Overrated/Underrated

College Search & Lists
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<p><a href=“NRC Rankings”>NRC Rankings;

<p>(Average of non-zero scores, the other columns aren’t really that valuable)</p>

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<p>First off, those are not US News rankings. Secondly, how do they formulate the scores? I couldn’t find that on the list.</p>

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<p>By phd papers published and citations in other rocks, right?</p>

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<p>…and the Top 5:</p>

<p>Stanford, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Texas …</p>

<p>And that wraps up the NCAA football ranking, next up at the top of the hour SportsCenter…</p>

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<p>Top grad schools using usnews</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/topresearch.htm[/url]”>http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/topresearch.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Rice > Michigan…</p>

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<p>How is Rice a better rounded university than Michigan?</p>

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<p>It just is…it just is.</p>

<p>LOL, I know I have no proof right now, but you better be sure that I will get some!</p>

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<p>I always thought U of Michigan was a major research institution that has established itself as a player in engineering, the sciences, and political science. Did I miss something? I know its a public university, but I don’t think it should detract from its credibility. I’m not too familiar with Rice though. What exactly is their definite area of specialty?</p>

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<p>Greatness.</p>

<p>LOL in all seriousness, Rice is good for the sciences and music.</p>

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<p>georgetown is EGREGIOUSLY underrated by usnews. (mcdonough at 28? HA)</p>

<p>the university of pennsylvania is overrated by just a couple slots (over stanford and MIT?)</p>

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<p>Michigan > Rice</p>

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<p>"georgetown is EGREGIOUSLY underrated by usnews. (mcdonough at 28? HA)</p>

<p>the university of pennsylvania is overrated by just a couple slots (over stanford and MIT?)"</p>

<p>mcDonough itself can’t really help the whole university. mcDonough is not THAT good anyway, Ross(michigan) beats the $hit out of it, but, still, Michigan is ranked #22. </p>

<p>Also, I can use your argument to defend Upenn. Wharton??? only #4? Business school is not everything. Georgetown’s peer accessment score apparently sucks.</p>

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<p>on cc:
Overrated: THE UC’s(especially UCB and UCLA), the Ivy league(except hyp)</p>

<p>on usnwr:
Way overrated: Penn, Duke
overrated: Umich, Brown</p>

<p>underrated: GEORGETOWN, the top publics(excluding Umich), Boston College, and Cornell
slightly underrated: MIT</p>

<p>NOTE: Don’t get me wrong, Umich is a great school, i just feel that 22 is a little too high.</p>

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<p>underrated: Georgetown, Stanford
Overrated: WASHU (big time!), Penn (although not by much)</p>

<p>One could make a very good argument that Stanford deserves to be #2 behind the big H. I would probably agree with it.</p>

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<p>My view is in tiers:

  1. HYPSM and maybe Caltech
  2. Penn, Duke, Columbia
  3. JHU, Northwestern, UChicago, Cornell</p>

<p>SM and Cal are underrated slightly, Duke and Penn are overrated slightly, and the rest seem about right, with Cornell maybe slightly underrated</p>

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<p>overrated slightly, how about by at least 5-6 spots. Duke and Penn are not top 5 universities, and anyone who thinks that is purely ignorant. Penn and Duke, I think are inded top 10 schools, top 5 is pushing it.</p>

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<p>Barrons, thanks for posting that link. Someone I know told me about it, and told me I should look at that. However, I forgot to do it.</p>

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<p>Overrated: wakeforest, USC, emory, vanderbilt
Underrated: Tufts (I’m allowed my alma mater bias!), BU, GWU, UCSD</p>

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<p>My list revised.</p>

<p>Underrated: Duke University. I just feel that it should be number 1. It is the clearly the best institution ever created. You know, maybe it should have a negative number to express just how high it is.</p>

<p><em>puts on flame retardant suit</em></p>

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