<p>ReninDetroit wrote: If it marketed itself more to out of state students, it really would be a premiere university. The other school down the road makes MSU seem like a regional school, but it has amazing programs in education, agriculture and food science, public policy, and a few other weirdo degrees. And it has the best study abroad program in the country.</p>
<p>Agreed. MSU really hasnt pushed as hard as it can out-of-state, esp recruiting-wise, but hopefully thats changing with the schools goal to up it out/state percentage. (btw, you can add communications, nuclear physics and microbiology to MSUs list of amazing programs.)</p>
<p>Tennessee: Rhodes College, Sewanee: University of the South...
DC: American University, Catholic University of America
Louisiana: Tulane University...</p>
<p>California: Santa Clara University
Oklahoma: University of Tulsa
Arkansas: Hendrix College
Texas: Austin College
New York: Hartwick College
Pennsylvania: St. Joseph's University
Massachusetts: Clark University</p>
<p>Colorado: Colorado College seems to be pretty underrated and is a really good school...
then again, being in the middle of Colorado Springs might be why it's...not so popular. Heh. </p>
<p>I also think CU Boulder is a really underrated school, but that could just be because that's the state school here, so who knows!</p>
<p>I would agree the Claremont colleges are overlooked, especially when you're not from California, especially in my school in NJ only one person knew about Harvey Mudd when I was applying there and that's because she was applying to Pomona, other than that people were absolutely clueless.</p>
<p>I have alot of very bright and driven friends from the LA area who have never heard of Pomona. All they hear growing up is UCLA. I would also say CAL POLY and Long Beach State and very unknown outside of CALI.</p>
<p>I only read the first page, so I don't know how many times it has been said, but to my limited knowledge: I triple JMU. (Virginia) It gets attention from outside the state (a LOT of NJ kids go there) but not enough, not even inside the state does it get enough. It's a great school and I've never met more kids so absolutely happy with their school, I've only heard of one person transfering, and thats only because they had their heart completely set on another school. Sorry, I could go on and on, I think JMU is a great school</p>
<p>I do have to agree, as well, the U of Richmond gets VERY little attention when it deserves SO much more. I wasn't the biggest fan of it when I visited but I can definitely appreciate it and see that not enough people do!</p>
<p>Hmmm, though I would say Wesleyan is only a hidden gem for liberals because I think it's more of a hell for conservatives, at least from the stories my friend had told me.</p>
<p>For New York, i'd stick SUNY Geneseo in there. Binghamton usually gets all of the hype, though students at Geneseo are of equal calibur and seem to have a much more pleasant experience (at least based on the feedback from half a dozen of my friends at each school). Plus, it's ultra-cheap for NY students and still a good barget for out of state students.</p>
<p>I see people consider Bates, Colby, and Bowdoin gems for Maine.. well I live here so I think that Husson isn't too bad but Colby and Bowdoin are definitely up there. UMaine's engineering program is overlooked as well.</p>