What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

The word "average" has a meaning, both absolutely in mathematics and generally in conversation.

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Posters are responding to the headline, not OP's characterization of two specific schools.

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Notre Dame, only because the cache and status conferred artificially inflate its numbers. It’s a good school, but in my experience, graduates are pretty average.

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NYU, UVA

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University of Virginia

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Whatever schools my kid didn’t get into.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Yikes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame, only because the cache and status conferred artificially inflate its numbers. It’s a good school, but in my experience, graduates are pretty average.

It's cachet, dummy.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU and Michigan come to mind. Fairly average schools yet they seem to be popular.

Ding, ding, ding, the Michigan hater is back on

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Another vote for Elon. I know, kids LOVE it there. That's great, but then what? Not much that I have seen.

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Anonymous wrote:Another vote for Elon. I know, kids LOVE it there. That's great, but then what? Not much that I have seen.

+1

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Uva

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Oberlin

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Anonymous wrote:Uva

Someone needs to tell the Rhodes, Marshall, Luce and Fulbright committees then. And Oxford, since my DD, a graduate of UVA, is there right now. https://www.cbs19news.com/story/41733271/uva-top-producer-of-fulbright-scholars

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Anonymous wrote:University of Virginia

not overrated when you consider the price for in-state tuition. A great deal in fact.