<p>(In Ivy-Land....)</p>
<p>Overrated: Penn (Wharton), your mom
Underrated: Penn (SAS)</p>
<p>johnnyK, the only overrated thing is yourself!</p>
<p>With all due respect, all you do is go around this board trashing other schools in favor of your own. Penn is a great school. Don't throw it in other people's faces. And in fact, Penn is overrated!!!!!</p>
<h1>7 school in the country, plzzzzzzzz</h1>
<p>By definition I think I would have to have a swath of other people singing my praises before I could be qualified as "overrated" in anything, champ.</p>
<p>Yeah, the joke is you obviously have self-esteem issues that you have to say that a division within your own school is overrated. The only problem is that you are not a Wharton student. Poor little Johnny! I guess not everyone can be a real ivy leaguer at Penn!</p>
<p>Notice the sarcasm! And I am not trying to be harsh. But you certainly throw some harsh words out there sometimes to promote your own school</p>
<p>You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who actually knows me who thinks I have anything close to self-esteem issues. It's usually problems at the other end of the scale with "delusions of grandeur"</p>
<p>Anyway, ad hominem attacks rarely serve to reinforce one's point, as your latest outburts makes clear.</p>
<p>I think the entire American univeristy system is overrated. Not that many American universities aren't excellent -- many of them are. I just don't think they are as excellent as some foreigners tend to think, and not as excellent as some Americans tend to think. (although a lot of Americans do agree with me on this so it really depends on the person) The influx of Indian and Chinese foreign students there I think has much more to do with a massive bandwagon effect and lack of capacity at good institutions in the home country than actual value of an American education.</p>
<p>Disclaimer: this is an opinion; please don't flame me.</p>
<p>nauru, although american universites certainly aren't perfect, I think the US overall has the best university system of any country.</p>
<p>Overrated: The Ivy League</p>
<p>Underrated: University of Southern California
Although a phenomenal university in every respect, many people regard USC as a party school with students who have no interest in academics. These people fail to realize that USC has increased it academic ranking faster than any other university, and that its current statistics that indicate the academic excellence of its students, such as SAT scores, are among the highest.</p>
<p>Although USC is making great efforts to overcome its past and its image, the claim that it "has increased its academic ranking faster than any other university" is specious without substantiation. It is also a little ironic to premise this achievement based on SAT scores while at the same time asserting that the Ivy League, all eight of which have higher SAT scores than USC, is "overrated."</p>
<p>That's not quite what's being claimed by proudtrojan, though. He's not claiming that USC is better than the ivys. All he's saying is that USC is typically underrated and that ivy's are overrated, i.e., the gap between an ivy and USC is in reality smaller than typically perceived, or generally thought of.</p>
<p>Just because something's "the best", doesn't mean it can't be overrated :)</p>
<p>Overrated: Duke</p>
<p>Duke is an amazing school....stop it.</p>
<p>Overrated: Non-HYP ivys
Underrated: Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona
Underrated but overRANKED: WUStL</p>
<p>Most underrated: Colorado State University. I transferred from one of the "overrated" schools and let me tell you, the engineering and sciences, vet med, and many other departments are solid, solid, solid. The profs are accessible and actually want to help you, the other students are good people that you will want to stay friends with forever and the campus, town and weather are like shangri-la. Plus, it's cheap and there's even a lot of merit money. Campusdirt rates it 80th of ALL universities, by students, including Ivy's, LAC and all the other top public and private universities in the country. Come live the difference.</p>
<p>LACs are underrated as a whole. Tufts and Rice are overrated.</p>
<p>Agree about LAC's being underrated-Holy Cross,W&L,Davidson are some.</p>
<p>I definately agree with the LAC's being overrated. I'm surprised that not a lot of people recognize how good Washington and Lee is...I mean...I've always thought of it as a "reach" school whereas most people haven't even heard of it!</p>
<p>Also, I must say that many of the Seven Sisters colleges are underrated...especially since many people seem to have a certain stigma about the women's colleges and refuse to even give them consideration. It's such a shame, but at the same time, I am glad that the competition for admission is lower than at other well-known universities =P.</p>
<p>Haha, not sure the lower competition holds true for every Seven Sister, because the really good ones have very low admission rates - competition is about the same when you consider the number of students vying for very few places.</p>
<p>if the same schools are mentioned as underrated by everyone...how are they still underrated? :)</p>