<p>What are the most underrated schools in your opinion?</p>
<p>UDub, and all the little whiners around here how care so much about "research" (hey, remember that study from Michigan that said that women do more housework when they get married? can you believe they spent money to come up with that conclusion?) will agree with me.</p>
<p>I remember a thread like this..... lol</p>
<p>IMO most underrated</p>
<p>Rice
Wake Forest
Tufts
William & Mary
Georgetown
Colgate
Brown</p>
<p>Basically a medium size school whose primary focus is on teaching undergrads with limited research/grad programs. They get way less respect in CC land than the real world.</p>
<p>I believe both my universities are far underrated: Florida Institute of Technology and University of Alabama in Huntsville. For sciences and engineering, at least.</p>
<p>Swish: I think all those schools you listed as well respected and ranked nicely. Whether they deserve even more attention, I can't say. They're certainly not ignored.</p>
<p>I agree Swich that it's those that focus on the undergrads that are underrated. Amherst and Swat are better undergrad schools to me than Harvard and Yale. To me Princeton is clearly the best undergrad school among HYP, yet it's the least popular! </p>
<p>Dartmouth should she the top rated undergrad ivy for it's complete focus on undergrads, small classes and amazing study abroad and internship programs. Barnard should be ranked much higher if just for it's access to Columbia classes combined with an LAC bent.</p>
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<p>Come on guys. "I believe big name, well-respected school is better than other big name, well-respected school."</p>
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Amherst and Swat are better undergrad schools to me than Harvard and Yale.
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<p>Depends on what you want. Liberal arts colleges versus universities are a matter of fit, not educational quality.</p>
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To me Princeton is clearly the best undergrad school among HYP, yet it's the least popular! Dartmouth should she the top rated undergrad ivy for it's complete focus on undergrads, small classes and amazing study abroad and internship programs.
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<p>Based on student experiences, Yale fewer big lectures and more small seminars than Princeton. But I'll agree with you about Dartmouth. It's the best undergrad Ivy, though not clear winner it's often made out to be.</p>
<p>Classes sizes: >50, <20, average class size</p>
<p>Yale: 40%, 38%, 74
Princeton: 47%, 33%, 85
Harvard: 55%, 26%, 120
Dartmouth: 34%, 36%, n/a</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Brown.</p>
<p>In my opinion, all are excellent great universities with exemplary faculty resources and power on par with most of the top ten schools minus the great breath and depth of talk and media attention on this board and by average joe general public.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin, great research powerhouse. Spend the second most in the nation annual on research and development after JHU for nearly 28 years in a row. You'd be hard pressed to find any postdoc or PI in any major research lab (including mine at Harvard) that has not heard of the research prowness of UWisconsin. I'm actually quited surprised at how underrated it is by many people on this board.</p>
<p>Wisconsin is an awesome school.</p>
<p>On the other side of the spectrum, don't overlook University of Rochester.</p>
<p>I don't see how Brown can be underrated when it is routinely in the top 5-7 in terms of selectivity.</p>
<p>Ohio State. good business and engineering programs.
Purdue. because it is easy to get into, people don't tend to recognize how amazing its engineering program is.</p>
<p>LACs in general. Not by rank or anything, but by the public's opinion- I've heard people say that Cornell is a "reach" for someone but somehow Swarthmore is a "match." Craaaaazy.</p>
<p>uchicago, although its popularity is growing. ok, maybe it is not underrated by academics, business people and other colleges, but just not as common of a name.</p>
<p>WPI because it gives a lot of attention to gets undergraduate students (at least for engineering) unlike schools like MIT and caltech which seem to only care about graduate students. WPI undergrads can play with then high tech stuff their freshman year. MIT students have to wait until their JR year.</p>