What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?
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Anonymous
| NYU and Michigan come to mind. Fairly average schools yet they seem to be popular. |
Anonymous
| This is a SUCH a stupid question - no school is overrated if your kid excels there. Who cares if they get into reach if they don’t stand out? |
Anonymous
| Why start a thread with no positive intent? This is silly. |
Anonymous
| Where did you go, OP? |
Anonymous
| UVa |
Anonymous
Both very highly rated, NYU with superior business and music/arts programs and Michigan with top 5-10 programs in almost every discipline it offers. |
Anonymous
| Elon? |
Anonymous
| Whatever school you went to, OP, if this question is any indication of the education you received. |
Anonymous
| The problem with anyone in this area is thinking that they are better/smarter/higher than someone else simply because of where they went to school. |
Anonymous
| Pretty much every SLAC |
Anonymous
| NYU |
Anonymous
| Maybe they’re popular because they’re not as “average” as you think. |
Anonymous
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So this is where we get to say that colleges consistently rated in the top 100 out of 3,000+ colleges nationwide are “average”?
Some people learned their math at colleges that are well below average then. |
Anonymous
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I don't think other posters are saying these are bad schools. They are just saying that they do not hold it in the revered position that some posters do.
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Anonymous
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And people's disregard may NOT be all about rankings of selectivity.
NYU fell down in my eyes when I saw how they treated their quarantined students. (Why hire a food service company that had lost its contract for poor performance in the past?) Similarly, I am disgusted by Georgetown's lack of maintenance. We went there for a meeting and there was LITERALLY not a chair you could sit on in the common area of the student union. So many were broken or stained to the point of needing fumigation. https://www.picuki.com/profile/georgetown.hotmess https://thetab.com/us/georgetown/2015/11/17/darnall-hall-resident-takes-bad-reputation-1165 |