<p>reed still is not cool.</p>
<p>What's cool? Frat parties and chug-a-lug beer contests? If you have a problem with the nature of Reed's academic offerings than maybe you have a problem with the nature of higher education. That is the point of going to college, is it not? Education?</p>
<p>What school received the most undergrad applications for 06? I thought it was UCLA, but someone said NYU so I'm confused now.</p>
<p>"overated: michigan state...its ranked 77th best or whatever: its just a party school with athletics...if you want a good party, go to state</p>
<p>if you want a public ivy league education, go to u of m"</p>
<p>First of all, this is not an 'overrated' school. It is most certainly 'underrated'. </p>
<p>It is NOT just a party school with athletics. Ask any student in Madison or Lyman-Briggs. They're not at parties, they're studying. Or ask any student in the honors college. They're not partying because they're at the Smithsonian doing research as part of a assistant professorship. MSU treats its top students like kings and queens - they will bend over backwards if you choose to go there instead of the other school down the road, and with significant merit aid, often in the form of full-tuition plus room & board and a stipend, more students are realizing this.</p>
<p>Its ACT and GPA averages are going up steadily and its admission rate is creeping down. Certain programs, like the residential colleges, fill up by mid-October. There is a BIG demand for a lot of programs there. If you want to study abroad, it's the best school in the country. They just quadrupled the size of their art museum and are building a new music building because the top music students in the state don't have the numbers to get into Michigan - so where are they going? MSU.</p>
<p>Over-rated: Notredame, UPenn, University of Chicago, Washington University
Under-rated: USC, UT-Austin, University of Washington, NYU</p>
<p>USC underrated and university of chicago overrated???!!!</p>
<p>Over-rated: Princeton
Under-rated: Olin</p>
<p>This is very true</p>
<p>overated: UC schools
underrated: maryland college park</p>
<p>overrated: wellesley. i mean come on, it's a women's college. even if an all-male college was 10 times better, it could never crack the top 25.</p>
<p>Wellesley is easily one of the best colleges in the country and has top notch academics. It also has one of the highest endowments per student in the country - not at the Yale or Princeon level, but up there. This has nothing to do with it being a women's college.</p>
<p>Most overrated: NYU
Most underrated: Tufts</p>
<p>Most overrated: NYU, USC, HYP</p>
<p>Most underrated: Cornell, virtually every LAC known to exist</p>
<p>Underrated: Carnegie Mellon, Rice, Olin, Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>"Most overrated: NYU, USC, HYP</p>
<p>Most underrated: Cornell, virtually every LAC known to exist"</p>
<p>The most comprehensive and accurate response so far. ;)</p>
<p>Just add MSU!</p>
<p>Harvard, the basis for comparison for every school in the country, overrated? Please.</p>
<p>Also, how in the world is Cornell underrated? Give me a break.</p>
<p>underrated- chicago, ucsd, emory</p>
<p>overrated- washu , tufts, cal</p>
<p>overrated Harvard
uunderrated Wash U</p>
<p>Overrated - Ohio State
Underrated - Marquette, St. Louis Univ, Tufts</p>
<p>once again, if an all-male college existed with better professors, an endowment twice the size of wellesley's, a lower acceptance rate, etc., it would be ranked no higher than 25. i never said wellesley wasn't a great school with "top notch academics" (unique word choice); all i said was that it was overrated due to the fact that it is the best all-women's college. it is consistently ranked higher than bowdoin, wesleyan, pomona, davidson, W&L, grinnell when it is not better than any of those schools.</p>