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<p>There is nothing remotely ‘diamond in the rough’ about Tufts.</p>

<p>“No one in the states cares about the fact that it is considered one of the best schools in the world.” What does that even mean?</p>

<p>“We live in America; the only rank we really care about is the USN rank.”</p>

<p>We shouldn’t care about the US News rankings, because they’re absolute garbage.</p>

<p>“Va. Tech- Where the farmers sent their kids until Michael Vick showed up. Now its rednecks AND football fans. Good school.”</p>

<p>Not really anymore. VA Tech might have a pretty redneck location, but they attract a lot of students from Northern Virginia, and the DC/Baltimore suburbs. Not to mention stereotypical rednecks certainly could not get into VA Tech.</p>

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<li><p>If you leave this forum, lots of people have no idea what Tufts is. That’s what I meant. Sorry if I wasn’t being clear. </p></li>
<li><p>Those international rankings have BU in the top 50 or something in the world. BU doesn’t crack top 50 in anyone’s book - and I’m talking about domestic schools. </p></li>
<li><p>We “shouldn’t” care about the USN rank, but we do. They may be garbage, but that is some attractive garbage. </p></li>
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<p>and VT wasn’t my comment, so I’ll leave that blank.</p>

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<p>I’m not sure if it’s disdain on your part, or what, but I went to BU, and I never heard anyone reference the international rankings. Even so, what makes them less valid than the US News trash?</p>

<p>Tufts still isn’t a ‘diamond in the rough’. If you said that to anyone there, they’d probably laugh.</p>

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<p>Ha, true that. UArk, OSU, OU offer in-state tuition for Texas students who make a 24 on the ACT, which is basically anyone who has a pulse. Ironically for OSU that is also the requirement for automatic admission, so essentially ALL Texas students get it. There is an additional scholarship for legacies, and virtually all OSU alums live in Texas.</p>

<p>I think it’s fair to lump these three together for purposes of “Texas schools” because the Texas students at these three schools are ALL identical to each other, very yuppie, yet friendly and laid back, and slightly cultured…and they all stand out compared to the in-state students at all of those schools which are different at all three, and where the schools get their identity. It seems like 1/3 do come from Texas, so it is a major “moderating” influence almost.</p>

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<p>Emory- An excellent school and very underrated in Georgia! Most Georgia residents apply to public schools and I don’t have any friends who are interested in Emory. It is a shame because it is a good school. It may seem more popular for out of state students. </p>

<p>Georgia Tech- The best public school in Georgia hands down. It is a must if you are going to become an engineer. A great price for in state students. It is very underrated because most counselors push UGA, not Georgia Tech. People who go there are mostly guys, but I know a girl who will be attending. It could be seen as a “nerdy” school, but that isn’t bad. It has a great campus too. </p>

<p>UGA- Very OVERRATED in the state of Georgia. People act like it is the Harvard of the South. It is known as a jock school, but it is getting harder to get in. I would say it is underrated out side of Georgia. It is the state’s flagship for sure. This is where most Georgia students want to go. It is the dream school. It has good academics, and I would apply but it wouldn’t be my first choice. It is great for people with the Hope Scholarship, a main reason a lot of people want to go. It is very big on the sports and greek life. It can be seen as a party school</p>

<p>Georgia College and State- The most underrated school in Georgia. I have never heard of it before I moved here. It is the states public liberal arts school. It is very good, but it is in Milledgeville. Teachers hardly recommend the school. You would get a great education. It is very unknown. I know some kids who are going to it. </p>

<p>I honestly can’t tell you much about the other schools. Georgia State, West Georgia, Kennesaw, and Georgia Southern are popular. The people who attend aren’t AP students by any means and usually took college prep courses. You would get a decent education. North Georgia is also a good school, but I don’t know much about it sadly.</p>

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<p>Ahhh Connecticut. Well, we have five state schools.</p>

<p>UCONN - Basically the place where everyone goes, or wants to go. The phrase “I’m going to UCONN” gets old after awhile. It’s a big school in the middle of nowhere with pretty good academics and is dominated by in-state Husky lovers. I refuse to apply there.</p>

<p>Western CT - Western gets a bad rep because its not really well known. It’s easy to get into, kinda a first come first serve deal. Western isn’t really known for anything except for having the “rednecks” of Connecticut, but personally, I thought it was nice.</p>

<p>Southern CT - In the same town as Yale, but obviously completely different. Southern is where everyone who wants to teach or party goes. Very very very easy to get into. Located in a slummy, nasty part of New Haven.</p>

<p>Eastern CT - Located in another slummy area! Eastern has a very pretty campus and is probably the only state school I’ll apply to.</p>

<p>Central CT - Ahh, the best for last. HA, kidding. If you love parties 24/7, go to Central. I hate Central.</p>

<p>Yeah, go Connecticut?</p>

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<p>Ohio…
I didn’t apply to to many in-state and I’m just posting some general knowledge/things i’ve heard from counselors, friends, etc. I’m from cincinnati area, I’ll be attending UD.</p>

<p>University of Cincinnati
terrible neighborhood, overall decent school. pretty good engineering, very well regarded arts department (DAAP- visual and CCM-performing) and one of the better med schools in OH, not exactly sure where it falls but in the top 40 (national). Campus isn’t very attractive.</p>

<p>Xavier University
good school, better neighborhood than UC. Only thing that comes to mind is basketball.</p>

<p>Miami University
In the middle of nowhere. Beautiful campus. LOTS of ‘preppy’ OOS students, generally thought of as a ‘white’ university. stereotypes: girls all wear pearl earrings and north face jackets, general lack of personality. boys either hockey nuts or business majors. --Main focus is on business school, very poor engineering, not a school for the sciences.</p>

<p>Case Western Reserve
Awesome school, terrible campus. right in the middle of frighteningly urban cleveland. Engineering focus, not a place for the humanities. Good but seemingly few decent scholarships.</p>

<p>Ohio University
Some think of it as a major party school, although I think it’s starting to become more granola-y and nerdy. athens is really in the middle of nowhere though.</p>

<p>Ohio State University
Big school. Parties, sports, good academics. Didn’t apply here but from what I hear it gives out good academic scholarships. Also good med school, top 30 national.</p>

<p>University of Dayton
listed as ‘suburban’ but it’s in what we call a bubble- downtown and urban life is not too far away. campus is nice, student neighborhood is pretty cool. Good engineering school, sciences, education, and apparently pretty competitive business. Decent law school.</p>

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<p>Sounds like UD too. Go Owls!</p>

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<p>I have nothing against BU. I just don’t see it on the same level as the other schools. It’s still a good school. I am sure you see it in a different light because you went there. Neither of us is going to win because you and I are very subjective about the issue.</p>

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<p>U of M-solid school, harder school to get into, solid party scene but def not tops in the state. campus is really big, almost too big, more of a research school then a teaching school if you know what I mean.</p>

<p>St.Cloud State-Fun school, where I’m going this fall, mediocore academics I mean I got in with a 1.9 and a 25 on the ACT. Def the top party school in the midwest other than madison. lots of kids from my town go there.</p>

<p>Mankato State-basically a worse version of St. Cloud, too spread out, minor city- aka you’ll get a minor if you go down there. fun i guess but basically a poor mans SCSU.
winona state- 7 to 1 girl/guy means you’ll get laid, academics are solid, party scene is basically non-existant.</p>

<p>Minnesota-Duluth- prob the best school in MN, has it all, solid academics, great party scene, basically academics rival the U and partying rivals St.Cloud, best of both worlds, great scenery and campus too. UMD stands for U must drink.</p>

<p>Crookston, Bemidji,Moorhead,Southwest State, etc- boring crappy farm town schools with little to offer in academics or social scene, id stay away if I was you.</p>

<p>St.Thomas-best private school, in the city, great parties, dorms arent great but they’ll due, best bet for private education.</p>

<p>St.Olaf, Carleton, MacAlister, Hamline- hippy-dippy Liberal privates with no night life, wouldn’t recommend.</p>

<p>Bethel, Northwestern, North Central- Christian Schools, solid academics, anybody can get in NW or NC.</p>

<p>St.Scholastica-solid private in duluth, small, nice area, go to UMD to drink.</p>

<p>CSB/SJU- st bens/st.johns, seperate girl/boy schools that are good academics, drink at Cloud.</p>

<p>Inver Hills, Century, Lake Superior College- Community Colleges, stay away if you want an education.</p>

<p>Dakota County Tech-solid tech with good linesmen program.</p>

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<p>Albion-rich kid school, no diversity, crazy expensive, preppy and right out of a jcrew catalogue.</p>

<p>Kalamazoo college- really small school, almost like highschool. great education, great study abroad program. not a lot of parties, but the kids that want the party experience at K usually just drive 10 minutes to Western and party there.</p>

<p>Western- HUGE party school, not great academics.</p>

<p>Central- right in the middle of hickville, “slacker central”</p>

<p>Eastern-all the same experiences of living in the ever famous Ann Arbor area, without having to go U of M.</p>

<p>Michigan-GREAT SCHOOL. reallly smart kids go there. really smart. lots of school spirit, great bussiness school. if your going into medicine however, they dont really give you a good head start after you graduate. in a great college town with alot of stoner history. known for having ugly girls though.</p>

<p>Michigan State- huge football and basketball program. great vet school. not great academics, the kids that go there are the ones who couldnt get into michigan.</p>

<p>Grand Valley-really nice dorms, in the middle of no where. thats about it.</p>

<p>Oakland-new school, not great academics, but a growing university.</p>

<p>Wayne State- in the middle of the D. not so safe. really good medical school. easy to get into.</p>

<p>Northern-really freaking cold.</p>

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<p>Nagboy92 ^^</p>

<p>Your post is hilarious…</p>

<p>…and very wrong.</p>

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<p>Judging by your inability to use your and you’re correctly, I’d say you fall into the category of people who couldn’t get into Michigan too.</p>

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<p>Why does anyone have nothing to say about the Ivy League Schools. I understand that academics are great, but what about the social aspects?</p>

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<p>Having lived away from home for so long (woo boarding school!) I’ll give the perceived reputations of obnoxious rich boarding school students. (Mine was the elite one in NJ that feeds to Princeton so we overvalued Princeton; talking with students from other boarding schools allowed me to sort of adjust for this.) Please keep in mind that while the rankings are true, the commentary is made with tongue firmly in cheek. This list isn’t comprehensive.</p>

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<li>Harvard. Valedictorians go there, better connections than you found in high school and pretty fun once you get in. Grade inflation, but you still learn a lot and if you’re social you can find ways to have fun too.</li>
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<p>=2. Stanford. The holy grail for those of us who want to sneer at the Harvard types for putting up with snow for four years while getting their great education/connections. BITE US!</p>

<p>=2. Yale. Kinda like Harvard. For my school, much more difficult to get into than the other two above. Great school; you must be happy. Some kids are down to earth while others are unbearable.</p>

<p>=4 Princeton. More social and conservative than the first two, it’s still in New Jersey. Princeton is beautiful, but really, really boring at night unless you’re blackout. Undergraduate teaching is phenomenal. What, you didn’t just have tea with Paul Krugman? How unfortunate. What’s that? Oh yes, I got a C. Grade deflation!</p>

<p>=4. Penn Wharton. For those who know for a fact that they want to do finance and are prepared to sell their soul to get in. No one likes these kids because they tend to be jerks. Should have been more chill and gone to Princeton!</p>

<p>What, you couldn’t get into any of these? You really suck. Just kidding. Kind of.</p>

<p>=6. Cornell. We really don’t distinguish between contract and endowed colleges. Hardest partiers, have the most fun on Saturdays; most serious Monday-Friday. For disciplined types who (hopefully) aren’t suicide risks.</p>

<p>=6. MIT. For those who really, really like math. People were impressed with the MIT admits, but they smelled really bad/hadn’t slept in weeks.</p>

<p>=6. Dartmouth. See Cornell, only more personal and more inebriated.</p>

<p>=6. Penn other colleges (not nursing). People were jerks to the nursing admits. Kind of unfair, but there it is.</p>

<p>=6. Columbia. For those who want to live in the city but don’t want to deal with the hipster kingdom otherwise known as NYU.</p>

<p>=6. Brown. The brilliant kids who don’t want to deal with trivial things like gen-ed or sobriety. Quirky, but could make your brain explode with hemp or with science.</p>

<p>CHASM of Death and Lack of Prestige (The horror!)</p>

<p>Acceptable but looked down on (also known as I’m too lazy to number):
Tufts. Someone said to me: “You aren’t Jewish.” That person was an ***-hat but still. People didn’t really like the school.
Georgetown (non-SFS).
NYU. For those who plan on transferring out to Columbia.
Michigan, UC Berkeley, USC: Safeties!
Amherst, Williams, other great LAC’s: for the quirky kids/the D-III athletes. Not unacceptable per se, but not as prestigious in a lot of people’s minds.
UNC/Duke/UVA: Somewhat eyebrow-raising, but vaults to equivalency with Stanford if on Morehead/Robertson/Jefferson scholarship. And, yes, my school produces a bunch of these kids. They (generally) aren’t bad people.
Washington and Lee: White and Loaded. Not that great but, hey, it’s going to be like school, man! But we can drink!</p>

<p>Unacceptable:
Your state’s flagship school (I mean, they should be your SAFETY but that doesn’t mean you go there!)
St. Andrew’s/Edinburgh
Vermont
Vanderbilt: “I mean I would party there, but classes?”
Notre Dame: “EWWW CATHOLICS”</p>

<p>The worst part of this is I bought into these wholeheartedly once upon a time. Live and learn. Please remember that these aren’t my opinions! Don’t shoot the messenger! </p>

<p>All quotes are as true as I can make them.</p>

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<p>i wanna see some north carolina please!</p>

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<p>NY from my long island high school’s perspective:</p>

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columbia - columbia hates my HS, so we only ever have one or 2 bother applying. barnard, however, likes the girls from my HS and we get a few acceptances each year, with maybe one or two deciding to attend. considered a great school</p>

<p>cornell <3 - being in the middle of no where seems to be the biggest complaint, but it’s one of my school’s favorites. because of the contract colleges, a good 20 people apply to ilr, humec, and cals and about half of that will actually go. most are accepted. we also have a few people apply to arts and sciences and then maybe 1/4 of them will go. not too many people apply to engineering, architecture, or the hotel school. considered a great school</p>

<p>vassar - recently gained popularity with some of the really liberal/gay (nothing against them, btw, for anyone reading this and thinking i mean that in a bad way) students. my good friend turned down yale for vassar, which i think may have helped it become a school to watch in my town. still only a few applicants, but probably because of its perceived artsy/“different” reputation. considered a great school.</p>

<p>skidmore - students who apply to other LACs apply here, which obviously makes sense. haven’t heard too much about it from classmates other than that people were applying. considered an alright to good school for the most part</p>

<p>colgate - middle of no where, so not too popular, but definitely at the top of some students’ lists. the ivy rejects usually end up here, but from what i’ve heard, they’re really happy. considered a really good school.</p>

<p>nyu - everyone in the theater crowd applies here, so usually at least 30ish. many will get in and then go on to be music/drama/artsy majors here. most people who aren’t in theater don’t apply unless they really want to be in NYC. considered a good, but very overrated school</p>

<p>the new school/FIT - the hipsters who want to go into fashion go here. usually you can tell who will end up at these schools. not bad, but not really on anyone’s radar if they’re not going to be designing clothes or in the fashion industry</p>

<p>i know there are tons more privates, but on to publics:</p>

<p>geneseo - the gem of the sunys. valued more than binghamton, though most other NYers would disagree. a few cornell acceptees end up here.</p>

<p>binghamton - everyone and their mothers applies here, meaning, (no joke) at least half of the senior class. half of them will get in and then half of those will decide to go. binghamton is long island.</p>

<p>stony brook - safety for most applicants, but there are math/engineering/science majors who make it their top choice. commuter school and convenient for those accepted, since it’s less than an hour’s drive from our town. the honors college gets a lot of applicants from my HS from the math/science/engineering types. </p>

<p>buffalo - recently gained a lot of popularity, probably because people who expected to get into binghamton got rejected and ended up here. lots of students are happy and many choose to stay to do grad work here</p>

<p>albany - party school unless you’re going to major in criminal justice. mostly kids who want to be drunk/high all the time apply here</p>

<p>oswego - only the really JAP-y students from my HS go here. not hard to get into, usually considered a safety</p>

<p>plattsburgh/cortland/oneonta/cobleskill - you only go here if you’re half-■■■■■■■■. all are considered safeties by people aiming for bing/geneseo</p>

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<p>MassBay Community College - Hallelujah, and We Shall Reign Forever & Ever! </p>

<p>what do you mean with this?? just wondering…</p>

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<p>University of Oklahoma - most well-known school in the state…Definitely flagship school for the state. Typical large, Midwestern, Public, Flagship…Lot’s of Texas students. One of only a handful of Law Schools in the state. Highest ranked in the state by U.S. News and World Report. Pretty nice town - urban and close to OKC. Too football focused.</p>

<p>Oklahoma State University - recognition is on the way up. INSANE focus on Agriculture. Stillwater is in the middle of nowhere, essentially. Campus isn’t that beautiful. Doesn’t feel nearly as collegiate or…honestly, fancy…as OU. Or even many of the smaller schools in the state. Again, plenty of Texans.</p>

<p>University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma - seriously underrated. Most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s the state’s Public Liberal Arts School. Amazing academics, AMAZING soccer program, etc. Pretty good liberal education for a great price. No graduate studies, lot’s of students move on to OU (under 30 minutes away). Kind of isolated feeling, but only 40 minutes from OKC. Under 1000 students. </p>

<p>Regional University System of Oklahoma Schools (RUSO):
Southeastern Oklahoma State University - middle of nowhere, good value, great aviation program…Most students from my school end up here.</p>

<p>East Central University - not such a nice campus, good scholarships.</p>

<p>Northeastern State University - beautiful campus and region, okay school.</p>

<p>I don’t know much about most of the other RUSO schools…Southwestern is alright. Panhandle sucks. Know virtually nothing about UTulsa, OCCC, TCC, Oral Roberts, Cameron, Rogers State, or any of the other private/unheard of publics around the state…</p>

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<p>UMass Amherst- Everyone applies, flagship state school, but is known for wild partying. There’s a reason it’s called “Zoo-Mass”</p>

<p>UMass Lowell- Eww. Who’d ever want to go to school in Lowell.</p>