<p>A good number of sh60614’s posts bash Miami. S/he (not sure which) goes to OSU. The 55%, like corbis said, is accurate or at least very close. On the other hand, Miami has really outstanding need-based financial aid for a public university. Miami as a whole does not have thousands of students who were applying to HYP, but certainly many Honors students have profiles similar to those accepted at Ivies and other top schools. And the same could be said at OSU-- you can’t tell me that the entire freshmen class could have been accepted at top tier schools. However, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, and Pomona immediately come to mind as schools at which some of my friends were accepted…</p>