<p>lol. you are just way, way too sensitive here. And I think you know exactly why as well. Give people reasons and facts, don't just get all flustered and emotional. All you do is keep going back to the IR program, which I conceded in my original question to you. I accepted that beforehand. I don't accept that Tufts is internationally renowned, as you claim, for all of the other programs you are now throwing into the mix.</p>
<p>"And I think you know exactly why as well"</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>OVERRATED: Harvard
UNDERRATED: Tufts</p>
<p>Overrated: Harvard, Washington U in St. Louis, Boston University, NYU</p>
<p>Underrated: Tufts, Michigan, Cornell, Chicago, Rochester, RPI..</p>
<p>yawn another person with BU...Lemme guess? Price?</p>
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<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>People, peer evaluation measures what it measures fairly accurately, but I think it doesn't quite measure the right thing and I don't think they're asking the right people, or enough of the right people. More top admissions people from more top (especially top 50 to top 100)graduate and professional programs in many different fields, especially law, med, and the main graduate fields. Maybe even business recruiters would help.</p>
<p>How can anyone possibly say Harvard is overrated? It's called HYP for a reason. </p>
<p>I think the concept of ranking individual undergrad 'programs' is somewhat ridiculous and meaningless. What are these rankings based on? UMich in the top 10 in a 100 disciplines? The vast majority of people major in one of ~ 25 subjects. What are these extra 75 esoteric disciplines? Additionally, people change majors frequently or end up going into something much different than their major, so it seems to me that employers and grad schools should be way more concerned with the quality of the students they are getting as opposed to they were from UMIch in an obscure dicipline where it ranked #3 and there are nine total schools that have the major. </p>
<p>The example above of Rice vs UWisc students applying to Harvard Law School to me is a good one. I don't know if the info is available, but I would have to imagine that more UWisc students apply to HLS than those from Rice.</p>
<p>Underrates college is University of California at Berkeley.Harvard is said to be slightly overrated but is the most prestegious in the country and internationally so it would give excellent job opportunity.</p>
<p>sorry, but, CMU is WAAAY overrated... it's not as great and people think. Socially, there is little to no social life. Academically, it's not as challenging as you would think, in some areas of academia. but everything is what you make it, and it's a good education if you're interested in Computer Science, Business, and the Sciences. Beyond that, the Humanities program is still too new to be recognized, but it provides some good growth to students who are interested in a variety of things.</p>
<p>oh, and this isn't a personal attack board. get a damn life and start posting something that everyone can use. if you can't be constructive or informative, don't say it here. that's what PM is for.</p>
<p>My list comes from my little Texas/Louisiana bubble...because frankly I don't care about other schools.</p>
<p>Overrated: UT Austin, Texas A&M, Tulane, LSU (all great schools, but whoop-de-do)</p>
<p>Underrated: Louisiana Tech, UT Dallas, Centenary</p>
<p>Just my opinion.</p>
<p>Under-Whitman ,Univ of Puget Sound, Wyoming, Lehigh, Univ. Wash, UBC, univ. of Portland, South Dakota</p>
<p>i am sorry--those schools aren't under-rated</p>
<p>they aren't really 'good' or elite schools</p>
<p>south dakota? wow.</p>
<p>Actually South Dakota has a interesting campus and some pretty good programs.</p>
<p>You just couldnt pay me to go there for college :)</p>
<p>Who are you referring to bball?</p>
<p>Bball, I'm not sure I agree with your above statement. Whitman College, for example, is seen as an academic powerhouse in the West. In addition, several of those schools would, in fact, be labeled as "good."</p>
<p>Overrated: Cornell, Emory, Tufts, NYU
Underrated: Upenn, Brown, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Vastly Overrated: Penn, Duke, WUSTL
Somewhat Overrated: Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame
Somewhat Underrated: Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Chicago
Vastly Underrated: Rice, Georgetown</p>