of Miami is in Florida; Miami University is in Ohio. Other than knowing where they are adn which has the better football team, I know nothing more about either school.
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