<p>^ Northeastern also has a school of arts and sciences like most other “top ranked” research institutes. Why are we less inclined to pursue traditional academia? what makes us so much different than University of Southern California besides coop? Obviously they are a tougher school to get into but generally we offer the same majors and colleges. NU core which every student has to partake in is requirements outside of our major concentrations so we do get a decent exposure to the liberal arts atmosphere. The general misconception is that Northeastern is a 5 year program when it really can be 4, it’s up to the students as to how they want to shape the program. Coop and research colloborations with profossers can be interchanged which a lot of students do by the way.</p>
<p>Northeastern’s hockey team also sucks.</p>
<p>^Oh really? as i recall we were consistently ranked in the top 15 this year and i believe we were seeded fairly high in the NCAA tournament. We absolutely handed it to BC in the beanpot and made it to the finals (BU had an awesome team this year by the way). We also sent a couple players to the NHL and had one of the top goalies in the country. How can you say we sucked? and our fans absolutely dominate the other beanpot schools.</p>
<p>I have nothing against Northeastern btw, just trying to explain why it might be ranked so low. I’m not terribly familiar with the school, but all the people I’ve known who have gone there have been intelligent and well-rounded people. To me it’s one of many examples of why one shouldn’t take USNWR at face value. It’s a great school and suits the needs/interests of many students better than a higher-ranked school such as USC or BU might.</p>
<p>Overrated: Boston College, Lehigh</p>
<p>Underrated: WPI</p>
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<p>Yes, I’m aware; I was at the National Championship. NCAA Champs baby 
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<p>Not based on US news rankings.</p>
<p>Overrated: Georgetown, Boston College, Brown, UPenn, Cal, Michigan.</p>
<p>Underrated: UChicago, WUSTL, Duke, Rice, Cornell.</p>
<p>overrated: harvard
underrated: ucla</p>
<p>overrated: Boston College (agree with above posters)</p>
<p>i have a friend transferring out now because of racial segregation and how all the white people there are ******bags. </p>
<p>underrated: UCSD</p>
<p>always being dwarfed by UC berkeley and UCLA but UCSD truly has amazing science departments, and has a great location as well. I think it’ll only be a matter of years before UCSD is on par with the other two UC giants.</p>
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<p>Bingo !</p>
<p>Overrated: Carnegie Mellon, brown, duke</p>
<p>underrated: Tufts, boston college, Rice</p>
<p>Overrated: Any school that rejects me
underrated: Any school that accepts me</p>
<p>–to all the overrated schools…i will come back for my revenge<br>
hahahaha</p>
<p>Overrated: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD
Underrated: Claremont McKenna, Wake Forest, Washinton and Lee</p>
<p>An Ohioan’s perspective</p>
<p>Overrated:
- Harvard
- Brown
- Dartmouth
- Georgetown
- Vanderbilt
- Notre Dame
- Johns Hopkins
- UC-Berkeley</p>
<p>Slightly Overrated:
- Duke- amazing school though!
- WUSTL
- Michigan</p>
<p>Neither Overrated or Underrated:
- Yale
- Princeton
- Columbia
- UPenn
- Stanford
- MIT
- Cornell
- Northwestern
- Carnegie Mellon
- UVA
- UNC</p>
<p>Underrated:
- Rice
- Emory
- Pomona
- Davidson
- Wake Forest
- Tufts</p>
<p>I love how a bunch of schools appear on both the overrated and underrated lists equally!</p>
<p>overrated:
Duke - ranked too high on USNEWS, too many sycophants on this website just because it was ranked 4-6 for many years.
MIT - Thoroughly unimpressed with every one I’ve ever encountered from this school, both socially and how smart they are (met tons)
WUSTL - highly manipulative of admissions, us news rank is too high
Harvard - Just because everyone has heard of it, does not give it a significant edge with employers or grad schools relative to other top 5/ top 10 schools
Caltech - the school churns out socially inept morons, friends at Caltech have testified, others at caltech have been good exhibits. I’ve met my fair share of kids who are also not that impressive.
Emory, Vandy, ND
Berkeley - One of the best grad schools, one of the worst undergrad schools in the top 30. </p>
<p>Appropriately rated:
U Chicago (still not as selective as it could be, but star studded faculty to make up), Y, P, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Cornell, Northwestern, Rice, NYU, CMU, UVA, U Mich, USC</p>
<p>Slightly underrated: Columbia (by usnews, but not by most other measures)</p>
<p>Underrated:
Brown (should beat out WUSTL, NW and be on par with Duke for undergrad),
Caltech (other people have no clue how difficult it is to cope at this school),
Georgetown, Tufts (gtown and tufts have amazing international politics and churn out world leaders)</p>
<p>^^^Caltech is overrated and underrated.</p>
<p>It’s kind of like wave-particle duality. The only way to properly rate Caltech is with a paradox.</p>
<p>^ lol…</p>
<p>Yeah, the kids at Caltech are extremely weird, nerdy/geeky geniuses. Everyone that is somewhat obsessed with engineering/math and is an MIT type will also look into the Caltech option. So for that group, it is overrated. Outside of that group (plus their families/friends and the college-obsessed) it is somewhat unknown/not talked about, and I live like twenty minutes away from the school.</p>