<p>UMass Amherst: The flagship and by far the best of Massachusett’s public system.
UMass Dartmouth: Safety for UMass Amherst kids, most who don’t get in go here.
UMass Lowell: Due to location, generally not a well regarded school. However has a very good engineering program that may even be better than Amherst’s.
UMass Boston: Generally regarded as the worst UMass, commuter school.
The “State” Schools: Examples are Bridgewater, Fitchburg, MCLA, etc. Ok schools but generally safeties for those that didn’t get into the UMass’s (besides Boston). Some are commuter schools.
Mass Maritime: The Maritime Academy of the public system.</p>
<p>University of Texas at Austin - this is the biggest school, and it’s reputation is just that it “is” Austin. Quirky, artsy, sophisticated, funny, young, liberal, and as Texan as can be. Kids that get in are smart, but they also love to party.</p>
<p>Texas A&M at College Station - also equally large as UT, but far more conservative, and equally as “Texan.” A&M represents the more traditional side of Texas, and the families who send their kids have been doing so for at least 100 years. A&M is best known for its revered traditions.</p>
<p>Rice University - this is the small highly prestigious university in Houston. Whenever someone brings up the Ivies, someone is bound to think, yeah well we’ve got Rice, take that! Rice students’ reputation is extremely smart and kind of nerdy, but they’ll be ruling the planet some day.</p>
<p>Baylor - it’s very competitive academically, and students are very honest, disciplined, and Christian. In fact these students are the most nauseating in the world because they are practically morally pure. Half of the girls are still virgins, and most of the dudes are. The most popular major for girls is probably finding a suitable husband.</p>
<p>Southern Methodist Univesity - SMU is more socially elite than it is academically elite. It is of course academically elite, but much more socially elite. Dallas oil barons send their kids here and everyone dresses in Armani or Gucci from nearby Northpark and drives a Ferrari, or god forbid, a BMW.</p>
<p>Texas Christian University - this is the fun private school. TCU is a lot like A&M in that it has many long-lasting Texas traditions, but out of all of the top schools in Texas, TCU students are the most laid-back. </p>
<p>Texas Tech - they’re mostly known for their rude, obnoxious, and insane fans. Any time Tech is playing at your school - run! These fans are so obnoxiously shtty and out of control that you never know what will happen. The school itself isn’t really elite in Texas, but it probably compares easily to a smaller states’ flagship, maybe like Tennessee or LSU.</p>
<p>UTEP - should just rename itself the University of Mexico at El Paso.</p>
<p>Southwestern University - these kids are really smart but something about them suggests that it’s a really good thing they’ll be at a suburban school with like 4,000 students rather than at a school in the heart of Austin with 50,000 other students. </p>
<p>University of Houston/University of North Texas - these are the kids that could not get into SMU, Rice or UT but still wanted to stay close to home. Most of them live at home and commute, but those that live on campus often never sleep and just go from one party to the next, even on say…a Tuesday night.</p>
<p>All of the others, i.e…Texas State, A&M-Commerce, A&M-Kingsville, Texas Southern, Prairie View A&M, Midwestern State, UT-Tyler, UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, UT-Brownsville, and so on… these are all surprisingly big schools, many with around 20,000 students, but they’re all the ones that couldn’t get into any better school. These kids are mostly either poor, average students who want to get cheap credits out of the way before they transfer, gang members that are going to school to satisfy some rehab program, or just incredibly idiotic white people who are so stupid that you hope they don’t reproduce.</p>
<p>*Disclaimer- these are just generalizations from people around where I live and go to school</p>
<p>Emory: Probably our trophy school, excellent place to go if you’re dreaming of medical school
UGA: Party, football, party, football. People always promising its academics and such are getting better, and it is supposed to be hard to get into.
GA Tech: UGA’s rival, they are Capulet/Montague status… Very tough classes, hard to maintain HOPE
Mercer: Good academics, popular among the parents
Oglethorpe: Very tiny but looks like a castle! Gorgeous! As expected with the size, I don’t think a wide variety is offered.
Berry: Very good, and pretty, liberal arts. Biggest campus in the universe, man
Kennesaw: Seems like it would be a calmer, more liberal UGA.
GA State: “I want to get out of my small town, I’m going to go to the middle of the city to get away from it all! Oh no, a bunch of people from my high school are here!”<br>
West GA and West Central Tech: Have classes that some high schools can offer and get college credits there. Often people that go here want to quickly get college done with and not waste too much money so they can go ahead and start their careers
GCSU: Kind of out nowhere, good music program I think?
Columbus State: Many of the kids in my school’s band and drama departments apply there
LaGrange College: Hear it’s pretty good, just not well known because of where it is.
SCAD: Great art school, but has a few accrediting loopholes that people are unsure about right now. Also has an impressive list of where it’s graduates are, and those aren’t just lucky exceptions.
Valdosta State: Gotta admit, nobody knows much about it at all here since it’s the farthest away. Anyone on here?</p>
<p>…well. I guess that’s thorough haha</p>
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<p>I dont know where in PA you live, but it’s definitely PSU over Pitt. The funny thing is that sooooooooo many Temple kids get into Penn State, but have no interest in being in State College. The kids from my HS who went to Penn State were mainly kids who knew how to game the system–do reasonably well on the SATs/ACTs and take mostly college prep courses with a few honors classes and very rarely AP classes and get a 4.0</p>
<p>I guess people are doing private schools too, I’ll take a shot at them for Mass.</p>
<p>WPI: Underrated engineering school, however stereotypically very nerdy and bad M/F ratio.</p>
<p>Holy Cross: Very good Catholic school. Don’t know much else about it.</p>
<p>Clark: Ok school known for its philosophy program.</p>
<p>BC: Very good Jesuit school with huge sports programs and a big alumni following around here.</p>
<p>BU: Good school that I personally think is a little overrated, in the middle of the city with no real campus. Great communications and business programs.</p>
<p>Northeastern: The Co-op 5 year school with a more pre-professional emphasis than academia. However I think its rising and I prefer this style more than typical liberal arts. Good Criminal Law and Business programs, above average Engineering.</p>
<p>MIT: Probably the best engineering school in the nation, also extremely good in other disciplines. Second to Harvard in MA.</p>
<p>Harvard: Harvard.</p>
<p>Brandeis: A very good private school with an extremely quirky student body. Also notable is its huge Jewish population.</p>
<p>Bentley: Business school that is a little more laid back than Babson. Very well-regarded in Northeast.</p>
<p>Babson: Business boot camp, similar reputation to Bentley.</p>
<p>Suffolk: Good law school from what I hear, subpar undergrad program in the middle of the city. Less of a campus than BU.</p>
<p>Endicott, Assumption, Lasall, Curry, etc.- The no-name schools that might be alright but are safeties for almost everyone.</p>
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<p>That may be the case for your high school and the students you know at Temple. I’m just giving the general perception of the schools within my own community (South Central PA). The students I know this year going to Pitt generally have higher SAT scores and weighted GPAs than those of the kids going to PSU. I personally don’t know any student that chose Temple over Pitt or PSU. Again, that’s just my high school; I don’t think anything is definite.</p>
<p>The SAT and GPA ranges at these three schools also follows the order of Pitt > PSU > Temple.</p>
<p>UNC-awesome school, lots of kids who get into “better” schools choose it for financial reasons
Duke-best in the state for sure, but way too preppy for me. Durrrrr sportz.
NC State-generic state college. big, ok academics. engineering and design are strong.
Elon-people hype it up a lot. Kids I know who go there are dull but have parents who want to be able to say they send their kids to private school.
High Point-lol.
NC Central-I wonder if gang wars are an official extracurricular. Seriously, I have seen ridiculous fights on campus. Apparently an ok (relatively speaking) law program.
Wake-That school people forget about when they talk about NC schools. Its good.
ECU-stdzzzzzz
WCU-didn’t know it existed until I saw somebody in its network on facebook.</p>
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<p>Pretty much hits the nail on the head for all of them</p>
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<p>At least from kids in my area of SE PA, and many kids I’ve met at Temple from NE PA, many turned down PSU. Also, many kids who will be freshmen next year turned down PSU and better for Temple. The school continues to rise academically. What many people dont realize is that people at Temple arent there because they couldnt get into PSU or Pitt (of course there are enough that couldnt), but that all three schools have some similarities, but PSU and Temple are in complete opposite environments. Most people here have no desire to spend four years in the middle of nowhere PA. I know I didnt.</p>
<p>Those are great Karabee…pretty much same as what I said, but a lot more colorful since they weren’t posted on a site with a ton of word filters like this forum.</p>
<p>^ I had to laugh at Midwestern.</p>
<p>A good chunk of my family resides in and around Wichita Falls so they’re trying to convince me to go to Midwestern.</p>
<p>But, I really can’t stay in Wichita Falls longer than a week without going crazy. Heh.</p>
<p>Californians:
What’s the story with UCR? I’m curious as to how it came to its apparently sorry present state. Didn’t it start as the ag campus for the southern part of the state when UCLA got out of the ag school business, just as UCD started as the farm school for UCB in the northern part of the state? UCB & UCLA are good across the board, and all the other campuses except UCR are known for at least some depts. Is UCR good in any field of study? Is it a matter of where it’s located? It seems a shame that the UC system would let one of its campuses languish like that.</p>
<p>I didn’t realize Wichita Falls was the most statistically normal place in America. I think of it as very statistically sub-par, but that’s just me.</p>
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<p>Of all those schools listed, UT-Dallas really sticks out. Not a lot of people realize this but UTD has a relatively strong student body, boasting an average SAT score that is almost the exact same as UT-Austin.</p>
<p>So? Who gives a crap? It’s not even UT-Dallas. It should change its name to UT-Richardson because it’s in Richardson, and not Dallas.</p>
<p>Students in Texas don’t really take the SAT so I’m not sure if that’s entirely relevant, either. I’d be curious to see if the ACT scores are nearly identical, which I doubt. But even if they are…that just means that the UT-Richardson kids score very low on a different test…the one where they have to pick a good college. lol</p>
<p>The SAT scores are slightly higher.</p>
<p>1156/1600 equiv. from ACTs
1240/1600 from SATs</p>
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<p>It’s decent across the board. Not bad but not great either. It’s definitely better than fledgling UCM.</p>
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<p>Students in Texas do take the SATs. In the western part, the ACT is dominant, but the rest is SAT dominant.</p>
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<p>Wait, what?!?!??! We’re paying Butch more than Roy?
If it ever gets to this point, I’d much rather keep Roy than Butch (Although I’d like to keep both, if possible).</p>
<p>It’s gonna be a good season come September! We’re going to be in the hunt for an ACC championship…UNC is definitely an up and coming football team.</p>
<p>The going rate for a Football coach is higher than that of a basketball coach. If there were a chance Williams would leave UNC I’m sure they’d up his salary in a heartbeat.</p>