<p>Make a list of colleges who are unappreciated. Do not criticize mine, as everybody does in all the other threads. Make a list of your own. </p>
<p>LACs</p>
<p>Davidson College Wildcats
Haverford College Fords
Claremont McKenna College Stags
Vassar College Brewers
Grinnell College Pioneers
Oberlin College Yeomen
Macalester College Fighting Scots
Colorado College Tigers
Kenyon College Lords and Ladies</p>
<p>Universities </p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis Bears
Rice University Owls
Emory University Eagles
Wake Forest University Demon Deacons
Clemson University Tigers
Syracuse University Orange
University of Southern California Trojans
University of Washington Huskies
University of Wisconsin Badgers </p>
<p>I would like to add to the university list </p>
<p>University of Chicago Maroons
Northwestern University Wildcats
Johns Hopkins University Blue Jays
University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Vanderbilt University Commodores
Carnegie Mellon University Tartans
University of Virgina Cavilers</p>
<p>IMO the nearly all the Cal States are under-appreciated. They provide a solid education at an affordable price to many thousands of students who go on to grad and professional schools and/or successful careers.</p>
<p>I don't think most of country day's universities are unappreciated, they're all pretty well known. I would say, for universities:</p>
<p>University of Washington - agree w/ country day on this one
Ohio State, Michigan State, Minnesota - overlooked big ten schools because they mostly attract in-state students, and MSU is overshadowed by UMich
The SUNYs - NOBODY has heard of them out of state generally (no sports teams is a part of it) but there are some great public schools in the system.
Agree with the CSUs because they're overshadowed by the UCs
James Madison University - A very good school in VA that's affordable for OOS as well as VA students, but it's in the regional "Masters Universities" category</p>
<p>Connecticut College - The youngest (est. 1911) and most frequently overlooked member of the NESCAC (maybe b/c it doesn't have football?); plus, it has an unfortunate ubiquitous name, much like Colorado College.</p>
<p>And I forget about Macalester often myself, even living in the Twin Cities!</p>
<p>However huskem55 Vassar is not mentioned that often on the boards or in any topic of conversation. It doesn't usually come to mind for most people right away, which is what usually happens to a lot of the colleges I posted.</p>
<p>In general, a lot of schools that don't sponsor Div. I athletics are under-recognized. Colleges have been my life for the past 40 years or so, but until I started frequenting CC I'd never heard of Chapman and the U. of Scranton, two schools with above-average selectivity in which I see there's a significant amount of interest.</p>
<p>I think there is a big difference between unappreciated-on-CC and unappreciated-in-real-life. I have found Vanderbilt University to be generally under-appreciated on this forum, but not in the real world.</p>
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<p>The MOST underappreciated schools are ALL those schools in EVERY category: national,LAC, regional masters and baccalaureate schools, who do their JOBS every day of educating MILLIONS of Americans but are sneered at, spit upon, frowned at and denigrated by the busloads of elitists (many of whom are here on CC) who overpromote and overemphasize the elite top schools, as well as USNWR and others who "rank them" according to "peer group" ratings and other such nonsense, instead of the REAL quality of education they provide to their student body, whether their students are in the top 10% or bottom 25%.</p>
<p>My message: Focus on the JOB THEY DO IN EDUCATING THEIR STUDENTS, changing lives and helping kids transform into productive citizens and adults.</p>
<p>As far as Price v. Educational experience goes, I would like to submit that the SUNY would be overlooked. There are some very good schools in that system.</p>
<p>University of British Columbia is the third best Canadian university and doesn't even have a board on this web site, while McGill, which is better in some departments than UBC, does. So on a serious note, it is an underrated college in America.</p>
<p>Harvard... I feel like nobody's even heard of it!
But nobody I know has heard of Carleton, which is a great school, so I guess that also qualifies it as under appreciated.
I agree that the SUNY system qualifies, too.</p>