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dvm258
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:13 +0000

Oh please. Lets not start another university war. LOL.

Getting into UM is just about as difficult as getting into UF. Just look at the college board statistics:

[College Search - University of Miami - UM - At a Glance](College Search - BigFuture | College Board)

[College Search - University of Florida - UF - At a Glance](College Search - BigFuture | College Board)

According to these, UM has both a lower acceptance rate and higher SAT/ACT averages than UF. In fact, it’s 38% acceptance rate is close to that of UF’s this year.

Also, because UM is a private school, they tend to weigh non-academic factors of applications more heavily than public schools. What would you call “significant impact?” An officership? Class president? From my experience, there are always things that I don’t know about my own classmates that are amazing and perhaps get them into the colleges of their choice.

Also, I have UM’s acceptance letter in front of me. It says they went through 20,000 applications for 2,000 spots in the freshman class. They accepted more than 2,000, because not everyone accepted actually matriculates.