<p>@cmarmon, “too many Asians on CC hyping HYPSM”?? I suppose you can identify one’s ethnicity through anonymous posts on a public forum?</p>
<p>Overrated - Brown, Amherst (open curriculum schools), HYP (too much competition, not the best undergrad education)</p>
<p>Underrated - Williams, Bowdoin, Carleton, Haverford</p>
<p>@calvin: yes, Asians tend to be label-obsessed. In my experience it is true and may be a cultural thing. They look for crude heuristics for college quality (HYPSM) and their discussions tend to overly focus on this. And many many HYPS rejects end up at Penn. And yes, they do actively populate CC.</p>
<p>Underrated: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth. MIT and Penn; Top 5 LACs; the Public Ivies (if attended as an in-state student).</p>
<p>Overrated: Most other schools one has to pay over $50,000 a year to attend, notables include BU, GWU, USC and BC.</p>
<p>Overrated: NYU and BU
Underrated: Top 20 LACs, Duke, Emory, UVA, Uchic and Northwestern</p>
<p>Overrated: Georgetown
Underrated: Rutgers</p>
<p>Underrated: Grinnell College</p>
<p>Grinnell is considered a good school. Its location hurts its reputation.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t consider Rutgers underated, though its reputaiton is aweful so it wouldn’t be hard to imagine it is better than the horrible reputation it has. </p>
<p>Georgetown is not overrated. It is probably ranked right where it should be.</p>
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I declare war on you, sir.</p>
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<p>Overrated: Brown, Notre Dame, all the UCs
Underrated: Cornell, WashU, JHU</p>
<p>Informative, your comment on rutgers is very confusing. Rutgers is one of the top schools for business and the sciences. However rutgers is stuck with the same view that people have of new jersey, and rutgers is seen as a party school. In general rutgers is one of the countries top universities.</p>
<p>Isn’t Rutgers the best university for philosophy? That’s really all I’ve heard about it.</p>
<p>That is also true.</p>
<p>Joyce Slayton Mitchell, one the nation’s most experienced higher education counselors, wrote a book entitled “8 First Choices: An Expert’s Strategies for Getting into College.” She states that if she was counseling Wall Street parents, the following advice would be given:</p>
<p>“if colleges were stocks, I’d advise you to sell overvalued Duke and Georgetown, buy undervalued Brandeis, Chicago, and the sister colleges; hold Swarthmore, Harvard and Bowdoin. Sell Amherst and Williams and buy Macalester.”</p>
<p>It’s wise advice. I would likely buy Bowdoin and hold Williams, however.</p>
<p>Overrated: Any school that is frequently mentioned on this website</p>
<p>I graduated from Northwestern and I would say that it is in fact very overrated.</p>
<p>I would argue that the University of Oregon is very much an underrated institution. USNWR ranks us 111th, but since we are an undergraduate-driven university, our lack of grad school prestige causes people to dismiss us. I was accepted to many higher-ranked schools such as UCs, but I feel the education I’m earning is at least equal to higher-ranked public schools often revered on this forum.</p>
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<p>They’re #2. The #3 princeton is like ~15 miles away from it, so they might share/trade faculty. (UCLA for example has very prestigious Philosohy of Language professors; USC also has very prestigious Philosophy of Language professors. I don’t think this is a coincidence lol)</p>
<p>Overrated: Brown and NYU</p>
<p>Over: HP, Duke, ND
Under: Rice, UMDCP, Cornell, UPenn</p>
<p>all opinions besides mine are terrible (lol)</p>