<p>I went to the Singer Stamps weekend with my son and was VERY impressed with the quality of student present.The University is doing a great job of throwing merit money at it’s top applicants, and this is going to be very important in raising the level of the academics.My son had several friends who were highly qualified who would have considered Miami if they had known how much merit money they would have gotten. Instead ,
they went to places like BC, Rochester, BU etc and got nothing. Unfortunately, Miami still has not completely overcome the party school image. I frequently hear “Oh Miami, that’s such a big party school”. Old reputations die hard.
I don’t know why U.S. News dropped Miami this past year. I also don’t understand why their rankings have become the gold standard. Miami is certainly headed in the right direction, and I expect them to crack the Top 40 soon.</p>