Real? Fake? Good or bad?

College Search & Lists
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<p>I keep getting e-mails from certain colleges but I don’t know if they’re legitimate or not.
the college names are:
University of the Pacific
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
St. John’s University
Duquesne University.</p>

<p>anyone ever heard of any of these colleges?
any good?</p>

<p>they all say that they’ll waive the admission fee for me
and I can get some sort of first-choice, special application.</p>

<p>help?</p>

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<p>Depends on which St. John’s. There’s one in New York that’s part of the Big East that’s pretty good, and one in Minnesota that’s not as good. RPI is also a pretty good tech school. Don’t know anything about University of the Pacific, and I’m vaguely aware of Duquesne (probably because they made the NCAA basketball tournament at some point).</p>

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<p>Out of those all that I can say is that RPI is a great school (if you don’t mind the m/f ratio).</p>

4

<p>University of Pacific has a well regarded dental school, and they have an accelerated undergrad program for dentistry and others like law and pharmacy.</p>

5

<p>Renesselaer (RPI) is ranked #41 in the USNews top 50 National Universities, if that means anything to you. So it is real and it is good.</p>

6

<p>I believe that Duquesne University is a mid-sized school (over 10,000 students) located in Pittsburgh, PA. I don’t know all that much about it, except that if one were to rank the Pittsburgh schools, it would probably fall behind University of Pittsburgh.</p>

<p>I have a friend who looked at University of the Pacific… she was using it as a safety school for some of the “better” west coast universities (University of Southern California, UC-Berkeley, UCLA). </p>

<p>Lastly, Rensselear is definitely recognizable to me… it’s a very strong tech school located in the greater Albany, NY area. They also have a five year architecture program which is rather well-regarded, I believe. Out of the four you’ve listed, RPI is by far the best school.</p>

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<p>Are you kidding about RPI? This is a great school. All the others are real schools.</p>

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<p>RPI’s a great school and provides great merit aid. For someone looking to major in engineering, it’s usually a great safety/match.
Dusquesne and St. John’s are both real (I’ve heard of them both), but I don’t know much about them (other than the fact that a fairly intelligent kid from my school is a current student).</p>