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<p>I would hope that as an OSU alum you would know to be overly cautious of making “always” or “never” statements.</p>
<p>Close family member went to Miami; she was able to work with a leading scholar in the field on Medieval manuscripts. Went on to get major fellowships for graduate schools. Oh yes, from that sub-par school of Miami. They have professors down there too. </p>
<p>As far as her experience there on the whole: She didn’t like some of the mentality or the small town, but she felt her classes were rigorous and the vast majority were taught by tenured faculty. (I can’t say the same thing about my OSU experience, though the experience was positive on the whole and I think OSU has many qualities.)</p>
<p>Of course, she might have been able to do the same thing at Ohio State, or get the same graduate fellowships. Just as you might have been able to go on and do whatever if you’d been at Miami. Who knows. That’s my point–you can’t make sweeping generalizations about OSU’s superiority and Miami’s inferiority. There are obviously good things and bad things about both schools. They offer a different experience. But one is not doomed academically just because they decided to go some place that’s not OSU.</p>
<p>I looked at your past posts, and most of the ones dealing with Miami are extremely negative and bitter. Why is that? Bad experience in Oxford? It really seems to be something of an obsession with you. It seems very personal.</p>