<p>Georgetown is sooooooooooo underrated that it kills me sometimes :-(</p>
<p>under--Rice
over--Cornell, UMich, Cal, HYP</p>
<p>Pomona isn't so much underrated as it is the best kept secret in undergraduate education</p>
<p>overrated: swarthmore
underrated: haverford</p>
<p>(with respect to one another; i'm not saying swat is overrated in general)</p>
<p>underrated: University of Rochester
overrated: NYU</p>
<p>Underrated: Public Flagship Universities!</p>
<p>Overrated: As for undergraduate, UCBerkeley and Johns Hopkins. Their graduate and professional schools are superb, but not undergrad.</p>
<p>Underrated: Brown, NYU, Rice</p>
<p>underrated
Rice
Tufts
W&M
Wake Forest</p>
<p>brassmonkey</p>
<p>Too true. Now if only I could get in!</p>
<p>eddy, Amherst, Williams, and Wesleyan may have higher acceptance rates than those of HYP, but AWW definitely have less applicants, and thus, a smaller number of accepted students. So, you can't really tell. Just know that the kids applying to AWW are just as academically strong as those applying to HYP. In fact, there's sometimes (if not often) an overlap between applicants to "The Little Three" and applicants to "The Big Three".</p>
<p>Overrated: WUSTL, NYU, USC, U Virginia </p>
<p>Underrated: U Washington, UT Austin, NC State</p>
<p>Overrated: WUSLT, Georgetown, NYU</p>
<p>Underrated: Most community colleges, St Vincent (Latrobe, PA), Hillsdale</p>
<p>Showtunesguy,
The little ivies are usually categorized as AWS; Amherst, Williams and Swarthmore (no disrespect to Wes)</p>
<p>overated: u of florida, u of texas, u of washington
underated: ohio state, clemson, u of colorado - boulder</p>
<p>Just curious, to the posters who said that George Washington is overrated, why? I've hardly heard of it until recently. </p>
<p>As to the debate about the Little Ivies. Who cares? It's just a title. You can't deny that while Wesleyan isn't normally considered in the triplet, it has a program comparable to most if not all colleges across the globe.</p>
<p>overrated: NYU, Georgetown, Villanova</p>
<p>underrated: Most LACs, UChicago, Wake Forest, WUSTL,</p>
<p>^^From the Amherst website:
<a href="http://www.amherst.edu/sports/quickfacts/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.amherst.edu/sports/quickfacts/index.html</a>
It's no big deal. The only people who care are people who attend Williams, Wesleyan and Amherst, and mainly the athletes.</p>
<p>I always have heard of the Potted Ivy being A W W. No S</p>
<p>Just curious, why do a lot of people put WashU as overrated? Besides its ranking in USNWR, I don't really hear about it as much as the other top tier schools.</p>