<p>Congrats on bringing back a thread that’s been dead for 4 1/2 years, guys. Try reading the whole thread before leaping to grind your axes.</p>
<p>Hopefully this will be locked. Goodness knows we have enough of these garbage threads floating around.</p>
<p>^^lol i knew you would comment. hes right though, who cares about engineering =p</p>
<p>the more I come to this forum, the more I think a lot of the posters have mental issues or handicaps.</p>
<p>Zahra, how big is your family? Many Harvard alums, plus grads from 4 of the country’s best LACs, with room left over for a high school drop-out. A family that big and talented, yet none of them can put Harvard’s many opportunities to work for themselves?</p>
<p>I agree with IB and others that this forum invites emotional posts from people with axes to grind. And here, I’ll put in a plug for USNWR. If we did not have it (and several complementary rankings that apply different criteria) we’d be reduced to anecdotal statements which, in the aggregate, may add some balance and nuance to objective data, but which usually don’t comprise a very reliable basis for decision-making. There is no one “best school in the country”; they are all properly rated by USNWR as long as no egregious data errors have been made, and you agree with the magazine’s criteria; they are virtually all over-rated or under-rated according to some different set of criteria.</p>
<p>Boston University. It’s expensive and not very prestigious.</p>
<p>I have to disagree about BU. It has a reputation as a “rich kids” school, which may in fact be true on a certain level. BUT from what my D has experienced during her freshman (and now sophomore) years has been amazing. Accessable professors, internship opportunities, interesting classes, starting from year one in your major, and the people she has met are really terrific. Everyone she knows is already looking for summer internships and work their tails off in school. </p>
<p>On another note, I’d have to say that any public university in my rapidly going broke state of California is overrated. Its impossible to get classes and there are mandatory furlough days this year. Its really horrendous.</p>
<p>Overrated vs underrated has so much to do with where you live and the circles you run in. BU is in a tough spot considering the multitude of great schools in MA. Outside of NY and New England, if you went to the flagship state school in a given state it is as solid a degree as any except HYP.</p>
<p>NYU is overrated. WAY too overrated.</p>
<p>My daughter intends to apply to Wake Forest, but she’s not interested in engineering, so it doesn’t matter to her. The Dept. of Health and Exercise Science what she’s going for. She plans to apply to an Occupational Therapy grad program after she gets her undergraduate degree. Of course, this is how she feels NOW. No telling if any of that will change in the future. Personally, I hope she stays on this allied health track. Supposed job security in the years to come. 
Not to mention, satisfaction for many.</p>
<p>How could anyone know if any school is overrated or underrated unless they went there themselves? And how the heck do you resurrect a 4 1/2 year old thread anyway? Don’t they dissolve into cyberspace after a while?</p>
<p>"Basically any school where grad school success or job market placement is dismal, that isn’t a cheap school, like your local CC or fourth-tier Uni.</p>
<p>Also any school that has horrible financial aid would qualify, as well. "</p>
<p>Can’t believe no one has acknowledged this.</p>
<p>^Was just about to!!</p>
<p>OHKID is correlating a lack of fin aid to how positively a school is viewed. He’s another whiney bitter poor kid. OHKID has lost all credibility. What a joke.</p>