<p>uconn by far is the most underrated.</p>
<p>middlebury as well- since this is not supposed to be just an alma mater list- but gtown mainly...tee hee</p>
<p>Reed College
Harvey Mudd</p>
<p>UChicago by far (waitlisted there so its not a biased choice)</p>
<p>Southern schools like Emory, Swanee, and Davidson are often overlooked. I've seen a precipitous rise in the stature of Vanderbilt here in the past few years, so I'm not including it. On the other hand, I don't hear much about Midwestern schools outside of Northwestern and WashU on this board.</p>
<p>Um, I don't think any ivy or near-ivy is really underrated, when we're talking about universities. Move into the LAC range though, and you'll find a ton, and a personal favorite underrated (I never applied so it's not really biased):</p>
<p>St. Olaf</p>
<p>UChicago in terms of education/academics.</p>
<p>Umm...I started a thread like this a while ago, but ok...</p>
<p>UChicago, Michigan, Emory ... many more</p>
<p>i thought this thread referred to US News rankings in terms of underrated (not word of mouth and such) and thus said Stanford because I really don't think it's inferior to UPenn and Berkeley, because it really should be in the low teens...</p>
<p>If it weren't for the US News rankings, I don't think many people would even know about how great schools such as Vanderbilt, UChicago, Emory, Rice, etc are.</p>
<p>^^^^^ yoooooo, smokeylarue ^^^^
I TOTALLY AGREE</p>
<p>The reason you don't hear much about LAC is because they cater to a minority of the population. The average person would prefer to attend a university. LAC's and universities should be grouped seperately as they offer vastly different experiences.</p>
<p>UMich, UCLA, and UVA are all underrated just because they are public universities. Too many people seem to think it's UCB then everybody else, and I would venture to say that all of these schools are at least equal in most fields.</p>
<p>University of Southern California
University of Colorado
University of Washington
Emory
University of North Carolina
Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>University of Florida (not saying it's perfect, just underrated)</p>
<p>the "average person" smitter? is that why schools like williams and amherst reject so many valedictorians?</p>
<p>Bowling Green, Cincinatti, DePaul, and Loyola (MD) are all underrated as well!</p>