<p>um I'd beg to differ. PhD is a big deal; and admission to top PhD programs says a lot about the academic quality of a school, or at least of the students they admit.</p>
<p>And also, just so everyone knows, the list of top feeder schools to 15 professional schools was constructed using things like facebook profiles, so it's not 100% accurate. There were several other threads on it, but I'm too busy to go find it.</p>
<p>Who said this before: Online arguments go nowhere with nobody convincing anybody else in the end.</p>
<p>i really think Tufts, Rice, and U of Rochester are very underrated.</p>
<p>and Brandeis is quite underrated too</p>
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You're missing the point. :rolleyes: The point is that most colleges don't reveal where their graduates get their PhDs, so placement numbers (e.g. "80% get a PhD") are useless for comparison purposes.</p>
<p>underrated: rice, CMU, Uchicago</p>
<p>U Chicago is getting more recognition now. It might jump to 8 next year.</p>
<p>i never thought uchic was underrated thought it was overated O.o</p>
<p>Yeah, I think the University of Chicago is starting to get overrated ever since it jumped to #9 last year. Good for U of C but...not sure it belongs in the top 10. Top 15, maybe. I suspect the admissions rate might drop this year below its steady 40%.</p>
<p>Let's see...back on topic:</p>
<p>Overrated - can't really say...all great schools really. I suppose Vanderbilt, Emory, and Notre Dame, simply because I don't believe they should be above Berkeley and Virginia and maybe Michigan in the rankings. </p>
<p>Underrated - LACs mostly.</p>
<p>most overrated is Duke
most underrated is Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>The only way Duke is overrated is its basketball team (ranked number 5 for two weeks, cmon)</p>
<p>I think it should be in a ranking tie with Brown Dartmouth and Penn instead of above the former two and below Penn.</p>
<p>underrated: Ohio State</p>
<p>BYU is underrated
Yale is overrated</p>
<p>Maryland is underrated.</p>
<p>The University of Florida is underrated</p>
<p>Overrated: Penn, WUSTL
Underrated: Rice, Tufts</p>
<p>How the hell is Penn overrated? Have you heard of the Ivy League, Wharton, Penn's med and law programs? Ben Franklin???</p>
<p>Overrated: Harvard
Underrtated: your state school</p>
<p>Harvard on the undergrad level is definitely overrated.</p>
<p>Venkat - the underrated part only works so often. I doubt the University of Alaska at Anchorage really deserves to be any higher.</p>
<p>true, but if you live in Alaska and have good stats, you will probably get into lots of good colleges, and others with merit aid for bringing diversity. Going to college for free is underrated as well.</p>
<p>hell yeah it is!</p>
<p>(3900 posts for me = official super nerd) :( :)</p>