most overrated/underrated college?

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<p>Overrated: Brown, UC-Berkeley, Colorado C, UC-San Diego, Cornell, Penn State, Boston C, UC-Davis, Wash U, Vassar, Macalester, DePauw, UWashington, Fordham, Pepperdine, Boston U, George Washington, UMaryland-College Park.</p>

<p>Underrated: Earlham, Trinity (CT), Beloit, Holy Cross, Rhodes, Dickinson, William & Mary, Davidson, Knox, Goucher, Wheaton (MA), Hampshire, The Evergreen State C, Lewis & Clark, C of Wooster, Hendrix, UChicago, UColorado-Boulder, Franklin & Marshall, UIowa, UKansas, UVM.</p>

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<p>overated - Ivies (they really are put on a pedestal), REED (if it gets any props tahts sad), Rice</p>

<p>underrated - Middlebury, Colgate, Bowdoin, Vanderbilt, WashU, Colby, Amherst/Williams</p>

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<p>The most underrated school in the country is Deep Springs College. Look it up.</p>

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<p>Porsche 06,</p>

<p>I'm 100% sure NYU Stern is a core recruiting school at top banks, with a very few exceptions that only recruit at the absolute tops (ex. Blackstone - Harvard, Wharton). I'm not saying Stern can match those schools. However, I'm saying that Stern's recruiting, esp. in finance-related field, most notably i-banking, can match recruiting at lower-tier ivies and their peers. It certainly is right on par with the likes of Northwestern, Duke, Chicago, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, and Columbia.</p>

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<p>Is anybody here fed up with using New York finiancial institutions' recruiting as a measure of academic quality or prestige? Give it a rest, guys.</p>

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<p>Overrated: BU, BC, UCLA, BERKELEY
Underrated: GATech,</p>

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<p>Overrated: Michigan State, UCSD, and BU
Underrated: UTexas, UFlorida, UGA, FSU, and UIUC</p>

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<p>"Is anybody here fed up with using New York finiancial institutions' recruiting as a measure of academic quality or prestige?"</p>

<p>YES, YES!</p>

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<p>Overrated: Penn State, Hopkins, UMich (undergrad), Emory, Berekeley (undergrad), NYU
Underrated: Rice, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Washington & Lee</p>

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<p>How is MSU overrated?</p>

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<p>Black nerds? Ridiculous!</p>

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<p>totally :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:</p>

<p>:D</p>

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<p>Radix,
You're being delusional. Perhaps you would like to think that Stern is held in the same esteem as others but I used to work at MS and only certain divisions recruited at Stern. It wasn't recruited across the board. I am not saying you can't graduate from Stern and get a great job at MS, but you definitely have to kick a$$!! Good luck!</p>

<p>BTW, Blackstone recruits at Harvard, Virginia, Columbia and Wharton according to the Vault guide. Doesn't mention Stern...</p>

<p><a href="http://www.vault.com/companies/company_main.jsp?product_id=1915&ch_id=240&co_page=2&tabnum=2&v=3%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.vault.com/companies/company_main.jsp?product_id=1915&ch_id=240&co_page=2&tabnum=2&v=3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I think University of Minnesota is underrated...
For an out-of-state student, overrated would be UCs</p>

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<p>Porsche,</p>

<p>What are others? If you mean by HYPSM, no, Stern clearly isn't in that absolute elite level. If you are talking about lower ivies and other top 25's, then yes, Stern is clearly in that group. </p>

<p>Top 10 recruiting firms that hired the most graduates in the past academic year
Goldman Sachs<br>
JP Morgan Chase<br>
Citigroup<br>
Ernst & Young<br>
Deutsche Bank<br>
Bank of America<br>
Deloitte<br>
PricewaterhouseCoopers<br>
Credit Suisse; Merrill Lynch<br>
Lehman Brothers; Bear Stearns</p>

<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06profiles/stern3.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06profiles/stern3.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You're right. No MS on that list. But GS, ML, JP Morgan, LB. That's not too bad I'd say. If I'm being delusional, I guess those banks are full of delusional people who recruit at Stern, esp. Goldamn Sachs, arguably the most prestigious bank. </p>

<p>Oh, and about Blackstone, you conveniently left out the second part of the sentence. </p>

<p>"Blackstone recruits at Columbia, Harvard, Virginia and Penn (Wharton), but concentrates on finding undergrads at Harvard and Wharton -- "any others depend on which alum feels like going to their alma mater to recruit that year," offers an insider. </p>

<p>"Another source agrees that "analysts primarily come from Harvard and Wharton," but admits "there are a few from other schools, including Yale and UT Austin." </p>

<p>Clearly, other than Harvard and Wharton, other schools depend "on which alum feels like going to their alma mater to recruit that year," which doesn't reflect the overall strength of the school's recruiting. </p>

<p>And you're right, no Stern there, which I'm very much aware of. It's ok, I'm not crying; there are plenty other banks that do recruit at Stern. Thanks for the good luck. :)</p>

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<p>Overratted: NYU, Most of the UC's like UCLA and Berkeley, Most of the Ivies like U Penn and Harvard, Stanford, U of North Carolina, U of Michigan, Boston University, U of Florida, U of Virginia, U of Texas, USC, Cal Tech, Emory, U of Illinois, Ohio State University, Purdue,Penn State, Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Underrated: Tufts, Fordham, American, George Washington, Georgetown, Syracuse, Rutgers, James Madison University, Tulane, Miami, Rice, Pepperdine, Northeastern, Carnegie Mellon University, Wake Forest University, Brandeis University, William & Mary, Lehigh University, Miami (ohio), Case Western, Northwestern</p>

<p>I think it all depends where you live, like if you live in NYC you hear alot about NYU and Columbia... In Jersey it's all about Rutgers etc...</p>

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<p>BU is overrated in perception only, its rated fine by USNews, its just that people think that its much better than it is, or they confuse it with BC :)</p>

<p>I dont think CalTech is overrated, NYU is terribly overrated, PSU is overrated in USNews but not in general perception (perhaps it should be ranked 60th to 70th), USC is definitely overrated, OSU and Purdue not really, Vandy somewhat, UNC definitely (Wake is a better school), UVA not at all, its probably slightly underrated, UT-Austin maybe slightly, UIUC not really, its a good value for in state and has some really good grad programs, Michigan maybe slightly but i think its rated fine, Florida yes it is, and i think that it for those.</p>

<p>Underrated: NOT GTown or Tufts.. Brandeis is, W&M is, Wake is (though US News has them about right), Lehigh is the same case as Wake, Case Western is probably rated fine, Northwestern is fine, I think Syracuse is overrated, it doesnt belong in the top 50 (my friend with like a 920 SAT got in), Northeastern is rated fine, CMU is very underrated, Pepperdine has a nice location but its ranking in the top 60 is fine, Rice maybe slightly underrated but USNews has it basically right.</p>

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<p>How is NYU terribly overrated?</p>

<p>How is CMU very underrated?</p>

<p>How is UTexas overrated?</p>

<p>Just honest questions...wondering how some of you justify labels.</p>

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<p>NYU its obvious..people only want to go there for its location for the most part (50000 apps is a little ridiculous, and its still not even that hard to get in). it costs 50K i think, and you can get a better education at SUNY Binghamton for 1/4th the price.</p>

<p>CMU, well nobody ever talks about it along with the top 25 schools, maybe because its in pittsburgh, away from a lot of the other top schools in the northeast, but it has a top 10-15 business school (Tepper) and the best CS program (as well as several other top engineering and science programs)</p>

<p>UT, its not really that overrated, i just think because of the success of the football, and more recently the basketball teams, everyone knows about UT and this improves its reputation as a school which is unwarranted. UT is probably the 6th-8th best public
1. Berkeley
2. UVA
3. UCLA
4. Michigan
5. Wisconsin
and then UT/UNC/UCSD however you want to rank them</p>

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and you can get a better education at SUNY Binghamton for 1/4th the price.

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<p>Tell me you don't really believe that. Perhaps in some instances one can receive a comparable education, but NYU is considered one of the best in multiple fields, whereas SUNY Binghamton...is not. I will be glad to list the departments in which NYU excels if you wish.</p>

<p>CMU - I will agree that it receives little praise as compared to its peers. Still, I think it is right where it needs to be in the rankings and if anything it should not be any higher.</p>

<p>UT has continuously moved up in the rankings. To argue that it is not a strong institution academically and receives undeserved praise merely because of its football team is an unsubstantiated claim. It has many programs that are considered among the best in the nation, including Engineering, Business, Plan II Honors, Pre-Law, and Communications. I know quite a few people that turned down top 30 schools for UT-Austin's top programs because they were a better deal financially yet still offered an excellent education.</p>

<p>I would say UT is better than or equal to Wisconsin overall but will never attain that level of respect due to its own legislative shortcomings.</p>