Miami Full Tuition Scholarship vs Georgetown

juillet
Thu, 02 Apr 2015 00:26:42 +0000

So the thing to remember is you’re comparing two very excellent universities. While Georgetown is generally recognized as an elite university, the University of Miami is also an excellent place with great students and a great education. The students there are above-average; 2/3 of them were in the top 10% of their high school class and they tend to score way above average on the SAT. I don’t think you will feel alienated for being smart, as the vast majority of your classmates will also be very smart.

It looks like Greek participation at Miami is about 16-17%. The party scene probably isn’t dominated by Greek life; they do have a reputation for being a party school, but it is in Miami. You probably don’t have to party if you don’t want to!

Whether you are a leader is going to be based upon your ambition moreso than anything. I would imagine that there will be far more competition for SGA and similar leadership positions at Georgetown than UMIami; still, it’s always more difficult to stand out in college than in high school. There, you are among the smartest; in college, you might be one of many very intelligent students. But feeling like “just another student” is actually pretty nice in that environment. You WANT to be surrounded by a lot of other very smart students!

If your parents are willing and able to pay for Georgetown with no trouble, then I think this is really going to be about a fit choice. I don’t think that my personal opinion should count for much because we are two very different people. But if I were making this choice, and I knew that my parents could comfortably pay for my tuition because they had the whole thing saved already, I think I might lean towards Georgetown. But, if your parents offer that tuition money for you to use after college - let’s say, as a down payment on a house, or to pay for a graduate degree - that changes the calculus and I would totally go to UMiami then.

You really can’t go wrong!