My high school guidance counselor told me to go as far south as I possibly could since walking to class in the winter sucked. Being limited to an in-state institution and not wanting to go to UC, I only applied to Miami.
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I bounced around to several schools(mainly due to football). Went from a small NAIA school to Akron. From there I visited almost every MAC school. Miami was the first school where I truly felt comfortable the best decision I made since I played two years for the club football team
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My 2nd choice was IU but once I visited Miami it was no contest. Only applied to Miami. Decided IU was too big.
I made the Goldilocks decision to choose Miami over Ohio State and Denison.
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Looking forward to the future mollautt/Mac Miami Merger. It will obviously be an October wedding.
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A merger of two of the great Miami houses. May this union bless us with a 6’8" power forward.
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Welcome O-Beefy one. Nice to have some size on the fan team.
lol thanks!
it was a great time making the national title game in 2012
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U of Illinois vs Miami.
Have a young relative who this month has to choose between Miami, Mizzou, Va Tech, Clemson, Colorado, Penn State, Iowa State and Baylor. Miami’s giving him a really nice aid package (he could pay for 4 years at Miami out-of-state to 2 years at Clemson, or 1.5 years at Colorado), so I think that will be a big determinant of him picking MU. Also, he wants to go into Data Science and Miami’s program seems very appealing to him.
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The Triad
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I grew up knowing that I would attend Miami. Family school. I had 3 first cousins and a sister and a future wife all at Miami while I was a student. Two aunts and my Dad were all grads.
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Goldilocks over IU (too big) and DePauw/Butler (too small). Felt the well described “this is what college looks like” feeling so many experience while walking around academic quad on a scorching hot July 2010 day.
Kentucky. Born in Lexington, mother was a grad and my grandfather lived two blocks off campus. I even had a dorm assignment. Changed my mind at the last minute.
My hope was to go to UNC-Chapel Hill, but their admissions folks very politely made it clear that my chances were pretty much nil as an out-of-state applicant. So it was between Miami & Wake Forest. I loved Wake’s campus (and the warmer weather), but decided I wanted a larger school. Of course, the fact that I could go to Miami tuition-free (my Dad was an employee), live on-campus (vs at home), get a great business education, continue my family’s many generations affiliation with the school, and stay well within my comfort zone certainly helped! In retrospect, I might have been better off going away to college (I didn’t work that hard at Miami either socially or academically…I already knew a ton of students from Oxford and had several professors who were in my parents’ supper club!), but Miami got me a great job right out of college (w/ P&G) and I met some wonderful life-long friends! Plus, as others have mentioned, whenever I visited another campus, to just couldn’t measure up to Miami’s.
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You must have been a pretty good student. P/G is a hard gig to land.
I may be the only Westchester County New Yorker that chose Miami when they were eight years old and had no previous connection to Oxford.
I watched or read a story about Ara, Paul Brown and Woody and was hooked. It was 1964.
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Oregon, Temple, & BUGS. You can guess my major.
LMU, Chapman, and USD. Don’t ask how Miami got included in those SoCal schools but I got it recommended and liked what I saw. Miami was the far cheaper option out of those for similar (if not better) academic ratings for the business schools. Only worry was I’d have to work in the Midwest (which I wasn’t completely opposed too) but I ended up with an internship which lead to a job back home in San Diego. I’d like to think I made the right choice and had a better experience I had at Miami compared to what I could have at any of those smaller schools.
Was it pornography like mine?
Lie to me if you must.
Pitt, Penn State, Washington and Jefferson, and American U.
Miami’s business school clinched it.