<p>Any UC that’s not UCLA or Berkeley is, for the most part, underrated and overshadowed. Same goes for most (if not all) of the CSUs.</p>
<p>Any school in the following states is underrated:</p>
<p>Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Oregon, or Washington.</p>
<p>^ Mmm , but are there even any superb Arizona schools? They seem to deserve their “rates” so to speak.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is easily the most academically underrated school in the entire top 30 list from USNWR.
Hopkins has some of the most stellar facilities, faculty, and students in the country in departments that are all AMAZING from writing, to classics, to german, to international relations, to engineering, to history, to, of course, the hard-core sciences.</p>
<p>And yet, the only thing that people seem able to associate with Hopkins is Pre-Med and Cutthroat.</p>
<p>Hopkins is, handsdown and undoubtedly, the most often underrated and misrepresented college among the elite and prestigious institutions in this nation/world. And because of its true well-rounded excellence, I wouldn’t hesitate to put it in the same ranks as HYPS, Oxford, Camridge, Columbia, Cornell and Maybe Chicago (if it had an engineering school too).</p>
<p>UC berkeley is underrated because it is a public school</p>
<p>Notre Dame is underrated (at least on CC) because it doesn’t have particularly outstanding graduate programs (and is instead focused on undergraduate education) and because i’ts Catholic, and many people seem to believe that Catholic schools are inferior.</p>
<p>Cornell U. is underrated because it constantly has to be compared to the 7 other Ivy League school which is elite company and because it’s acceptance rate is the highest (albeit a measly 19%), nevertheless top to bottom, program to program, it is one of the finest instituitions in the world</p>
<p>University of Washington-Seattle because of it’s higher acceptance rate.</p>
<p>@bjomountsi09: I heard that Cornell is the easiest Ivy to get into and the hardest one to graduate from :)</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think any of the Ivies are underrated… I think they all receive more hype than necessary. People forget that the Ivy League is merely a sports conference. Nevertheless, most people can’t name all the schools that belong to the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I think all the schools in the top 20 or so are “underrated” in a sense because they always have the label of “ivy league” dwarfing their actual prestige. Of course, they aren’t completely underrated but it will never truly be fair until people learn that the name “ivy league” is just a name.</p>
<p>Stanford U is underrated (by East Coasters) because its in the West</p>
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<p>It’s only in the world of CC that people get all worked up over the Ivy League name. In the real world, most people don’t GAS in the first place, and those who do fully understand that all the top schools are, well, excellent educations. This world of people who are “impressed by HYP and not impressed by anything else” is populated by overanxious high school seniors on cc and Asian immigrant parents.</p>
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<p>No, they’re just irrelevant outside of California. Typical California arrogance – “everyone all over the country should be familiar with and care about all of our state schools.”</p>
<p>UCLA/Berkeley, USC, and Stanford are all underrated because no one on the East Coast knows or cares about them.</p>
<p>*Personally, I knew and admired Berkeley. I knew UCLA was good at basketball and thought USC was the University of South Carolina. All I knew of Stanford was that Lisa Simpson did not want to go there because it wasn’t an Ivy. And I thought I wasn’t an ignorant person lol.</p>
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I think its location has something to do with it as well. Many people seem to not like peace and tranquility and Cayuga’s waters.</p>
<p>And as for Cal and Stanford on the east coast: I think many easterners see it with a wave of mystery in a way that, if anything, adds to its prestige (though maybe not the likelihood of an application).</p>
<p>Stanford is underrated because almost every single department that Stanford has is ranked top 5 and the weather is so conducive to learning.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is underrated because most people don’t know where it is, not to mention most people don’t know what it is.</p>
<p>I definitely agree about Dartmouth. Nice bump here.</p>
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<p>Typical Pizzagirl arrogance – “I don’t give a **** so you’re wrong. And since I’m so lacking in knowledge due to their irrelevance I clearly know more about the situation than you.”</p>
<p>^^Why its the Mouth of a Dart. Yes? I guess some people dont understand compound words.</p>
<p>Whitman is underrated because, well, it’s in Walla Walla. And because of the high-ish acceptance rate</p>