<p>Which schools do you think are overrated? underrated? (For consistency, my suggestion is to use USNWR rankings and public perception). This is just for entertainment and general information, who knows someone may find a great match on this thread...</p>
<p>Underrated: UChicago, UCBerkeley
Overrated: WUSTL, Northwestern, Penn</p>
<p>I don't want this thread to be a flaming contest, try to keep it civil.</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>Underrated: USC, Georgetown (in US News at least) the top publics (espec. Berkeley, UCLA, and UMich).
Overrated: Notre Dame</p>
<p>Overrated: The University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, the University of Notre Dame, Rice University, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis.</p>
<p>Underrated: The University of Michigan, the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Georgetown University, and The University of California- Los Angeles.</p>
<p>overrrated: WUSTL without a doubt, Emory University, Notre Dame, Wake Forest</p>
<p>underrrated: UMichigan, Cornell, U of Chicago, Cal Berkeley</p>
<p>how is Rice overrated just curious, that is ONE PHENOMENAL SCHOOL!</p>
<p>underrated: NYU, Rice, Oberlin, Davidson, Grinnell, UC Berkeley
overrated: Penn, Columbia, UVA, James Madison, Penn state (at least where I come from)</p>
<p>I didn't mean to type Rice. I meant to type Emory instead. I was thinking about Rice when I wrote it. Sorry about that.</p>
<p>lol--this board is so touchy.</p>
<p>overrated: UCBERKELEY</p>
<p>underrated: University of illinois and University of Virginia</p>
<p>overated: university of pennsylvania
underrated: northeastern university</p>
<p>overrated: WUSTL, Penn, Harvard (it isn't like what everyone says)
underrated: UCLA, UCB, UCSD for sure, USC, Georgetown, Reed</p>
<p>The UCs are not overrated... they are full of good students, but the education they provide is all T.A.s and large lectures. </p>
<p>Northwestern is underrated, at least from my perspective, in public opinion ( I think US News gets it right).. out here in california, nobody has even heard of it. </p>
<p>Overrated in USNWR: Notre Dame, Cornell, WUSTL, Berkeley, Penn
Underrated: Georgetown, UCSC (should be low, but not that low)</p>
<p>On College Confidential:</p>
<p>Overrated: Smith College, University of Michigan, and University of California-Berkley.</p>
<p>Underrated: Notre Dame, Boston College, and Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>Overrated-Georgetown, ND, BC, Emory, WUSTL
Underrated-Indiana, Wisconsin, Texas, USC</p>
<p>Overrated: Vanderbilt
Underrated: UCSD</p>
<p>overrated: Ivies</p>
<p>underrated: UCs (especially UCLA and Cal)</p>
<p>i'm from cali, but the UCs are very good, regardless.</p>
<p>what does it mean underated and overated?</p>
<p>overrated: WUSTL, Notre Dame, Emory, Duke, Vanderbilt, Cornell
underrated: Rice, Berkeley</p>
<p>I'm only using US News here because "public perception" is too subjective.</p>
<p>Overrated: Wisconisin, Illinois, Penn State, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Yeshiva University, Rochester, Tulane, RPI, Case Western, Rutgers, Penn(deserves high ranking but not over Stanford Duke, and MIT)</p>
<p>Underrated: Georgetown, George Washington University, NYU, University of Georgia, University of Miami, Boston University, Florida State University,</p>
<p>overrated means that everyone thinks this school is great and has outstanding out of this world academics and student body. when actually, it isn't allt aht exceptional as you'd expect.</p>
<p>underrated means that you don't really respect the university/college. you don't exactly expect a great student body or a good education there. </p>
<p>that's why I think Ivies are overrated. you're basically paying for a name. UCs are great schools, it's just that they're public and they don't exactly have too much money. UCs are great research schools, Cal has discovered two elements. YOU DON'T SEE ANY STANFORDIUM!</p>