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10-12-2004, 06:09 PM
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| Over/Underrated Colleges
I'm just curious if anyone here goes to a school that they expected to love, but don't. Also, what are some schools you go to/know of of that are much better than you expected? | 
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10-12-2004, 06:24 PM
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| Overrated:
Upenn-it's really not that great, except for wharton, and if it wasn't ivy or had wharton, it wouldn't be as recognized as it is | |
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10-12-2004, 06:40 PM
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| under: Georgia...Honors program is solid. Not considered by kids outside the south. Cheaper than most and merit aid available. Great town.Good weather. | |
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10-12-2004, 08:00 PM
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| Overrated: Any school that is my school's rival school, or is within a few rankings of my school in the US News and World Report rankings.
Underrated: My school (of course) | |
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10-12-2004, 08:47 PM
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| Northeastern is definately the most underrated school of them all! | |
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10-12-2004, 09:50 PM
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| Overrated: MIT
Underrated: most LACs | |
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10-12-2004, 09:57 PM
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| Overrated: WUSTL,
Underrated: Brown, Dartmouth | |
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10-12-2004, 10:57 PM
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| overrated: Penn, WUSTL, Brandeis, Tufts
underrated: Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Rice, Northwestern, John Hopkins. | |
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10-12-2004, 11:08 PM
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| As a disclaimer I will say this is biased since I attend here...
but I think Lehigh is severely underrated. This school has done nothing but impress me. Top notch faculty, small classes, great technology in the classrooms, great career preparation, very strong recruiting base( i do business but the same goes for engineering), campus and school as a whole is very aligned with an ivy (old school, similar architecture, similar size)...
.. all the students here are extremely intelligent.... the patriot league gives the same feel as the ivy league with the old tradition bound rivalries within it....the school hosts some really great events: michael moore will be speaking here in a few weeks, def poetry (hbo show) will be recording live in two weeks and oh yea the social life is awesome
To take it a step further I would say the whole patriot league is pretty much underrated... Colgate (best school in the league) is just as good as the lower ivies... Bucknell is often overlooked... Holy Cross as well... boo to lafayette... cant say Army and Navy are underrated because I think most people already recognize their excellence
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10-12-2004, 11:44 PM
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| are we talking USNews rankings here? if so,
Overrated: WUSTL, Duke, Penn
Underrated: Dartmouth, Berkeley, Michigan | |
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10-13-2004, 09:49 AM
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| This really gets into a game of whose truth is the truth? You can come at these judgments with all sorts of personal criteria. Bearing that in mind, here are some of my observations:
Overrated: Harvard, Penn, Bowdoin, Cornell, Emory, WUSTL, Wellesley, Brandeis, NYU, Smith, Washington & Lee
Underrated: Princeton, Stanford, Cal Tech, Georgetown, Duke, Swarthmore, Boston College, Chicago, Bucknell, Connecticut College, Dickinson, Furman, Holy Cross, Kenyon, St. Lawrence, Skidmore, William & Mary. | |
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10-13-2004, 12:04 PM
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| From personal experience.....two sons both graduates of Harvard and PENN...one daugher at Carnegie Mellon
Overrated: PENN
Underrated: Carnegie
HArvard is HAHR-VAHRD!!! you go if you get in....its the experience and the prestige | |
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10-13-2004, 12:26 PM
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| scubasteve, do you think you could post your email address or screen name? I'm considering Lehigh very strongly, but I had some questions that I've been hoping a current student could answer. | |
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10-13-2004, 10:21 PM
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| just curious why the people who think penn is overrated do...
i'm not disagreeing, but are there some specific things that let you down? | |
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10-13-2004, 10:24 PM
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| They probably just don't like that it's with the "impenetrable" ring of elites:HYPMSC | |
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