<p>Tinfoyl, how surprising that you, as a NU student, think that it’s underrated. Emory, btw, is far from overrated. It is neither respected on these forums nor in everyday life as much as it should be. It has top chemistry, biology, french, religion, english, history, political science, business programs on the undergrad level. On the graduate level, it has top medical, law, business and nursing programs. If anything is overrated, it is Georgetown. It’s a great school for few subjects but is not too great for the vast majority of others.</p>
<p>I really enjoy how you are attempting to start an argument on a thread of this sort. It is my opinion that those schools I listed are underrated or overrated respectively - get over it. </p>
<p>It is my opinion as well that Northwestern and the University of Chicago are underrated. Being in the midwest, those two schools don’t always get the same attention among the northeast/east as other schools do mostly because of location. So, in that respect, I do find them a bit underrated in terms of region.</p>
<p>How surprising that you, as an Emory student, think that it’s underrated. No one said it isn’t a great school because it IS one of the best around, but I am entitled to my opinion. I just don’t think that it should be ranked after Cornell and Brown. Oh, by the way, there are no facts to prove whether it should be or shouldn’t be before you try to indicate otherwise. It is simply a general opinion I have. </p>
<p>In terms of ranking, Georgetown is about where it should be, but in regards to how the public sees the school, I do find it overrated in general. It is outstanding in what it is known for, but it is not the most well-rounded school albeit still great.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd has an actual engineering degree… half of its 750 students are engineers and they all get their general engineering degree. The whole school is science/math/engineering focused so there are research facilities. You have the OPTION of taking 6-10 classes at Pomona/CMC/Pitzer/Scripps solely for humanities requirements, which is actually a huge benefit considering they are very good humanities schools. Please get your facts straight before passing them on to other people.</p>
Northwestern and U of Chi are pretty well respected across the country among the educated. What does being in the Midwest have to do with it? Stanford’s on the West Coast and it is viewed as a top notch school everywhere in the country. If anything, Midwesterners greatly overrate their state schools. Residents of Minnesota think UMinn is an elite school, residents of Wisconsin think Wiscy is an elite school, residents of Indiana think UIndiana in an elite school, etc. etc.</p>
<p>I know they are well respected among the very educated, but in terms of the general population rather than the people who roam CC, region is key. Much of the northeast/east coast will not know a midwest school as well which is what I was referencing. Of course the brightest will always apply to UChicago/NU, but you can not tell me that being in the Midwest does not affect how well it is recognized by the general populace. I don’t know what is so difficult to grasp that I simply said that they are somewhat underrated in some parts of the country. </p>
<p>And to your statement about Stanford, California is a bit different than the Midwest. I don’t really see how you are comparing the two.</p>
<p>Overrated:
Miami of Ohio
Attending a regional state school when one was accepted to the state’s flagship
NYU!
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Underrated:
Kenyon
The mid-tier UC campuses (Davis, Santa Barbara & Irvine)
The bottom half of the Big Ten (Indiana, MSU, Purdue, Minnesota and Iowa)
Chicago (should be top 5)</p>
<p>Let me make a clearer list that conveys my thoughts</p>
<p>Overrated in CC:
HYPSM (This acronym is seriously starting to bug me. Seriously, I don’t understand this obsession to get to these places…)
Berkeley (unbelievably overrated for undergrad in these forums…) - -<br>
UChicago (Not as much overrated, but still…its not “better than Harvard” as I hear some posters post)
WUSTL (Seriously, this place has a kickass med school…that’s about all)</p>
<p>Neither overrated or underrated in CC:
Brown, Caltech</p>
<p>Underrated in CC
UPenn, Columbia, Duke, and Dartmouth (I don’t have to say why I think Duke and Dartmouth, which are apparently “party schools” among academia :rolleyes:, are underrated. Especially Duke. And Columbia gets hated on by HYP ■■■■■■ :mad: and people give UPenn a really hard time for ranking so high in the USNEWS. They even try to separate it from Wharton, claiming that Wharton should be a school on its own…how ridiculous.)
Northwestern, UMich, and Georgetown (I’ve seen these universities rank in the bottom/not even ranked in every “What are the top prestigious universities” threads in CC…just terrible)
All LACs (No one talks about these as often as research universities)</p>
<p>Actually, I would put UMich as overrated as well as underrated. I’ve never heard much good about UMich undergrad school, but I hear its graduate engineering, Ross, and law schools are AMAZING. I don’t understand why people don’t give UMich credit for that.
My ex-girlfriend went to Berkeley for undergrad and then to UMich law school. She found her grad experiences more academic and enjoyable.</p>
<p>Not sure how Michigan could be overrated. It’s not even in the top 25 at USNWR. Now schools like Emory and Rice, those are definitely overrated!</p>
<p>Actually, I would put UMich as overrated as well as underrated. I’ve never heard much good about UMich undergrad school, but I hear its graduate engineering, Ross, and law
schools are AMAZING.</p>
<p>The more you make your sweeping generalized comments thesaiyans666, the more ridiculous you sound. You’ve never heard much good about UMich as an, “undergrad school?” Perhaps you’re just not paying much attention.</p>
<p>rjkofnovi: Well…When I say I don’t hear much good about UMich undergrad school, it doesn’t mean I hear bad. I just don’t know much about it or I don’t really hear praises, etc. Whatever you want to call it. I think 100% of the people I’ve met who have gone to UMich have done their MS or PhD there…its just an opinion/observation. No need to be so defensive.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure a school with such great grad programs could naturally have a solid undergrad program. But I’m becoming more unconvinced the more belligerent UMich promotion I see on CC from people like you. You being unnaturally defensive right now is another factor.</p>