What colleges get the most hate on this board?

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Anonymous wrote:Why is UVA so maligned? Right now, that is our second top choice. Waiting on EA decisions.

Jealousy.

I just read an article about a girl at Langley High with a perfect ACT score and straight As. UVA is her first choice.

This!

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Duke and Chicago

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is UVA so maligned? Right now, that is our second top choice. Waiting on EA decisions.

Jealousy.

I just read an article about a girl at Langley High with a perfect ACT score and straight As. UVA is her first choice.

So a UVA supporter can claim UVA is Ivy level. If someone disagrees, it is simply jealousy?[/qu


Where is the Ivy claim?

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Syracuse (and rightfully so)

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UChicago boosters on this forum (after a string of murders and increased violent crime in Chicago) are just sad.

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Just a lot of ax grinding and trolling that’s best to ignore.

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literature, psychology, religious studies, art history, philosophy communications, drama, anthropology, gender study, art, etc.

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Puke, I mean Duke

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Anonymous wrote:Just don't get the hate. If a parent didn't attend and/or won't let their kid attend a school they see as substandard, then why even waste a scintilla of energy about it. The level of energy that goes into arguing about Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Hopkins, Northwestern, etc or Case, Tufts, Wash U, etc - really? Just preposterous.

Welcome to DCUM - our anonymous forum where people of questionable morals turn to make themselves feel better by throwing shade on others……

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Anonymous wrote:duke

Duke envy! Honest persons admit Duke is an elite institution with a consistently great basketball team.

Much UVA hate which seems in response to UVA boosters trying to elevate the brand higher than reality.

I’m not a hater. My feeling is that any school outside my neighborhood that I’ve heard about at all can do great things for the right students.

But, when I was applying to college, back in the 1980s, and wanting to major in physics, I assumed that Duke, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Northwestern were all weaker than places like Tufts, Emory, Wash. U. or Case Western *because* they had Division I sports. It wasn’t till I started reading DCUM, as a parent, that I learned that people thought of Duke, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt as prestigious.

It could be that, outside of the Southeast, Duke takes a hit, with respect to perceptions of academic prestige, because it looks like a basketball team with a university attached.

You have got to be kidding. Duke, Northwestern and Vandy have always been stronger schools than WashU, Tufts and Case Western. Even back in the ‘80s.

Vandy is no better than WashU or Emory. Tufts and Case I agree are a step below.

While this thread started out as cutting down Schools like Duke and UVA it also illustrates the unwarranted criticism of schools like Tufts. It’s a fine school - basically a SLAC with a few graduate schools but it is regularly compared with larger elite universities. That’s t not what Tufts ever was or is trying to be. Even though it is clearly a highly competitive school based on acceptance rates and current students, family, and alumni are all positive about it, people still try to cut the school down. As with other naysayers referenced above, there are one or two anti-Tufts forum users who feel the need to denigrate the school every chance they get and it’s just tired. Cutting down any of these schools is ridiculous as for the most part they are exceptional learning institutions.

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Tufts seem to stir the haters a lot. They can be very nasty on DCUM about the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tufts seem to stir the haters a lot. They can be very nasty on DCUM about the school.

Any New England school gets hate from the southerners - most of whom have never been to the northeast, save their husband maybe (MAYBE) bringing them to big, bad, scary NYC.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tufts seem to stir the haters a lot. They can be very nasty on DCUM about the school.

Any New England school gets hate from the southerners - most of whom have never been to the northeast, save their husband maybe (MAYBE) bringing them to big, bad, scary NYC.

LOL.

LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tufts seem to stir the haters a lot. They can be very nasty on DCUM about the school.

Any New England school gets hate from the southerners - most of whom have never been to the northeast, save their husband maybe (MAYBE) bringing them to big, bad, scary NYC.

LOL.

DC Metronians are not southerners.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:duke

Duke envy! Honest persons admit Duke is an elite institution with a consistently great basketball team.

Much UVA hate which seems in response to UVA boosters trying to elevate the brand higher than reality.

I’m not a hater. My feeling is that any school outside my neighborhood that I’ve heard about at all can do great things for the right students.

But, when I was applying to college, back in the 1980s, and wanting to major in physics, I assumed that Duke, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Northwestern were all weaker than places like Tufts, Emory, Wash. U. or Case Western *because* they had Division I sports. It wasn’t till I started reading DCUM, as a parent, that I learned that people thought of Duke, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt as prestigious.

It could be that, outside of the Southeast, Duke takes a hit, with respect to perceptions of academic prestige, because it looks like a basketball team with a university attached.

You have got to be kidding. Duke, Northwestern and Vandy have always been stronger schools than WashU, Tufts and Case Western. Even back in the ‘80s.

Vandy is no better than WashU or Emory. Tufts and Case I agree are a step below.

While this thread started out as cutting down Schools like Duke and UVA it also illustrates the unwarranted criticism of schools like Tufts. It’s a fine school - basically a SLAC with a few graduate schools but it is regularly compared with larger elite universities. That’s t not what Tufts ever was or is trying to be. Even though it is clearly a highly competitive school based on acceptance rates and current students, family, and alumni are all positive about it, people still try to cut the school down. As with other naysayers referenced above, there are one or two anti-Tufts forum users who feel the need to denigrate the school every chance they get and it’s just tired. Cutting down any of these schools is ridiculous as for the most part they are exceptional learning institutions.

Tufts is not at that top 20/25 level. It's a great school but admitting the truth isn't cutting the school down.