<p>New Mexico Tech is a hidden gem in terms of cost and education quality.
Small school though, and males are 80% of the students.</p>
<p>ITT: bitter rejects trying to feel better about their lower ranked schools.</p>
<p>lol luckoftheirish you seem pretty biased. If northeastern didnāt have the co-op program, no1 would have ever heard of it.
from what you just said, you think Boston College is overrated because people who are interested in sports want to be in an environment where sports are important to the university? Thats like saying a chefs school is overrated because people who want to cook go there.</p>
<p>Overrated: Penn State, Lehigh, Drexel
Underrated: Temple, Pitt, West Chester</p>
<p>What I said about the overrated schools are not just based on personal opinion, but rather what I hear/observe consistently from students and alum from these schools. Columbia is definitely overrated, in fact I think many Ivy League schools are overrated. Yes, they have great academics, but I do think there are plenty of other lesser known schools that can give the Ivy League a run for their money as far as quality of education, especially in the undergraduate level. I know many people who have gone to Ivy League schools undergrad who complain about their experiences. Obviously, the Ivy League is not as great as people make it seem and there is plenty of opportunity to get an excellent education outside the Ivy League.</p>
<p>People who say Harvard is overrated are people who canāt get in. Yeah, instead of saying how you suck when someone throws the name at you, you trash the school instead to make yourself feel better.</p>
<p>California
Overrated: USC</p>
<p>Way underrated: Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>Minnesota</p>
<p>Overrated: St. Olaf- a bunch of conservatives blind to the real world, people pick it over the U and end up with no jobs available except teachers. Seriously like a third of the teachers at my school went to St. Olaf and my dad said he knows basically nobody that went there at his work (he works for a big company)</p>
<p>Underrated: University of Minnesota (better known as the U to MN residents)- does not get enough oos recognition. Has some seriously great programs (econ, poli sci, psych, biology, chem engineering are all top 15-20 and business is top 30) and is a steal for oos students with tution clocking in at about 14k. Great campus and location as well, would give a strong look if you want to save some money and can bare the winter.</p>
<p>Texas</p>
<p>Overrated - TCU and SMU (where all the people with money go and the education is not worth it)
Baylor -( it always gets hype for having a good medical program but thats only because people think it is associated with Baylor College of Medicineā¦which its not and it costs too much when u can get a better education at UT)</p>
<p>Underrated - Texas A&M - ( most people call this a hick school but it actually has pretty good programsā¦not as good as UT but its pretty good)
UT honors - (it can provide just as good of an education that you might get at a top public like Berkeley)
Rice University - (now I know im going to get crap from Texas locals but I dont think it gets the hype it deserves from outside the state especially in the Northeast where Ivys reign supremeā¦I believe that its academics are on par with schools such as Duke, Northwestern,Hopkins etc.)</p>
<p>@opened skittles āRice - Sure itās hard to get in, but it seems like thatās the main appeal.ā
Im from SE Houston and I dont believe that this is accurate at all(there is always a few exceptions). Along with the academics it has been named #1 in Quality of Life and #1 Best Value in Private Schools
One of the best academics in the country and the best in the state bring Rice to a students eye but these reasons are what makes students want to apply and attend.</p>
<p>California </p>
<p>UCB - I think its pretty overrated
UCD - Definitely underrated</p>
<p>Overrated - UGA in state
Underrated - UGA out of state, GT</p>
<p>UGA is overrated for in state students in the sense that at my school the only school the teachers use to promote taking AP classes. A lot of them said āLast year 700 kids with 4.0ās were declined from UGA for not taking rigorous classes.ā The kids I talk to see it as one of the best schools you can attend.</p>
<p>UGA is underrated because I think a lot of out of state kids view it as some party school with no focus on academics. My biology teacher told us to help her remember the stop codon āUGAā her professor said āAll learning stops at UGA.ā Its becoming a better and better school to attend that now more top kids are looking at, especially due to the HOPE scholarship.</p>
<p>GT is underrated in state I think. Many kids see a school where the ānerds go who couldnāt get into anything better.ā Thats actually a quote.</p>
<p>Illinois:</p>
<p>Underrated: Illinois Wesleyan (great for slightly above average liberal arts students), Wheaton College (One of Popeās 40 colleges that change lives)</p>
<p>Overrated: UIUC - Gives itself a bit too much credit imo.</p>
<p>Rated accurately: Northwestern - At least around me, we send many grads there, but they are very bright kids and are top-school caliber students. Earlier posters said NU is overrated, which I canāt believe for a second, and another said that it is underrated when compared to ivies and other top schools. This may be true, but its admissions are still very competitive and it attracts many of the same top students that could just as well be at those other top schools.</p>
<p>Also rated accurately: Bradley - My sister goes there, so Iāve been there many times. I hate it. The academic atmosphere seems like nothing special and the social life seems really boring. I think itās accurately regarded as ājust a safety school.ā</p>
<p>OREGON</p>
<p>Overrated: Reed College
Underrated: Linfield College</p>
<p>CALIFORNIA
<strong>within the Claremont Colleges</strong>
Overrated: Pomona
Underrated: Pitzer</p>
<p>I like how the best schools in the nation occupied by world-class faculty, state of the art facilities, and extraordinarily intelligent and diverse student bodies are deemed āoverratedā. But itās understandable- I mean, how can schools in the caliber of MIT, Harvard, and the such be underrated in any respect?</p>
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<p>Precisely what I was going to say. It feels like thereās a lot of kids who think Berkeley is the best university in the world and if they donāt get in they might have to be stuck going to Davis. Also, people say āewwwwwwwww Davis has cowsā and itās amazing how many people put that as a big negative when I see it as world leading research going on.</p>
<p>California</p>
<p>Overrated: USC
Underrated: Santa Clara</p>
<p>Geoffs, I completely agree with your post. Could not have said it any better</p>
<p>Underrated: University of minnesota</p>
<p>Overrated: UMD, St. Thomas, St. Olaf, Bemidji State, Macalester, Carlton</p>
<p>Just wonderingāfor people naming all of these schools, where are you getting your information? Personal experience? Really? I doubt it.</p>
<p>A better question would be how overrated the importance of a studentās undergraduate institution has become these days. I could see the argument for āThe Ivy League is overrated in that you certainly donāt NEED a degree from one of its schools in order to get a good job/go to grad school/succeed in life/etc.ā but simply throwing out āHarvard is overratedā makes you sound uninformed, if not a little bitter.</p>
<p>I am guessing that you did not make the cut at U Mich then??</p>