<p>“Colleges should not require literature classes in a vain attempt to promote reading.”</p>
<p>“Yes, they should just offer libraries!”</p>
<p>-These are all, of course, different educational philosophies. In fact, some schools have few to no requirements at all; whereas some pretty much pick their students’ entire schedules. I do not agree with certain educational philosophies, among them are the “great books” approach to learning, and required PE classes.</p>
<p>"However, colleges requiring a few semesters of PE is not doing anything meaningful to help the situation."</p>
<p>It appears that the rest of us simply disagree. Can we drop it?</p>
<p>To my knowledge, this forum is for discussing opinions and such. If you don’t like my opinion, you are more than welcome to say so (as you did), but I’m not going to squelch my thoughts just because you say so.</p>
<p>Overrated: University of Colorado
Underrated: University of Denver</p>
<p>Healthy thought:
I read that 1 can of pop a day will add 15 pounds in a year...
Hmmmm (?) Maybe water instead of pop, and walk or run to all classes.</p>
<p>Switch to the diet stuff. Drink all you want. Who still drinks the sugar stuff anyway??</p>
<p>"I do not agree with certain educational philosophies, among them are the “great books” approach to learning, and required PE classes."</p>
<p>Okay, I get it. You're unconventional and unique. Whoo hoo.</p>
<p>vastly overrated: harvard, nyu, washu
vastly underrated: tufts, connecticut college</p>
<p>Over-rated:Duke, Stanford, Brown, Penn, Emory, NYU,Cornell, Harvard
Under-rated: Umass, Temple</p>
<p>conn college</p>
<p>Nice slam of kk, ballerina. He and I have been going at it for a while, but I never got in a haymaker like that.</p>
<p>Haymaker? …… Hardly……. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>thats easy for the most over-rated. HARVARD. i'm from New England and we have a saying that goes the hahdest paht about Hahvahd is getting in.</p>
<p>Most under rated i would have to say BATES. it get's alot of bad press from its counterparts Bowdoin and Colby. But is really shouldn't even be compared with them except for it's location. it has a whole different feel than B&C</p>
<p>Overrated: All the ivy except Princeton</p>
<p>Underrated: UC BERKELEY and most of the LAC's</p>
<p>UC Berkeley is majorly overrated in california.</p>
<p>I disagree, UMass has a lot of things, but really, the school it what you make of it and sadly the immense resources are taking advantage of by less than a quarter of the students. What the student body has really made out of UMass these days is NCAA basketball and one of the best party schools in the state. Add on top of that, the school has hands down the worst residential campus for a university in the state (atleast Dartmouth is cohesive and BU shifts scenery).</p>
<p>I think that's why so many those that have the slightest option to go somewhere else besides UMass, will go somewhere else. Even if that simply means Roger Williams (RI) or UConn (CT) only b/c our states schools are about as appealing as multi-grain wheat bread, but if that's the only bread you have...</p>
<p>"Overrated: All the ivy except Princeton"</p>
<p>At the high end of academics (e.g., the percentage of BA/BS graduates who later earn a PhD), Yale is up there with Princeton, both in the top ten for five academic disciplines; the other six ivys don't appear in the top ten lists. Caltech, MIT, U Chicago and the LACs dominate the lists. This is from the HEDS data, and is just one narrow but objective measure of academic quality.</p>
<p>I wouldn't, at all, characterize a school as "better" because it sends a higher % on to get a PhD. It says something about the school's personality, but not its academic quality.</p>
<p>More underrateds: Bates, Wheaton, although not as underrated as Wesleyan.</p>
<p>overrated: nyu
underrated: cornell</p>
<p>overrated: this thread
underrated: search button</p>