<p>NY (For undergrad)
Overrated: NYU
Underrated: SUNY Geneseo</p>
<p>Overrated: NYU
Underrated: Fordham and Union</p>
<p>I like this thread. I’ve lived in a bunch of states, so here goes (of course, this is for undergrad):</p>
<p>NY:<br>
overrated: NYU
Underrated: Fordham and Union</p>
<p>NJ:
overrated: Rutgers (people think it’s Hahvard)
underrated: Drew</p>
<p>Florida:
overrated: U of Miami
underrated: Rollins</p>
<p>DC:
overrated: G-town
underrated: Howard</p>
<p>Massachusetts
overrated: Hahvard and BU. Come on BU is a party school!
underrated: Babson</p>
<p>Overrated: Tufts, Holy Cross, Boston Univ.
Underrated: Boston College, Northeastern Univ.</p>
<p>Overrated: Hope, Albion
Underrated: Kalamazoo, Michigan Tech</p>
<p>MA (For undergrad)</p>
<p>Overrated: Boston College, Northeastern Univ.
Underrated: Tufts, Holy Cross, Boston Univ.</p>
<p>(This is just my school and does not reflect the opinions of the world)
Overrated: Illinois State University (EVERY college shirt you will in the halls are either USC and ISU. And we don’t even live by it!)
Underrated: (IN MY SCHOOL) UIUC. Seriously, no one cares about it at all.</p>
<p>South Carolina:</p>
<p>Overrated: University Of South Carolina - Columbia
Underrated: Wofford, Furman</p>
<p>Virginia</p>
<p>Overrated: William and Mary, George Mason
Underrated: Washington and Lee, James Madison, VCU
Just rated: UVa, Virginia Tech, Richmond</p>
<p>North Carolina (Second home)</p>
<p>Overrated: None that I can really think of, actually, although this is all very subjective of course.
Underrated: Davidson, NC State, Wake Forest
Just rated: Duke, Carolina</p>
<p>Massachusetts:</p>
<p>Overrated: Bentley, Emerson, UMass-Amherst, Northeastern
Underrated: Bard College At Simon’s Rock, Mount Holyoke</p>
<p>Overrated: UCB</p>
<p>Underrated: Claremont. No one talks about it here in NorCal.</p>
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<p>Florida</p>
<p>Overrated: University of Florida. No matter how many times it is said, UF is not a “public ivy.”</p>
<p>Underrated: New College of Florida. Small classes, great professors, open-ended curriculum, great PhD turnout. The other underrated Florida college is Rollins.</p>
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<p>Missouri</p>
<p>Overrated - University of Missouri
Underrated - Truman State University</p>
<p>Overrated: NYU
Underrated: Cornell</p>
<p>California</p>
<p>Overrated: UCLA
Underrated: Claremont Colleges</p>
<p>Illinois
Overrated:
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
-Kids at my school think U of I as the second coming. It’s only good for engineering and you just party in cornfields. Way overrated.
Northwestern (At times)
-From my perspective, kids in Illinois think NW is their Harvard. Yes, it is a pretty good school, but only for journalism and business.
Underrated
U of Chicago
-People think of it as some anti-social, acne-ridden, nightmare(Which it sometimes is). However, the academics are stellar and destroy NW.</p>
<p>Overrated: Berkeley, UCLA, Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>Underrated: Davis, UCSB, Pomona</p>
<p>VA
Over: James Madison , VA Tech , Richmond.
Under:George Mason , William and Mary.</p>
<p>I feel like UVa deserves most of the credit it gets, But WM is the veryveryvery close second.</p>
<p>Washington:
Over: U of Washington
Under: Whitman </p>
<p>Well now, that was easy, wasn’t it? University of Puget Sound probably deserves a mention because that place is intensely underrated, too. Whitman takes the cake, though.</p>
<p>Massachusetts:</p>
<p>Over: Holy Cross
Underrated: Amherst College</p>