<p>The Ivies are overrated.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is very underrated.</p>
<p>Gomestar U is way overrrrrated.</p>
<p>G G G G G G G-unit!</p>
<p>I feel like UCLA is overrated in Californina.</p>
<p>A lot of my friends think that JHU and Cornell are not as good as they are ranked......</p>
<p>University of Texas and University of Florida are underrated</p>
<p>Underrated: Probably every Catholic university: Notre Dame, Georgetown, Boston College being the largest ones. There is a myth that a Catholic school can't be a real school, which is totally false especially with the growth in the last few years.</p>
<p>Overrated: I know quite a few undergraduates from Cal, and knowing that those people are not a representative sample of the whole school, I'm still glad that I didn't enroll there.</p>
<p>Fordham's undergraduate population is larger than Georgetown. I agree with your post about Catholic schools. Especially Holy Cross, Wheaton, St. Louis University, Creighton, and Gonzaga are all severely underrated / unrecognized. </p>
<p>Some people have incorrect stigmas about Catholic schools. They think that by going there the priests are going to try and convert them; and that couldn't be farther from the truth. Especially at Jesuit schools. What is odd is that Jesuits have been known for their emphasis on education and acceptance of others for centuries.</p>
<p>I don't really think any school is overrated. The only school I may considered overrated at times is Harvard. Everyone thinks it's the god of schools but there are some schools that offer better programs for certain majors than Harvards.</p>
<p>Underrated: Northwestern, Wake Forest, Boston University, Colorado College, Haverford, Dickinson, UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p>Overrated: Harvard, Brown, Tufts, Stanford, Wash U, Dartmouth, Duke</p>
<p>Most overrated: Yale, UC Berkely, and possibly Standford.
Underrated: UCI</p>
<p>Holy Cross is underrated-school is one of few LAC's with Rhodes,Pulitzer, Nobel prize alumni among LAC's. HC also has one of the highest alumni giving rates. Other underrated schools Bowdoin, W&L, W&Mary. Overrated-2nd tier Ivies, WashU.</p>
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<p>True, except Georgetown's is smarter. ;)</p>
<p>Overrated: A lot of schools
Underrated: A lot of schools</p>
<p>I would be offended if I thought that comparing the "smartness" of my school's student body against Georgetown's actually meant anything.</p>
<p>uh wake forest anybody?????????????????????????????
to me the fact that nobody has mentioned it makes it underated.
what are you guys thoughts on this school???</p>
<p>Over-rated: WUSTL, Vanderbilt, USC
Under-rated: Georgia Tech</p>
<p>I'll def. agree that Work Forest is highly underrated. One of the top 3 most difficult schools, good looking people, good sports, good weather, great academics, decent location.</p>
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<p>Really? For what?</p>
<p>Most Overrated: University of Pennsylvania, WUSTL
Most Underrated: Tufts</p>
<p>Tufts has recently been slandered with the term "Tufts Syndrome", this may have been true a couple of years ago, but these days, Tufts is far from that. For the past few years, at least from my school, Tufts accepted the most qualified applicants and that was it.</p>
<p>Wake is a superb school. They call it "work forest" because its a school where they work you to death. Some departments are stronger than others, like most colleges. Its clearly underrated.</p>
<p>WashU is not overrated in my considered opinion. There are no fewer than 10 departments that are ranked in the top 10 and its graduate and professional programs are in the top 10-25. Its a superb school. </p>
<p>Its not so much that many of the top tier schools, like the Ivy's are "overrated" as much as they are not nearly as far ahead of some of the other schools as they think they are. </p>
<p>Having a smart student body is only one factor, not the only factor.</p>
<p>But it doesnt matter anyway. The only thing that matters is that you/your child are happy where you are.</p>
<p>There are lots of kids with perfect SAT scores and 4.0gpa UW at schools you would not expect them to be at, and they are very happy.</p>
<p>When companies hire you, they dont rank you as employees based upon your undergraduate alma mater and pay you accordingly. And even if there is a small premium paid to the top name school graduates, its what you do with your degree after the fact that really counts.</p>