My personal experience with the admissions process at the University of Miami has been a very positive one.

The staff is astute, professional and has great follow through.

Teachers, doctors, lawyers and all professionals should attend this wonderful school.

It is truly unbiased and kindly to the community it serves. Though the University is private, one could not tell this from the attitudes of the professors and staff.

They seem so intent and determined to help students get through the piles of paperwork required.

U Of M has done something many schools have not been able to do well enough. They have neutralized ethnic bias to a very high degree in the admissions process.

Compared to Florida International University the University of Miami's admission procedure is three or four times more strenuous.

But at every turn you have someone there to help you run through the rat maze. One gets the feeling that people really care about your success, strive to keep you motivated.

Not so at FIU. I always have the feeling that someone wants my money much more than they want me.

Could not get an advisor. They always said they were too busy. One, senile professor in the school verbally abused me; Hung monkeys in his office and introduced every black student who came into his office for advisement to the monkey pictures hanging on his office wall.

I think the coward was trying to insult the students. He succeeded with me.

I, was deeply offended, but nothing was ever done to this guy. He epitomizes the profile of FIU to me. A place more like purgatory than an institution of higher learning.

Ethnic bias is prolific there as well. One would think that FIU was a school only for a certain clientele instead of a state University allowed to exist through public revenues.

The elements that influenced me in admissions at the University of Miami were three in tone and form:

1. The staff was highly professional

2. Paperwork, though prolific can be explained to you by the people wh to handle it.

3. Professors are willing to work closely with the students.

I am going back to U of M for the Liberal Arts Program.
I know that my experience will be a profitable one for me.

My relationship with this wonderful, wonderful, school has always been a magical one.

I recommend the U of M for serious students, returning students like myself, and people who just love to be taught new and interesting things.











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