<p>University of Georgia- excellent academics, especially for those in the Honors program. </p>
<p>I would also consider the University of Arizona, UT Austin, Furman, the College of the Atlantic, the University of Pittsburgh, Warren Wilson, Rutgers, UNC-Asheville, and Purdue underrated.</p>
<p>Boston U, Syracuse U = underated colleges with top ranked journalism schools</p>
<p>boston college.</p>
<p>batman628...boston college is not underrated at all.. id say its overrated</p>
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<p>Both are in the mid 20s.</p>
<p>Also, I don't know if you're fairly representing Alexandre's view, but perhaps you are.</p>
<p>That "selectivity" at UCB and UCLA does not result in any better students than at UM. You just have the same 40,000 cali kids applying to all the UC's hoping to get into a couple.</p>
<p>I think BC is overrated.
However, Washington University in St. Louis is considered so overrated that it is UNDERRATED!</p>
<p>barrons, not quite, but if you want to think that, I'm not going to stop you. Some kids do apply to all the UCs, but some only apply to 1, some to 2. Have any statistics?</p>
<p>DRab: I think its fair to say that the major reason Berkeley and UCLA have lower acceptence rates than Michigan is that there are a lot more unqualified and qualified students applying to these universities because its in California. California college bound students make up 10% of the nation's college bound students (That's why the UC system had such a strong influence on changing our SATs). It's no wonder Berkeley/UCLA get a lot more in-state applications than Michigan. Out of state, Berkeley/UCLA rejects a lot of qualified students because of their 5% out-of-state target making it more "selective". That doesn't improve the quality of school in my opinion.</p>
<p>BTW, I do not attend Michigan. I just don't think its overrated.</p>
<p>Sure, you're correct in that it's a huge reason, but what about all the other huge reasons?</p>
<p>U of Chicago
Georgetown
Rochester
U of Michigan
Cornell </p>
<p>All schools underranked by U.S News!</p>
<p>most Underrated schools:</p>
<p>Georgetown
Tufts
Bard
Brown
Pomona
Bowdoin</p>
<p>Wake Forest
Hamilton
Trinity
Brown among the Ivies</p>
<p>How is University of Chicago underrated? Can't really go much higher, can it?</p>
<p>Here's the thing with these kind of threads. How does anyone know if a school's underrated if you didn't attend it? That's really the only way to make a judgement, in my opinion. </p>
<p>I think UIC is underrated because I went there. I can speak from personal experience. I don't think its a great school, but I think it could probably compete with schools ranked 100 and above pretty favorably. I can't speak for Michigan or another other school, because I never been there (as a student anyway). I just commented on U of C because its like a top 10 (I think its like 6) school. I'm not sure how much higher it needs to be? It gets a ton of recognition nationally and globally...I don't think that school is an example of a "underrated instituation". I really don't think Michigan, Cornell, Rochester, and Georgetown really make the "underrated grade" either. There all extremely highly regarded schools and everyone knows who they are. </p>
<p>That's like me saying Kellog or Harvard's got an underrated Business School because they're ranked number #2 behind Wharton. That's not underrated.</p>
<p>Wake Forest
Hamilton
Trinity</p>
<h2>Brown among the Ivies</h2>
<p>Definitely a better example of schools being underrated. I don't know anything about any of them, personally. But they are schools that aren't widely talked about and further down on Ranking Lists. And Brown was appropriately specified - "among the ivies".</p>
<p>i'm sorry, but hamilton underrated??? its ranked around 15th, yet has a
1348 SAT average and a 36% acceptance rate. how on earth can that be UNDERrated? (and this coming from a HUGE nescac supporter)</p>
<p>Northeastern. It is better than, if not just as good as, Boston U.</p>
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<p>And why is that? (curious)</p>
<p>Firstly:</p>
<p>BU Avg SAT=1278
NEU Avg SAT=1273</p>
<p>Secondly:</p>
<p>BU Avg ACT=28
NEU Avg ACT=26</p>
<p>Thirdly and finally:</p>
<p>BU acceptance rate=57%
NEU acceptance rate=47%</p>
<p>The difference in ACT does NOT justify the 50-rank (USNWR) difference between Northeastern and BU. BU also has no niche. Northeastern has one of the best co-op programs in the country. This is a fact that's been proven over and over and over. I would appreciate it if you did not dispute this.</p>
<p>While I agree that Northeastern is an up and coming school that deserves more than its 100th placement, you do skew some of the numerical data:</p>
<p>Firstly, the average SATs may be the same, but the distribution isn't:</p>
<p>Northeastern: 1140-1320
Boston University: 1180-1370
The ACT ranges are also different.</p>
<p>Secondly, the class rank:</p>
<p>Northeastern:
Students in top 10% of HS class: 36%
Students in top 50% of HS class: 94% </p>
<p>Boston University:
Students in top 10% of HS class: 58%
Students in top 50% of HS class: 99%</p>
<p>BU does have its niches in the liberal arts, a pseudo NYU. It also has its school of communications and the medical school.</p>