<p>Then, my apologies for the mistake on your user id. I jumped to conclusions. That being said, the link to the mental health article had zero to do with this debate and everything to do with taking a cheap shot at Ohio State.</p>
<p>As for your two orignal questions, I didn’t answer them because other people already did for me before I logged back in. I do go to Ohio State, and my numbers on the socioeconomic background of Miami students are valid and come from a Miami presentation available on the web and used to sell the tuition scheme.</p>
<p>As for binx’s assertion that I’m bitter about money because I’m majoring in social work, there’s also an assumption way off the mark. I’m majoring in history and Chinese and looking at joint International Studies-Law programs for graduate school; although I do have a great deal of respect for someone who might actually view a college education as a means to bettering society more than simply their bank account. </p>
<p>I don’t have a problem with money. I grew up comfortably and hold no grudge against others with a similar background. I just didn’t want to go to a school where one socioeconomic, racial and political viewpoint dominates the entire student body, and it does dominate the student body at Miami.</p>
<p>Actually read that link that I posted to the Miami survey. Miami’s own professors describe it as a place where “suburban, preppy repbulicans end up.” The surveyors go into detail of the indifference, if not outright hostility, on the part of Miami’s students towards the school’s worthy diversity initiatives. If that appeals to someone, then Miami is probably a good fit, but don’t try and persuade students to apply to Miami by saying that the general perception among Ohioans, all of the guides and even the opinions of Miami’s own faculty are all mistaken.</p>
<p>As for admissions standards, the proof is in the numbers. While in the 60s and 70s, Ohio State suffered through a twenty year period with a governor and a former Miami president as Board of Regents Chancellor forcibly holding it back at the undergraduate level. Those policies are long gone, and the historical hierarchy in Ohio’s public system of higher education has firmly been reasserted. A rough glance at the 2007 freshman classes tells me that about 20% of Miami’s class would not have been accepted to Ohio State, which makes that video all the more ridiculous to the point of self-parody.</p>