<p>New Jersey</p>
<p>Overrated: TCNJ, Rutgers, Montclair State </p>
<p>Underrated: None</p>
<p>Princeton is the only school in New Jersey worth going to.</p>
<p>Overrated- anything in WV really, especially the big ones everyone knows- WVU and Marshall
Underrated- not much to underrate haha- Wesleyan and Shepherd are good though</p>
<p>There arenāt any even āmid-tierā schools in the state</p>
<p>New York State</p>
<p>Overrated: suny bing and geneseo, both are honestly terrible schools. Kids think that they are good schools and they are goodā if you donāt want a job out of college. Lul. All sunys suck. I heard one person say geneseo was the Harvard of new York state. ( okkkkkkkkkayyyy lady)</p>
<p>Underrated : Lehigh
Overrated : SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Geneseo</p>
<p>Michigan</p>
<p>Overrated: Michigan State</p>
<p>Underrated: Kalamazoo College</p>
<p>^Lehigh is not in New York^</p>
<p>Overrated: University of Miami, FSU
Underrated: UF, FIU</p>
<p>Overrated: Stanford by far
Underrated: UCSB</p>
<p>So this is probably not a smart question but I want to start my own topic and I canāt figure out how to. Iām new to this site!</p>
<p>Florida:</p>
<p>Overrated: UF. Not a public ivy. Suffers from superiority complex.</p>
<p>Underrated: New Collegeāquirky but a hidden jewel, Rollinsāconsidered a highly ranked regional LAC but canāt get out from under that regional label</p>
<p>Underappreciated: FSU</p>
<p>Up and coming secret: FAU</p>
<p>Rachel, use this link:</p>
<p><a href=āhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2[/url]ā>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2</a></p>
<p>For California:</p>
<p>Over-rated: Stanford and USC
Under-rated: UCSB (although its Materials Engineering, Bioengineering, psych, soc are highly-ranked, but the insistence on its being a party school and nothing more is erroneous) and
Mills collegeāa fine womenās college on par with Wellesley and Smith with esp. strong humanities and sciences.
Pomonaāexcellent school that can never quite shake off its icky location</p>
<p>For Maryland:</p>
<p>Over-rated: Hopkins (esp. if you take into account its problematic social culture)
Under-rated: St. Mary College, St. Johnās college, and Univ of Maryland @ College Park</p>
<p>California</p>
<p>Overrated: UCLA (Most applied to school in the world, 81,235)
Underrated: Pomona (On par with Stanford, Harvard, etc.)</p>
<p>Alabama:</p>
<p>Over-rated: University of Alabama
Under-rated: Samford University</p>
<p>Colorado</p>
<p>Over-rated: CU boulder
Under-rated: CSU fort colins</p>
<p>Iām from California, but I went to high school in Florida so I know more about the schools thereā¦ What I have to say about California is pretty much the same as everyone else, that the Claremont colleges are excellent and underrated. Many of my friends in California had not even heard of them. But California in general has excellent schools, there are more truly great schools than overrated schools there, I think.</p>
<p>For Florida:
Overrated: University of Floridaā¦ So very much. I could safely say that the majority of my high school has UF as their top choice school, and would wind up feeling pretty inferior if they wound up going to the other big state schools here. The mentality here is screwed up, and things like āI didnāt apply to UFā or āI want to go out of stateā are not commonly saidā¦</p>
<p>Underrated: New College is an excellent and underrated college here, and Iāve also heard that Rollins is very good but I donāt know very much about it. But the fact is that every school in Florida besides UF underrated because people put so much hype into UF. Almost everyone I know considers UCF, UNF, UWF, USF, FAU, and FSU vastly inferior to UF. I know this doesnāt apply to everyone in Florida but it certainly seems to apply to a majority, atleast in HS. I live a little over an hour away from New College and yet hardly anyone in my school has even heard of it, because all thatās going through their minds is āGod I hope I get accepted to UF.ā</p>
<p>Florida colleges, and the way kids perceive Florida colleges, just generally annoy meā¦ Donāt come here.</p>
<p>Wow. Some rather mixed reactions about SUNYās. While I do agree that they arent exactly the best public schools in the country, some of their programs are elite. For example, binghamton for accounting, buffalo for engineering, geneseo for teaching, stony brook for sciences. There are definitely some good choices out there. Are they on the same level as cornell and columbia? Absolutely not. But Syracuse? NYU? St. Johns? Perhaps in some respects. Really though, no flagship campus is killing the system. Should probably get on that.</p>
<p>
ā¦What? Lol.</p>
<p>overrated-university of lousiville</p>
<p>underrated-university of kentucky</p>
<p>Under-rated: Llanview University</p>
<p>Over-rated: Pine Valley University</p>
<p>note of caution: these are fictional universities on soap operas</p>
<p>^^^A soap opera about to be cancelled.</p>