<p>Anyone that is wondering about miami compared to xavier.
Xavier is a growing school the year is 2007 and it is just starting to get the academic reputation is deserves, students come from all over the world and u.s. It has horrible looking girls, horrible food, it is in a hardcore ghetto and everyone fears for their safety. The parties suck and anytime that there is one it will get broken up by the cops or it will run out of beer by the time you get there the academics are the only plus of the school it has good academics and good professors who are very bright. Miami on the other hand is almost the exact opposite of xavier. It has a excellent party scene with great greek life, great uptown area where there are plenty of good resturants and bars geared towards Miami students. It is a beautiful campus and every single girl is drop dead gorgeous, it is preppy but it’s a good clean look preppy and not the type of being too preppy where you will not fit in for who you are. If you are a gothic headbanger and have tattos all over you will probably not fit into the stereotype of miami. The great part about Miami is it is a great academic school probably the best in ohio. If you are looking to get into business it is the best place for that…with a top 15 undergrad business school in the nation. The campus looks like a ivy league school. The food is voted one of the best in the nation. the best way to describe miami is a public school with a private school feel. You get the best of both worlds with the school where you get all the benefits of a state public university with the benefits of a private liberal arts school too.</p>
<p>Florida</p>
<p>Univ. of Florida- Best public academics, though they tend to skimp on the liberal arts. Engineering, architecture= stand-out programs. Awesome grad programs. Very spirited in the way of football, practically everyone bleeds blue and orange. </p>
<p>U. of Miami- Outstanding medical & journalism programs, very expensive … not the best school academically, but it’s getting there.</p>
<p>FIU- Generally thought of as a transfer school, or for people who want to save money. Grad programs are good, undergrad is decent.</p>
<p>New College- Very liberal artsy, in a somewhat rural area (Sarasota). Supposed to have outstanding academics, but I don’t know anyone who has gone to school there.</p>
<p>UCF, FAU, USF, Gulf Coast- 2nd, 3rd, and 4th to UF. Academically ok, great for partying.</p>
<p>FSU- 2nd choice to UF, pretty people, ok academics. VERY party-oriented.</p>
<p>Joisey…</p>
<p>Rutgers–The guidance counselors like to call it a good school, but we all know it sucks. Everybody’s safety.
William Paterson–Will accept pretty much anybody.
Princeton–Need I explain?
Drew–Pretty campus, wonderful Shakespeare productions. Liberal arts. That’s about all I know about it.
Farleigh Dickinson–Right up there with William Paterson.
College of St. Elizabeth–My uncle teaches there. I only know two people who have gone there, and neither was particularly intelligent. Girls school.
NJIT–Reputation getting better.
Stevens Institute of Technology–Beautiful campus from what I hear. Also improving reputation. This was where all the MIT or Olin hopefuls who didn’t get in went last year.
TCNJ–(What kind of college includes the “the” in its acronym but not the “of”?? It bothers me.) Apparently a good school now. Cheap, from what I hear.
Monmouth–Party school.
Centenary–Pretty, non-competitive.<br>
Seton Hall–Good sports?
Ramapo–Trying to follow TCNJ and get better.
Montclair State–They’re fixing up their campus, and it’s very pretty, but academically still eh.
Caldwell/Kean/Rowan/Rider–I don’t know anything about them, except that they’re not very competitive.</p>
<p>Florida!</p>
<p>U. Florida- The premier public school in Florida. Large, beautiful campus with great sports and academics. Gainesville is just average however.</p>
<p>FSU- usually the 2nd choice for those rejected by UF. It is large and has major partying. It is right near FAMU as well.</p>
<p>UCF- stands for “U Can’t Fail” It is very easy and is loaded with hot girls.</p>
<p>USF- the area surrounding USF has gone downhill, but it is similar to UCF.</p>
<p>FAU- located right by the fancy Boca Mall-has a lot “ditzy” girls</p>
<p>FIU- very Latino, located in Miami</p>
<p>New College of Florida- very good liberal arts school… and its very liberal, lol.</p>
<p>Florida Gulf Coast- newest state college… it is located right on the beach in Ft Myers! Very nice! However, the academics are nonexistant.</p>
<p>Here’s some Oregon schools</p>
<p>Oregon State: don’t know a ton about it, mascot is a beaver. decent sports teams, i think it has a good engineering program.
U of O: Ducks, great sports teams. excellent journalism program, beautiful campus, reasonably priced
U of Portland: private, small catholic (i think?) university, really good women’s soccer team
Reed College: excellent liberal arts school, very academic, hard-ish to get into
OHSU: Great medical school
Portland State U: in the heart of downtown portland, pretty good buy for your money
Southern Oregon: hippie school with a crazy party scene
Western Oregon: uuh…in the middle of no where monmouth, oregon and a 2.75 gpa is automatic admission, at least for oregon residents.</p>
<p>Haven’t seen too many Washington school posts so I’ll do one.</p>
<p>UW-Where most of top students who want to stay in-state will go. Located in Seattle so plenty to do, large student population, very diverse. Great medical program, good law and engineering departments as well. Athletics slipping a bit lately though.</p>
<p>WSU-2nd best state school, where middle-tier and eastern WA students go. In the middle of nowhere, pretty good academics, a solid education. I live in the UW area so not a big fan of WSU though.</p>
<p>Western Wash U-Good academic reputation, better for liberal arts than sciences. Medium sized student body. Not much to do in Bellingham, but an hour or so from Vancouver BC. Popular alternative to those who don’t get into UW but don’t want to go to WSU.</p>
<p>Central-Can’t say much here. Decent academics, but nothing top tier. Not really in a big city, not too hard to get in.</p>
<p>Eastern-Same as Central pretty much, decent education, small town. A little smaller and less selective though.</p>
<p>Evergreen State-Hippie school. Doesn’t have grades, instead students get a written summary and evaluation of their work. Design your own major program as well. The Berkeley of Washington in terms of student body.</p>
<p>Don’t know too much about any of the private schools quite frankly. Here’s what I do know:</p>
<p>Gonzaga: Small Catholic school, good basketball team, Spokane is a decently sized city.</p>
<p>Seattle U: In downtown so lots to do, private and Catholic, strong academics.</p>
<p>Whitman: Great Liberal Arts college, in Walla Walla, small city in the southeast.</p>
<p>Iowa</p>
<p>Iowa State- the best university in the state. very underrated, beautiful campus</p>
<p>Iowa- slightly overrated around here, only good for business and med</p>
<p>UNI- where the B - A- students go, mostly for teaching and business.</p>
<p>Mass.</p>
<p>Depends on where you live on how you consider Umass Boston. I am very close to it, so it’s a popular choice at my school. Last year over 25% of '07 went to UMass schools.
Amherst is the biggest, and known for parties (but UNH is actually a bigger party school).
Dartmouth & Lowell are not emphasized as much here. </p>
<p>And as far as the MCAS scholarship goes: You must place at least advanced in once section & proficient in the other to be considered, plus top 25% of your district. The scholarship waives tuition at MA state schools.
Here’s the breakdown (from the official letter for Fall 08) </p>
<p>UMass avg. $1,618
State Colleges avg. $957
Comm. College avg. $734</p>
<p>Massasoit is the joke Comm.College where I live. Lovingly called “Massa-toilet”. There’s a million CC in MA though Mass Bay, Quincy, Bunker Hill, CCCC, Bristol, Fisher, Dean, Roxbury, Northshore, Laboure.</p>
<p>And other private schools not mentioned:</p>
<p>Colleges of the Fenway (Simmons, Emmanuel, MCPHS, Wheelock, MassArt)- best perk is you can take courses at any colleges of the fenway. </p>
<p>Curry College - Excellent nursing program. Located in somewhat rich town (Milton MA). Other programs not so hard to get into, most kids seem to look down on this school. </p>
<p>Others:
Berklee (Music), Holy Cross, Bridgewater, Mass Maritime, Smith, Clark, Stonehill, Suffolk, Worcester Polytech, Wentworth, Wheaton, Assumption, Babson, Bentley, Endicott</p>
<p>FSU- Everyone’s first choice…if they have the grades. Their admissions are weird though, almost like the Ivies. There are people with 1400 SAT scores, great ECs, and grades that don’t get in, and at the same time people with 900 scores and average ECs and A’s B’s and the occasional C also get in. It is almost random!</p>
<p>UMiami (private) - If people have the cash or scholarships, this is where they go if they can’t get into FSU. Great environment and resources.</p>
<p>UF- I don’t like it. People just seem to go there because they want to be at a party school.</p>
<p>FAMU- Florida’s public historically black university. Great school spirit and student unity. Academics are improving. After FSU and UF, Florida’s oldest university. Has a law school in Orlando.</p>
<p>UCF- What I call the “college of FSU rejects.” People who can’t quite afford to go to UMiami and get rejected from FSU go here. Still something of a commuter school, but trying to change that image.</p>
<p>USF- Ditto what was said about UCF. It is also one of the directional schools some FSU rejects choose to go to.</p>
<p>New College- This is on the Colleges that Change Lives list. However, it is very different from the others on it because it is actually very selective. It is ridiculously small, with a grand total of only a little more than 800 undergrads. It used to be a private school until they got in debt. Then it got absorbed into USF. In 2001 or so it became an independent public school.</p>
<p>FGCU- This is the newest school in Florida. (Excluding New College, if you don’t count it becoming independent from USF in 2001) It isn’t very selective at all. (Just look at their mid-range SAT scores.) However, they reject a lot of applicants. Only a little more than 50% actually get in despite their other low statistics. Their dorms are among the best in the nation, but basically the same as any new dorms at all Florida universities. They feature full kitchens (stove, oven and full size refrigerator) and are right outside the beach. The buildings literally are on the beach, and students can rent kayaks and other small boats to go out on.</p>
<p>FAU- Smaller, striving 4-year college in Boca Raton.</p>
<p>UNF- Smaller, striving university in Jacksonville. Great scholarships.</p>
<p>UWF- Ditto UNF, except in Pensacola.</p>
<p>(time for a little fun with opinion)</p>
<p>How is FSU better than UF academic wise?</p>
<p>NC and SC!!</p>
<p>UNC Chapel Hill: Excellent school with excellent in-state tuition. I go to a private school and many students each year go here over other out of state schools (even ivies) because of the quality of education and price. Beautiful campus, great college town. Too big for me, though. </p>
<p>UNC Greensboro/ Wilmington: Both pretty decent schools, really just depends on location I think, although I didn’t really look into these. </p>
<p>UNC Charlotte: I live in Charlotte, haven’t actually ever been here but I don’t think there’s much of a campus. Honestly I don’t hear too much about it. I would imagine social life revolves around the bars uptown and Panthers/Bobcats games. </p>
<p>Wake: Beautiful campus, excellent school. Personally, I didn’t like it but just because it didn’t “feel” right to me. But its pretty and they have a lot of school spirit. </p>
<p>Salem College: All women’s college in Winston-Salem. VERY gorgeous , but small, campus. I visited and everyone seemed sort of apathetic about being there. </p>
<p>Wofford: A lot of people from my school are starting to go here, I think its starting to get a better academic reputation. It’s a small school, pretty campus. Not much around, though. </p>
<p>Elon: Nice campus, nice but small town. Pretty brick buildings and I remember them having a really awesome Communications department. </p>
<p>Furman: Gorgeous campus. A bit similar to Elon but bigger. Greenville is an amazing town with lots of little restaurants and shops and such. The mountains are like 30 minutes away, and Charlotte is about an hour. </p>
<p>Clemson: Big school but it feels smaller than it actually is. LOTS of school spirit and a nice strip of college-type restaurants and shops. Football is big. </p>
<p>NC State: Big engineering/math /science school… a lot of people I know go here looking to become vets. </p>
<p>Meredith College: Small women’s college near Raleigh. Have a friend who goes here and is very happy.</p>
<p>lol, biased towards FSU much?</p>
<p>I mostly agree with Ohioguy’s list. I get the impression though that Dayton and Xavier have better reputations than OU and UC. I thought it was interesting that he said Northwestern has such a big reputation here. I have noticed that also.</p>
<p>yea i’m sure if you have 1400 SATs you have no chance at FSU…jeez</p>
<p>Yeah, when your screen name is “parent2noles” people know the type of opinion you’re going to give! LOL</p>
<p>Also, FAU is in no way a party school. Hell, Boca Raton is the town of the ELDERLY!!! Their honors college is nice, but it is on a satalite campus, so those students are surrounded by commuters on a very boring campus you can walk across in 3 minutes.</p>
<p>I have a different view of FSU. It’s based mostly on partying, and if you want a more academically focused school if your rejected from UF, you’d want to go to UCF. (Or UMiami if you have the cash.) If you can get into UCF’s honors college, that is also a plus. It is kinda in the middle of nowhere though. They have been expanding like bacteria growing exponentially. UCF=Under Construction Forever!</p>
<p>FIU is where all the Miami-Dade students who couldn’t pass the FCAT (which is way to easy to begin with) until their 4th try go. Still, I think it had a much better rep in the past; my mom got her grad degree there. (Nova didn’t have their good graduate school rep yet.)</p>
<p>Northern Arizona State- has anyone ever heard of this university? Well, you don’t want to…
Arizona State- Blah. It’s a party school, and we all know it. Luckily, it’s half-way decent when you compare it to most other universities…
University of Arizona- Better than ASU, but not that great compared to a ton of California schools. It has some pretty good programs (particularly its Aerospace program), but it kind of fails in others. Barbara Kingsolver went there though (have you heard of The Bean Trees?) </p>
<p>A ton of people don’t like to stay in Arizona, so we go out of state.</p>
<p>Maryland (and DC)</p>
<p>University of Maryland-College Park- basically a prolonging of the high school experience, with all the kids you went to high school with… used to be a safety about here for top kids but not as much anymore. great engineering and business and an amazing honors program, but not in the best area</p>
<p>University of Maryland-Baltimore County- not though of too too highly. mostly kids who didn’t get into UMDCP and don’t want to go to community college. high transfer rate. most kids who go there don’t like it that much but they do party hard!</p>
<p>Salisbury- well-respected in my area considering its not a very good school. by the beach and known for partying. they recruit many athletes from the howard/montgomery county area so you always hear of kids going there to play sports (even if they’re not that great)</p>
<p>Frostburg- generally accepted as the slacker school. common knowledge that howard community has a higher SAT score range than frostburg (don’t know the validity of this) and that you would probably get a better education from hcc.</p>
<p>Towson- more popular up in the baltimore area, but thought of similarly as Salisbury for the most part in terms of reputation</p>
<p>St. Mary’s College of MD- small college with a beautiful campus by the chesapeake. better for students who are trying not to go to college with their entire high school class as you might find at umdcp, umbc, frostburg, towson, and salisbury. very good school but extremely cheap. known for having a bit of a stoner/hippie atmosphere, but more well-respected than towson and salisbury</p>
<p>US Naval Academy- most people forget its even in MD, but hands-down the most respected school in MD. not many kids go there in state as compared to the other schools, but all the high schools will send a couple kids there every few years. known for having the cutest guys who take over annapolis every saturday night so many girls go up and visit/meet them</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins- maybe its just me, but I feel like not many kids from my area apply here. very well-respected but often overlooked in the college search. a couple kids recruited every year for the lax dynasty. high schoolers go up there to watch the big lax games every year.</p>
<p>Hood College- nobody around here talks about it much, but those who do LOVE it…not sure why but used to be allgirls and now that its coed it tries incredibly desperately to attract potential students. I have always been embarassed for them at the high school fairs and when they call me every night for a week (!) trying to get students to go.</p>
<p>Loyola College in MD- very expensive, lots of rich private school guys seem to go there.</p>
<p>Mount St. Mary’s University- in the middle of nowhere. very fun school with really chill people. everyone i’ve met from there has been the nicest people ever and that seems to be the rep they all have. academics are decent, sports are terrible, but the grads typically seem to get pretty good jobs.</p>
<p>Villa Julie College- thought of as kind of a joke college. really high ratio of girls to guys so all the guys who go there are thought of as ridiculously lucky and are generally pretty cute. “secretary school”.</p>
<p>American University- mostly a safety school for the top MD students and more of a destination for out of state kids.</p>
<p>Catholic University- very very well regarded school for some reason. people seem to be impressed by kids who go there, I don’t know why…</p>
<p>Gallaudet- school for the deaf. people make lots of jokes about the school, but nearly all the deaf kids in the area go there…</p>
<p>George Washington University- ridiculously expensive. thought of as a wannabe Georgetown. full of rich kids from the north. most kids from around here end up transferring out to either Georgetown or UMDCP.</p>
<p>Georgetown- the way people talk about this school, you would think it was Harvard. almost every top student applies here and many end up going. everyone is either obsessed with it or have decided that for whatever reason it is overrated but for the most part people love georgetown.</p>
<p>ILLINOIS(excuse my typo tendencies; its late and im tired!!)</p>
<p>UIUC(urbana-Champaign)-the overrated flagship state school that is the goal for most above-average students in illinois; not many OOS’ers go here and it tends to specialize in more random majors(aka agriculture & aviation)not as great as some prairie-staters make it out to be.</p>
<p>UIC (Chicago)=downtown campus, very hip and fun. definitely for the city-lover, campus is actually Quite nice and they specialize in medicine!! very good programs for pre-med; attracts an artsy-crowd.</p>
<p>Illinois State- not a bad school not a good. mostly leftovers who got rejected from U of I. good for education and physical therapy! second most popular school to apply to besides UIUC.</p>
<p>Eastern Illinois-JOKE! for those who were rejeted EVERYWHERE, including your ocal comm. college. haha im joking, sort of. very easy to get into, reputation for a big partying school and not much going on on campus besides drining and cowtippin’.</p>
<p>Western Illinois-Nobody goes here; its so random and unknown. goodbye WIU.</p>
<p>SOuthern Ill.- fEW from chicagoland area end up going here; very hillbillyish and has a reputation for being a fun school with lots of partying but academics are not respected very much at all.</p>
<p>Northern Ill.-Good state school; good for business, economics. not as much partying but academics are solid in comparison to other state schools.</p>
<p>Loyola-DOwntown chicago campus,. little partying, not much personality as a school in general. id avoid it.</p>
<p>DePaul-Totally rad downtown chicago campus, some party scene but not crazy. great location and academics are SOLid for private U. Very ex*****ve though!!</p>
<p>Northwestern-Most highly regarded school in Illinois by far. surpasses UCHicago in almost all aspects. awesome for pre-med, pre-law, and obviously journalism.(medill is no.1 school for journalism in nation!!) great suburban chciago location i nheart of evanston, beuatiful “old money” neighborhood literally right on lake michigan. best school in illinois academically and in my opinion overall.</p>
<p>UChicago;“where fun comes to die.” Yuck! hate this school, it has absolutely no personality and the students here are all seemingly miserable. party scene is basically nonexistant and the location leaves much to be desired. def. not the school many make it out to be, although architecture is wonderful and is harry-potteresque everywhere.</p>
<p>HOPE THIS HELPS!!! ANY ?'S? PM ME!!!</p>
<p>Ole Miss - 80% of my grade will go here.
Millsaps - 15% of my grade will go here.</p>
<p>The last 5% I have the most respect for.</p>
<p>ARIZONA</p>
<p>Northern Arizona State - An alright school. Most people in Arizona likes the school because it is located in Flagstaff where it snows in the winter (yes, snow in Arizona). Besides that, no one talks much about NAU.</p>
<p>Arizona State - One of the most widely recognize party school in the nation. The Barrett Honors program is widely recognize though and pretty difficult to get into. A high percentage of honors students gets into good graduate schools and doctoral programs from prestige schools (HYP, etc.)</p>
<p>University of Arizona - Slightly better ranked than ASU in terms of overall student body but their honors program does not even compare to that of ASU. Has an alright med school and a pretty good pharmacy program. It is located in Tucson though, which is good if you enjoy the desert setting and art museums.</p>