<p>Papertank, Baylor is Baptist.</p>
<p>New York
somewhat in order by how I would rank them</p>
<p>Public:
Binghamton- top SUNY university, especially good in sciences, not such a great campus</p>
<p>Geneseo- top SUNY LAC, maybe a tad more selective than Bing, great atmosphere, most people who go here really love it</p>
<p>Buffalo- Good for pre-med or pre-law, I personally wouldnât like the split campus (I live 5 mins from campus)</p>
<p>Stony Brook- About equal to Buffalo, big campus, an hour from NYC, students from my hometown go here if they want to get as far away as possible while staying in state</p>
<p>ESF- Great school if ESF is really what you want to major in, shares campus with Syracuse so students can attend all the parties, games, etc while paying in-state tuition</p>
<p>Albany- Party school, not great atmosphere, know a lot of athletes who go here</p>
<p>Cortland- Known as the happiest SUNY, good D3 sports, good parties</p>
<p>too many more to list</p>
<p>Private:
Columbia- Obviously a great school, Ivy league, pretty campus in the city</p>
<p>Cornell- Another Ivy, not as prestigious as Columbia, enormous campus yet very pretty (gorges, hills, etc) has a broad base of majors</p>
<p>West Point- Very, very selective and quite rigorous, maybe even more prestigious than many of the ivyâs, great school if the military is your interest, will set you up with connections for life</p>
<p>Vassar- Top private LAC in the state, beautiful campus, extremely selective</p>
<p>Hamilton- another selective LAC, strong science and writing programs, known for great professors</p>
<p>Colgate- LAC, great campus, lots of school pride and happy students, somewhat known for D1 athletics not often found at such a small school</p>
<p>NYU- great urban environment, good for theater and other similar majors, prestigious school</p>
<p>University of Rochester- good LAC, pretty campus, great atmosphere but kind of a dead town overall</p>
<p>Union- not too well known, lots of athletes, not such a great town</p>
<p>Yeshiva- NYC school for jews, kinda unknown</p>
<p>Skidmore- Good LAC, great dorms, kinda a stoner school</p>
<p>RPI- great school for engineer majors, not great town but good location</p>
<p>Bard- another stoner school</p>
<p>Fordham- LAC in the Bronx, pretty good school</p>
<p>Syracuse- Jock school with a great communications major</p>
<p>St. Lawrence- pretty setting, good school</p>
<p>Hobart and William Smith- Small LAC, kinda secluded, nice campus</p>
<p>New Jersey!</p>
<p>Public:</p>
<p>Rutgers-New Brunswick: This is the flagship campus of the state university. Sporty, in the Big East, known for lots of diversity, but unsafe area, with heavy partying; students who end up at Rutgers either love it to death, or got rejected from all of their other schools, since it is very easy to get into as an in-state</p>
<p>Rutgers-Newark/Camden - Other Rutgers campuses, very small, not very well known! They suck compared to the New Brunswick campus. </p>
<p>The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) - Great public school, ranked by US News & World Report, Forbes, Kiplinger as the #1 public school in NJ. Great for science, business, liberal arts, and teaching. </p>
<p>Kean - Dumb kids who want to go to college. </p>
<p>Montclair State - Your usual public university: big and easy to get into. </p>
<p>New Jersey City - urban kids and a great safety school for everyone else. </p>
<p>NJIT - Good technical school, the students are almost all Indians and Asians. </p>
<p>Richard Stockton - Southern NJ, near Atlantic City, safety school.</p>
<p>Ramapo - All the way up north, known for heavy partying, many refer it as âRam-a-hoâ due to the alleged promiscuity of the girls and guys up there. As well as lots of gay people.</p>
<p>Rowan - mostly druggies, drinkers, floozies, thats why people like it.</p>
<p>Thomas Edison State - Unknown, beyond a safety school. </p>
<p>UMDNJ - Solid dental/medical school, though it may not be Columbia or UPenn, it serves its purpose.</p>
<p>William Paterson - Another safety school, but more well-known due to the fact that Sammi Sweetheart from Jersey Shore played soccer there.</p>
<p>Private:</p>
<p>Princeton: enough saidâŠ</p>
<p>Bloomfield: Good for nursing⊠but besides that the school is unknown.</p>
<p>Caldwell: haha! ***</p>
<p>Centenary: Not even NJ people know of it. </p>
<p>Drew: Expensive! Not worth the price.</p>
<p>Fairleigh Dickinson - Average school all around, kind of looked down upon</p>
<p>Felician: Few in NJ knows its existence. </p>
<p>Monmouth: Think of Montclair State or Rowan, but only youâre paying much more and itâs near the Jersey Shore. Many partying students from wealthy areas (i.e. Central Jersey) frequent this school.</p>
<p>Rider: Expensive! Safety school for rich kids. </p>
<p>St. Elizabeth: Unknown </p>
<p>St. Peterâs: Very small. In Jersey City, many URM students, many are happy, nursing program popular.</p>
<p>Seton Hall: Good private school, but in an unsafe area (East Orange). Law school is great, popular and well-liked.</p>
<p>Somerset Christian: Advertised on TV, think of a miniature Bob Jones University in the only part of NJ where we had the KKK.</p>
<p>Stevens Institute of Technology: Good but very expensive.</p>
<p>All the stuff about UCSB being all party no academics is bs.</p>
<p>If that were true, theyâd rank among UCRejection, but instead are competitively one of the best after UCLA and UCB.</p>
<p>Great parties? sure. Great academics? hell yeah.</p>
<p>Maryland here. </p>
<p>UMD- Where basically everyone applies. Its considered to be a solid school. Many ivy rejects end up here. </p>
<p>Towson- Where UMD rejects go mostly. Its an alright school, but mostly everyone considers UMD to be better in every aspect. </p>
<p>Salisbury- Similar to Towson, but its right by the beach and somewhat more prestigious, but not by much. </p>
<p>UMBC- Where the kids from Baltimore go mostly. Its a pretty good college, with solid programs in the sciences. Many people apply to this college, and its #1 in up and coming universities. </p>
<p>Johnâs Hopkins- Where all the smart kids go. Awesome lax program and med school. Basically the best university in the entire state. </p>
<p>McDaniel- For average students. Similar to Salisbury and Towson. A lot of kids that go there love it. </p>
<p>Stevenson- Basically the same as McDaniel. </p>
<p>Frostburg- Where all the leftovers go. Its a joke to get in, and its used as a last resort for a lot of people.</p>
<p>great thread idea! I apologize , I did not read all 53 previous pages, sorry if I repeat info.</p>
<p>Illinois⊠where do I start?!</p>
<p>U of I - great reputation for Ag, Engineering, typical Land Grant College. No financial breaks for in-state tho, very expensive state school! I guess this would be my comment for all IL state schools.</p>
<p>Northern IL - up and coming, great for nursing, business. Good Jazz program and football definitely getting better. DeKalb not much of a college town tho.</p>
<p>Western IL - great for Law Enforcement/Forensics⊠otherwise, a party school.</p>
<p>Bradley - PeoriaâŠlots of money for smart kids</p>
<p>Northwestern - good reputation but very expensive. Very liberal. No undergrad Business degree but good graduate school. Lovely campus on Lake Michigan.</p>
<p>U of Chgo. - also good reputation, expensive, liberal. Overrated in my opinion. Nice campus if you like city life.</p>
<p>Just my humble opinions :)</p>
<p>Virginia</p>
<p>Publics-
Va Tech- Good for engineering. Definitely a party school, big on sports. Probably has a reputation as the nerdiest of the VA schools.
UVA- Really good school, has the most people from outside VA. The toughest to get into. Most people see it as a preppy rich-kid school.
VCU- Most urban of the VA schools. Good for art and medicine. Really diverse, tons of drugs and hipsters.
JMU- Our biggest party school. Good for education. Kind of in the middle of nowhere. Itâs known forb its hot girls. Some smart kids go here though.
GMU- Right by DC. Its becoming better known I think. Good for english, but in my experience its a lot of rich kids that go here.
Longwood- cow town. Only good for education.
Radford- STDs.
Christopher Newport- Really nice campus in a somewhat sketchy area. I think its getting better known.
William and Mary- On par with uva as far as academics and admissions difficulty goes. Probably the most granola of the Virginia schools.
Old Dominion- Slacker school.</p>
<p>Notable privates:</p>
<p>University of Richmond- University of Rich Men, university of Racists, etc. Good school but really expensive, gorgeous campus though.
Liberty U- For religious kooks.
Washington and Lee- no one really talks about it much. It has a white, preppy, rich reputation and good academics.</p>
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<p>My Maryland list and reputations</p>
<p>Most selective collegesâKids with high stats and can afford the higher price sticker. These are private colleges. </p>
<p>John Hopkins University</p>
<p>St Johnâs College</p>
<p>Military Academy-- Great free education but with a service component. Which I believe does not make this free. Also, a very different type of selection. </p>
<p>Naval Academy </p>
<p>The more selective state colleges. These are good value colleges. </p>
<p>University of Maryland College Park</p>
<p>Saint Maryâs College of Maryland</p>
<p>These next colleges are good state colleges but not as selective as the ones above. Often these colleges are attended by those that didnât get into UMCP or ones that were accepted to UMCP but got better incentives to attend these colleges. </p>
<p>University of Maryland Baltimore County</p>
<p>Towson University</p>
<p>Salibury University</p>
<p>These are good private colleges but not remotely as selective as the top private colleges.</p>
<p>Goucher College</p>
<p>Hood College</p>
<p>Loyola College</p>
<p>Mcdanial College</p>
<p>Mount St Maryâs College</p>
<p>Notre Dame of Maryland</p>
<p>Stevenson College</p>
<p>Washington College</p>
<p>The weaker state colleges or less selective are these colleges.</p>
<p>Frostburg University</p>
<p>University of Baltimore (not to be confused with University of Maryland, Baltimore which is a very good graduate school)</p>
<p>Unversity of Maryland University College (used by working adults to get their degree, so a different mission than most of the others) </p>
<p>These are the very least selective colleges. The average two part SAT is in the 800âs. </p>
<p>Bowie State University</p>
<p>Coppin State University</p>
<p>University of Maryland Eastern Shore</p>
<p>Morgan State University</p>
<p>North Carolina</p>
<p>Perspective of a high school senior from a new public high school (5 or 6 years old) in the Triangle area.</p>
<p>UNC - Great school, great reputation. Strong in sciences, social sciences, business, and anything âliberal artsâ. Reach school for average kids and (sometimes) a back up for smart kids. Most people either love the school or hate it. Students are intent on going to medical school, business school, or other professional school. Known for sports programs (mostly basketball) and academics. Large population of girls (60%), lots of Asians, preppy for the most part. About 5% of kids from my school go here.</p>
<p>Duke - Known for being rich/snobby. Youâre either really smart or have some sort of connection. A lot of people hate the school after their kids are denied, but having a degree from Duke is never a bad thing in NC. In my schoolâs entire history (again, weâre relatively new) weâve had 1 person get in; she was Mexican, and her parents were both doctors. She didnât get enough financial aid so she went to UNC Charlotte on a full ride.</p>
<p>Davidson - Underrated, most people have never heard of it due to its size. Great liberal arts school, but really hard to get into. They do your laundry for you (no joke). Nobody I know has ever gotten in, and only a few have applied.</p>
<p>Wake Forest - âWork Forestâ. Small school, more well known than Davidson. Very pretty campus and great undergraduate teaching. Again, I donât know of anyone who has actually gone here.</p>
<p>NC State - Like UNC, you either love the school or hate it. Great engineering (and related subjects; math, physics, etc) and design programs, but pretty lackluster in everything else. The go-to engineering school in the state. Itâs really your average state school; everyone from jocks to nerds to regular people go here. 20-25% from my school.</p>
<p>UNCW - If youâre not there for film/marine biology, youâre there to party. Apparently it has an up-and-coming business program, but so do a lot of schools. Wilmington has some nice areas, but most arenât near the college. Itâs by the beach, so yeah, party it up.</p>
<p>Campbell - In the middle of nowhere; most kids party at the nearby gas station. Very Christian and conservative (from what I hear). Has a law school in Raleigh which is pretty respected in the area.</p>
<p>Elon - Mostly for parents who just want to send their kids to a private school. Nice campus, decent business program, and lots of parties.</p>
<p>ECU - Biggest party school in the state. Graduate programs are much better than undergraduate. People go to drink, do drugs, smoke weed, etc. I donât see the draw here, but itâs the top choice for a lot of kids. 30-35% from my school go here.</p>
<p>UNC-Charlotte - A party school, but in the western part of the state. Decent academics, I think? Not a lot of kids from my school go here.</p>
<p>UNC-Asheville - Good for music and other âliberal artsâ type things. Hippie culture, I suppose. A few kids go here.</p>
<p>Appalachian State - Used to be highly regarded for their Teaching Fellows program, but they had to drop it due to budget cuts (or reduce funding, something like that). Well known for itâs marijuana-smoking population and abundance of mountain men and women. People from my school only go here if they really like the mountains.</p>
<p>UNCG - Good for nursing and music. Nothing special here, really.</p>
<p>Western Carolina - Like App State, but not as âwell knownâ.</p>
<p>Other UNCâs - Not much to say.</p>
<p>California is so big and has so many schools itâs hard to describe them all! Iâm from Sacramento (NorCal) so Iâll describe them from that perspective:</p>
<p>UC Davis: where alot of the smart kids go to stay close to home but still go to a UC. Pretty fun. Greek row, D1 football team. Amazing med/vet schools and agricultural sciences programs are what theyâre known for. Pretty conservative people but itâs fun! Total college town </p>
<p>UC Merced: Cow town and it smells like poop from experience lolâŠbut itâs the newest UC so everything is pretty new and nice</p>
<p>UC San Francisco: Iâm pretty sure theyâre only for grad school/med schools and donât offer undergrad. If you wanna go to a UC and med school in a big city then go here. </p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz: I go here. HIPPIES/Potheads everywhere. There are some amazing people here but there are lots of politically active liberals.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley: smart kids go here, d1 football, not as many liberals as UCSC but still here. Iâd choose Davis over Bizzerkly anytime.</p>
<p>UC Santa Barbara: The definition of a party school. You will graduate in 6 years with a BA/BS. Hot people but they are rude and stuck up Iâve heard</p>
<p>UCLA: The best/well know UC and is a perfect college with a mix of spirit, sports, academics, and social life</p>
<p>UC Riverside: No one applies hereâŠlol but they do have a med school and itâs in SoCal</p>
<p>CSU Chico: Fun, college town, Iâm thinking of transferring here because itâs such a great atmosphere and has great spirit and an honors college</p>
<p>CSU Sacramento: Kids go here to save money. Great area, D1 sports, great internship opportunities. Gorgeous campus</p>
<p>CSU San Diego: Like UCSB but not a UC</p>
<p>CSU Humboldt: Hippies/liberals</p>
<p>CSU San Fran: For kids who like the bug city, Greek life, Cheap, not to much to say</p>
<p>Santa Clara: Greek life, private, amazing law school</p>
<p>I donât think UC Riverside has a med school. I think youâre confusing it with UC Irvine.</p>
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<p>App didnât cut teaching fellows, there was significant cut in funding at the statewide level. The college of education is still very well regarded and is the biggest program on campus.</p>
<p>
Canât deny the marijuana smoking, but thereâs not as many redneck types as everyone thinks, mostly a lot of hipsters. Also, everyone is ignoring the Hayes School of Music, itâs an excellent, highly selective program. </p>
<p>
Theyâre quite famous for the marching band, however. And Cullowhee is a toilet, just saying.</p>
<p>
Iâm biased, but itâs also located in an awful, awful city. And the campus is very beautiful, but itâs starting to get crowded. They call it âWork Forestâ but I have friends who go there, and with all the Greek life and general campus activities there seems to be a good âStudy Hard Party Hardâ mix.</p>
<p>Iâll also add that Campbell gets lumped in with Brevard, Barton, Montreat, Mars Hill, Gardner-Webb, and Lees-McRae into this group of very small, non-selective LACs in dead-end towns. I know these are everywhere, but I swear we have the majority holding on them. I know people who have gone to most of those schools. The guy I know at Montreat took up knitting, thereâs that little to do.</p>
<p>EDIT: I just checked the website of Appalachianâs newspaper, (theappalachianonline.com). Everything you need to know to get a perception of App is on the front page.</p>
<p>Top stories: Student gets a big EPA grant, story about the rapist athletes, Watauga one of only 8 counties to vote against Amendment One, cops find 20 pounds of marijuana, and a story about music majors. Yeah, pretty much App right there.</p>
<p>Im from NJ so ill give my run down.</p>
<p>Rutgers ( New Brunswick)- I personally actually support it. For some reason it seems ppl from NJ on CC dislike it for some reason, but I think its a good school. I go to the 5th best public school in NJ, and maybe thats why its not really talked about when applying, because everyone goes to better schools. But it has good engineering, a great med program, fun atmosphere and has big east sports. Also good business school.</p>
<p>TCNJ - Definitely a favorite among the smarter kids who want to stay in state. Its competitive, but i havenât really looked into it so I dont know what its know for. Sorry about that. But from what ive heard has a nice campus, and its in a pretty part of the state, although its close to trenton. </p>
<p>Montclair State - No one from my grade looked at it because its a bottom feeder school. I think it has a decent art program. most people get in.</p>
<p>Kean- Same as montclair, although kean is way more popular in my area, because they have started to renovate the campus, and its a cheap commuter school. idk what its good at. Everyone gets in.</p>
<p>NJIT- my brother goes there! Haha probably one of the few white people, but its for engineers. In the nicer part of Newark, but its still newark. good education in my opinion.</p>
<p>Rowan U - H ave not met anyone who has applied or gone here haha. Idk what they are good at. Its like southern new jerseyâs version of montclair state.</p>
<p>William Paterson U ( My safety school and only public school in NJ I applied to)- In a really bad neighborhood. Campus is decent, has a good nursing program. Has a good communications program Mediocre academics at best. But its cheap.</p>
<p>Rider U ( The only other school I applied to from my home state)- Nice campus, definitely beginning to gain more popularity in my opinion. Has pretty good programs for everything, but nothing is outstanding. I liked it. But its somewhat isolated in terms that there is no town. But its 5 minutes from Princeton and 3 minutes from TCNJ.</p>
<p>BUT NJ HAS PRINCETON!!! YAY!</p>
<p>Here are some general perceptions of New York colleges, though not necessarily my own:</p>
<p>SUNY Binghamton - Best SUNY, ugly campus
SUNY Geneseo - Other best SUNY, in the middle of cow country
SUNy Albany - PARTY SCHOOL
SUNY Oneonta - the other party school
SUNY Potsdam - âŠCanada??
SUNY Stony Brook - the school where everyone comes home on weekends. Good for sciences though
SUNY New Paltz - Hippy town USA</p>
<p>Others:</p>
<p>Hofstra, Adelphi, St. Josephâs, SUNY Farmingdale - Oh, so youâre staying on Long Island?
Cornell - Cornellâs in the Ivy League?
Vassar - I thought that was in Jersey?
Colgate - Youâre going to be a dentist?
Any of the CUNYs - YOUâRE GOING TO NYC OMGGGGGGG
NYU - See above</p>
<p>
I lolâd. I know someone at Plattsburgh, does that have the same reputation?</p>
<p>
The reaction my friend got when she confirmed at Fordham.</p>
<p>I guess Iâll add some more stereotypes about Pennsylvania:
Public:
Penn State: Huge school, into sports and partying, but also well-regarded academically.
Pitt: Kind of like Penn State, but without the football and less partying.
Temple: Frankly, a lot of people are afraid of this place. Supposedly in a bad neighborhood.
Bloomsburg/Westchester etc: If you didnât make all Aâs and didnât take honors classes, you go to one of these places.
Luzerne Community College: No one really wants to go here (may have something to do with the Luzerne judge scandal and the fact that itâs community college)
Private:
UPenn: Smart kids go here, usually one kid goes a year. Sometimes confused with Penn state. Has the âivyâ stigma attached (if not confused with Penn State).
CMU: Highly regarded in comp sci, tech, and musical theater. Also for smart kids.
Lehigh: For engineers, usually. Most people see it as a really good school, unless theyâre the type who really like the whole âivyâ and elite thing.
Lafayette: Enemy of Lehigh. Equally good academic-wise, but not as focused on engineering.
Drexel: The hands on place; pretty good for engineering too. Lots of people get in but donât go because of the city.
Bucknell/Haverford: Well respected schools, but not too elite.
St. Joeâs/La Salle: Private religious schools that have high schools to match.</p>
<p>^General views/stereotypes from a middle class public high school in PA. May or may not be actually true.</p>
<p>Adding to Pennsylvania:</p>
<p>CCAC is where everybody jokes about getting rejected from if they get in trouble or something.
Penn State and Pitt are pretty average, but still respected. Still seems like a ton of people go to them so nothing special.
UPenn - A lot of people actually think this is Penn State, even within Pennsylvania. Not many people realize there is an Ivy League school in their own state.
CMU - a place for nerds and engineers. No one knows that it has a lot of other good schools too.</p>
<p>As a downstate Illinois resident, I have to say all Illinois colleges and universities seem overpriced for instate students. Yes they all offer good educations. A college is what you make of it. Most people will downgrade a school on location, especially if they are not from downstate. That being said, I will admit we are looking at out of state schools. In state, and only one at that, for backup. We live close the the UICU and I wouldnât even think of going there. My daughter has not desire to go there and its cost is too high for what you get. Otherwise, any of them would do but the cost is the same as many out of state schools.</p>
<p>Iâll take SOUTH CAROLINA.<br>
Anderson: Very Religious, good for teaching?
Bob Jones: Kind of crappy
Coastal: Specializes in landscaping and STDâs
The Citadel: Military Academy,
Clemson: Extremely overpriced, mediocre academics, specialized in engineering and agriculture
College of Charleston: Mediocre academics, beautiful and in Charleston
Erskine: Religious, surprisingly decent academics
Furman: clearly the best school in South Carolina, small liberal arts college, second-tier liberal arts college
USC: crappy dorms, crappy campus, crappy city. Just sort of dumped on Columbia.
Winthrop: good for teaching
Wofford: good I guess</p>
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<p>Oh, my. I looked it up and I see what you mean. The campus could probably benefit from tearing apart some of those streets, although since itâs right in the middle of the city that would probably really screw up traffic patterns. </p>
<p>The best campus set-ups, I think, are ones that limit entrances by road and only have roadways where itâs most essential. This reduces traffic, noise, and pollution, encourages walking and outdoor activity in general, and creates more green space. Looking at it, USC has none of these features. They just sort of plopped it down on top of the rest of the cityâs grid system. </p>
<p>I had no idea that the âotherâ Carolina was that urban.</p>