What colleges get the most hate on this board?

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NYU for no reason If people really knew what they were talking about they would not be trashing all of these good schools. Maybe their kid can't get in

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Anonymous wrote:NYU for no reason If people really knew what they were talking about they would not be trashing all of these good schools. Maybe their kid can't get in

NYU just gets wayyyy overhyped, though. And it's as close to a scam as you can get in higher ed (at least within the top tier).

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

Lol. This is not true.

Very true

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Anonymous wrote:NYU for no reason If people really knew what they were talking about they would not be trashing all of these good schools. Maybe their kid can't get in

NYU just gets wayyyy overhyped, though. And it's as close to a scam as you can get in higher ed (at least within the top tier).

Not going to wade into overhype, though I find the scam thing to be incredibly troubling. Preys on working and middle class kids who want to escape their hometowns, but would be much better served attending their state school or parlaying what are good grades into merit scholarships at less "prestigious" institutions. There for the grace of god could have been me. I picked a LAC that offered me money. Also had loans. Not overly onerous, but did make a dent in ability to save. For grad school, passed on Columbia b/c of COL (even though I was living in NYC at the time, just knew living there as a student would end up being too costly) and attended a comparable school in a slightly less expensive city (able to share an apartment and live close enough to school so transport costs were minimal).

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

Lol. This is not true.

Very true

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Cornell+University&with=Vanderbilt+University

62% of students pick Cornell, only 38% for Vanderbilt.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

Lol. This is not true.

Very true

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Cornell+University&with=Vanderbilt+University

62% of students pick Cornell, only 38% for Vanderbilt.

Parchment is not reliable, but 60/40 sounds about right.

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After seeing multiple threads today, looks like GW should be included on the most hated.

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Anonymous wrote:After seeing multiple threads today, looks like GW should be included on the most hated.

I don’t think it’s hated….people don’t really give it much thought.

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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!

It just means her parents are too poor to send her somewhere else.

Lol you’re bitter and on copium

+ sad.

You UVA boosters are pathetic. It is a southern state school for white middle class and ower class kids. Nothing more- nothing less.

UVA is the third or fourth best public university in the US depending upon which ranking service you read. And in the top 25 of all colleges and universities by USN&WR.

All you Virginians who take your highly regarded flagship school for granted make me ill. New Yorkers would kill to have a public university like it, and we pay tons more in taxes than you. So shut the f up about it and be grateful for once in your entitled, pathetic lives.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

Lol. This is not true.

Very true

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Cornell+University&with=Vanderbilt+University

62% of students pick Cornell, only 38% for Vanderbilt.

Parchment is not reliable, but 60/40 sounds about right.

I think this is more about the fact that most Northeast college students prefer to stay in the Northeast, closer to home. And a huge number of college students are from the Northeast.

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Anonymous wrote:NYU for no reason If people really knew what they were talking about they would not be trashing all of these good schools. Maybe their kid can't get in

NYU just gets wayyyy overhyped, though. And it's as close to a scam as you can get in higher ed (at least within the top tier).

Both of major NYC schools, Columbia and NYU, are wayyy overhyped because of their location. Both are fine schools; one or the other has a good USNWR rating year now and then, which encourages their respective boosters but doesn’t seem to change admitted students’ minds.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure where all of the duke hate is coming from

Right thinking individuals.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

Both are terribly overrated, as evidenced by their need to define themselves as the "Harvard of" anything.

Vanderbilt and Duke are not overrated or latecomers. As for Vanderbilt (because I know it best), it’s been ranked as a Top 25 at least since 1963 and has been a USNWR Top 25 college almost since inception (dating to the early 1980s).

It's a Toop 25 but it and its boosters act like it's a Top 10.

PP didn’t say Vandy was 25, but that it’s been in the Top 25 for decades. For the past decade it’s been more like 15. No one claims Vandy is Top 10. That said, many boosters of the Top 10 can’t seem to admit that Vanderbilt is a great school. Instead, they claim that Vanderbilt played the rankings game. Putting aside the notion that ALL schools try to maximize their ranking, moving to 15 from 25 over 40 years is hardly a shot to the top. To the contrary, it suggests steady progress.

Vanderbilt is a great school. Also, more people need to realize that with more top stats kids applying to the same schools and frequently the same programs, they can’t all attend HPYSM. Thus, ivy-wannabes are trickling down to schools ranked 5-15/20. Consequently, Vanderbilt and other similarly ranked schools now have student and admission profiles similar to those of the very best schools. This is driving students and their parents to see these somewhat lower-ranked schools as essentially Ivy-quality.

Funny because Cornell students can't even get into Vanderbilt anymore.

Lol. This is not true.

Very true

https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Cornell+University&with=Vanderbilt+University

62% of students pick Cornell, only 38% for Vanderbilt.

Parchment is not reliable, but 60/40 sounds about right.

I think this is more about the fact that most Northeast college students prefer to stay in the Northeast, closer to home. And a huge number of college students are from the Northeast.

I guess. But hard to imagine visiting both in February and choosing Cornell.

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

Experience.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought Vandy was the Harvard of the south

I thought Duke is the Harvard of the South lol

You’re confused. Harvard is the Vandy of the North. Duke is a remote campus of Rutgers.