<p>I know you guys will look at me like I’m crazy but here goes…</p>
<p>In the case of the Ivies, Brown and Cornell aren’t as liked as HYP.</p>
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<p>This. Thank God someone mentioned UCSB…</p>
<p>^ Cooper Union is nationally recognized, but it’s really a local school.</p>
<p>ummm… I go to Allegheny, and I had applied to each of these schools. NOBODY is paying $40,000 to go to these schools. I received $20,000 in financial aid from Allegheny for academics alone, not even counting federal aid. Many people received $10,000-$20,000 in aid. I am paying thousands less than my friends at Pitt or Penn State, where the tuition is $21,000 to $25,000, but the schools only give $500 aid. I received similar financial aid packages from Gannon, Mercyhurst, and Westminster.</p>
<p>People in academia do (and employers should) know of Cooper Union and Olin, but outside of that, they’re both more or less unknown. I hadn’t heard of either until I started coming on here.</p>
<p>UoA-- Tucson sucks.</p>
<p>Yeah, I mean I’ve heard of Cooper Union and Olin and I know they’re great schools, but I only knew that through seeing them name-dropped on here.</p>
<p>But yes, the kind of employers that students from both schools would apply to more than likely have heard of them.</p>
<p>In Oklahoma, it is definitely University of Tulsa. Tulsa is a good school, but in my area I never hear anybody talk about it because they’re all going to Oklahoma or OK State or one of the smaller schools. The only time I hear anyone talk about it is when they mention that 2 kids from my school play football there.</p>
<p>And I will agree with you on Cooper Union.</p>
<p>UT Austin is way underrated in the Northwest and Northeast.</p>
<p>Another one I just thought of.
Oklahoma City University. It’s actually a really academic-oriented school, and it has excellent performing arts, but people barely even know about it in my area. I think I know 2 people that are considering that school.</p>
<p>Clemson is definitely underrated in the Northeast and outside of the Southeast. Northeastern is underrated outside of the Northeast.</p>
<p>@xcell</p>
<p>lmao so your saying african americans along with hispanics and internationals are dumb? UH will be the next tier 1 in Texas, mark my words… </p>
<p>UTs baseball team lost to UH…Lol</p>
<p>and 13% AA’s isnt a lot at all. UT needs to get more diverse, almost no diversity at all. same with SMU, only about 4-5% AA’s </p>
<p>UT austin is not underrated but if you want to work in the north/ dont go to UT…that would just be stupid</p>
<p>^ UH will never be tier 1. Sorry. It’s just the truth. And baseball has nothing to do with academics…</p>
<p>I feel like if you’re going to say X school is underrated/overrated, you should provide some context for your assessment.</p>
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<p>For instance, I live in D/FW and UT is not underrated here, but in Nashville, where I go to school, UT is underrated.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. I read all over these threads people who say they aren’t as good as what’s generally accepted, and that is 100% false.</p>
<p>Nice one Buddy. Completely impartial judge of school quality.</p>
<p>I always regarded Cooper Union as being a good institution. Not to mention the free tuition</p>
<p>University of Rochester! It’s in NY and is prestigious yet some people don’t even know its a private institution with amazing research.</p>
<p>well i mean if you want to live in Tennessee, UT is better(bright orange)</p>
<p>UH will be tier one in the next few years…</p>
<p>all tier 1 means is that the school is a research institution, which has nothing to do with majority of the students that attend the schools.</p>
<p>the only reason UT has 70% of the top 10 kids applying, is because they have a very well known Football Team… not because of the academics…</p>
<p>this may sound stupid, but if a school has a good sports program/ the school is elevated to another status… </p>
<p>without good sports programs UT would lose a lot of popularity…</p>
<p>back to what i was saying though, UH will be tier 1/ just watch and see</p>
<p>^pierrechn, your point that people go to UT not because of the academics is stupid. Why don’t more top 10% students go to Oklahoma then? Because Oklahoma isn’t as good for academics as Texas.</p>