<p>Overrated: Belmont – everyone is capable of “being musical” but the enlarged egos of the student population (and their demos/bands) leaves much to be said for the music programs and theater programs. The faculty is too far in the clouds to be accesible. It’s one giant diva playground.</p>
<p>Underrated: Lipscomb University – the campus is beautiful and pristine at all times of the day and year, professors are accesible and there are so many hidden gems in the faculty! The foremost scholars in various fields (from physics to history) work at Lipscomb. It is not a “religious” school, though it has a foundation on faith (sort of like Notredame). Some of their strongest departments are the Political Science, History, & Philosophy Department, the Pharmacy program, and their Lipscomb/Vanderbilt nursing partnership (two-years at LU, two-years at Vandy).</p>
<p>MomLive, I think as for Clemson vs. South Carolina, they are two entirely different schools and the one you should go to depends on what you want to study.</p>
<p>You should go to the University of South Carolina if you want to study business, mathematics, nursing, education, technology, library service, journalism, psychology, hotel/restaurant and tourism management.
You should go to Clemson if you want to study sciences or engineering or agriculture</p>
<p>Florida-- I consider UF to be overrated. As a transplant to florida with a senior, we took on the task of researching florida schools from an unbiased view with concentrations on curriculum, campus life, housing, etc. We tossed UF after hearing horror stories of classes of 500 and getting the housing boot after freshman year. The only place where UF may carry weight is Florida.</p>
<p>I am going to counter the negatives in the above posts about U Florida. Personally I think UF is slightly underrated. Before I am attacked by the anti-gator mob, I will say I also think FSU is underrated. I say UF is underrated because of it’s huge breath of programs…almost any one you care to pick is a top-50 program, AAU membership, patent scorecard, research rankings, student quality, job and grad school placement, recruiter scorecard, peer assessment, and undergrad and grad research opportunities…all of which are consistent with higher ranked programs. Not to mention the extremely low tuition for all this. The negative of UF, and this is true of all Florida state universities, is student-teacher ratio…but Machen is working that as aggressively as he can, and it will ultimately improve and get UF into the top-10 of public universities in the future.</p>
<p>I think all of the florida schools would be better off if they could reduce their enrollment, 40,000+ students is tough to handle especially with the budget crisis.</p>
<p>I agree with you. Unfortunately, in the state, many kids choose between the two universities based upon whether they were brought up to pull for the Tigers or the Gamecocks. At least that had been my observation and I include my son in that statement.</p>
<p>Uh, no mob here, just callin it as I see it. Besides, nobody said UF was not a good school, just that its supporters have an over inflated perspective of it relative to the universe of higher ed. Thus, overrated. Nothing to be done about that really- it is what it is.</p>
<p>yeah that’s pretty unfortunate, instead of going to the school you were grown up cheering for, you should go to the school that is the best fit for you</p>
<p>but I guess that’s the problem with not having one flagship university which is strong in nearly every field.</p>
<p>“So far everyone from the state of Florida has said the University of Florida is overrated.”</p>
<p>Could that be because with a ~1300 average SAT score, 4.0+ GPA and thirty-something percent acceptance rate, most everyone from Florida that applies to UF gets rejected and has an axe to grind.</p>
<p>Fact is that by MOST OBJECTIVE measures, such as research expenditures, student body quality, graduation rate, etc. that UF is well UNDERRATED.</p>
<p>Note, my underrating claim is based on data, not sheer un substantiated opinion.</p>