<p>bowling green
yeshiva
temple
depaul</p>
<p>University of Washington is on the way up; millions of dollars of gates/allen funding will do that. People just don't want to come all the way up here in the northwest.</p>
<p>UC Davis</p>
<p>Current rank: 14th among public universities (would be 11-12th range w/o a reporting error this year)</p>
<p>Reason for growth: large sum of private donations this year, which are important for the US News rankings; transition to D1 athletics: creates a ton of new money for UCD to further develop the athletic dept., conduct research, expand campus, etc. All other schools at the prestige level of UCD have been there w/ D1 athletics (UCI no. 10, UCSB no. 12, etc.) and UCD is just now gaining this revenue that the competition has had for years. UC Davis will be moving up into and through the top 10 very quickly.</p>
<p>Davidson-fantastic Southern LAC and Holy Cross-applications up 41% with great alumni network, UChicago-great academics(weak social life).</p>
<p>connecticut college- despite being ranked 36 by USNews, its the 25th most selective, and has awesome grad school placement rates.</p>
<p>Bob Jones U :rolleyes: A few of my HS teachers went there, and they came out <em>relatively</em> normal.</p>
<p>More seriously, I do think BYU is underrated. Most people don't think of it unless they're Mormon, but it's a good school.</p>
<p>Grinnell has got to be one of the most underrated schools ever. If it were on the east coast, people would think of it as on par with Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore.</p>
<p>George Mason</p>
<p>Berea, Earlham, Kalamazoo, and Occidental. Put them in the northeast, and they'd be overwhelmed.</p>
<p>(Berea already is one of the most selective schools in the country, and with a per capita endowment about the same as that of Williams.)</p>
<p>mini...So true about those schools if they were out in the N.E. Son is going to Kalamazoo this fall...we're very thankful for that Midwest location!</p>
<p>George Mason</p>
<p>SO UNPREDICTABLE.</p>
<p>bowdoin college</p>
<p>Yeshiva is far and away the MOST underrated school there is. It's a top-50 school, top notch med and law programs. Yet, no one has heard of it.</p>
<p>a lot of the lacs</p>
<p>Brown is a top notch school, but let's not get greedy, it's ivy league and it's top drawer. Now for the truly underated, alot of the lac's, where to start, let see, in the west......Pomona, Reed, pugit sound.......the midwest, wow, many, earlham, grinell, carleton, mccalister,. Oberlin, etc. The south, Davidson Davison, and Davidson, Guilford, new college, etc, The Northest, man too many to name.</p>
<p>I think Cornell takes alot of "there are better colleges out there" heat because of its staggering 21% acceptance rate. Too many people associate acceptance rate with quality of programs/stuent body/prestige. Stupid!</p>
<p>Brown should be up in the top 10 with Cornell, but i would agree that people tend to consider it the 'easy ivy' due to its grading system.</p>
<p>Case Western Reserve University and Oberlin College.
Some of the "lower-level" UC colleges also come to mind, like Davis and San Diego (only applies to the area E of the Mississippi)</p>
<p>Actually almost any top school without a big name like Duke or a plan to manipulate rankings (WUSTL) that is located outside the Northeast is underrated - schools like Davidson and other LAC's, Rice, Pomona, etc</p>
<p>I agree with American!!!! It has TOP NOTCH faculty, but it loses some of its top students because it's a backup to the ivies and especially Georgetown!!</p>
<p>Also, UGA (University of Georgia) is underrated! It gets alot of students who get turned down by UVa or UNC, but are still smart. It's on its way up!</p>
<p>I can't believe no one else has mentioned yeshiva</p>