Overrated schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t spend much time here so I may be missing something, but why is someone from PA on a DC message board?

Mind your own f#<¥ing business!
~Tony in Brooklyn

Well aren’t you sweet to care about something like that!
~Sally Mae in Savannah

You must be a wicked dip$#i+ to ask such a stupid fv<king question.
~Sulli in Dorchester (that’s paht of Boston, the best city in the world, you stupid fv><king piece of $#i+)>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like kids from Stanford and Duke the most - likely to be at least somewhat sociable, and also generally sharp.

+1 best of both worlds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unc, WashU, Ucla, uc’s for out of state.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Schools are overrated to people who didn't get into them.

[Anonymous]

Northeastern.

It might have made some improvements since its recent lowbrow commuter college history, but among all of the many schools in the Boston area, it isn't ever going to shed that downmarket connotation. This isn't even about academic reputation: if Northeastern were a person, it would be a raspy-voiced waitress who chainsmokes and feeds her kids Tater Tots and Mountain Dew.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern.

It might have made some improvements since its recent lowbrow commuter college history, but among all of the many schools in the Boston area, it isn't ever going to shed that downmarket connotation. This isn't even about academic reputation: if Northeastern were a person, it would be a raspy-voiced waitress who chainsmokes and feeds her kids Tater Tots and Mountain Dew.

If anything, it's actually pretty underrated.
It's not just some improvements. All major metrics rival T20 25 schools.

It has a proud history of supporting and providing to working class unlike other schools that have a history of catering to rich Whites if that's what 'commuter college history' means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern.

It might have made some improvements since its recent lowbrow commuter college history, but among all of the many schools in the Boston area, it isn't ever going to shed that downmarket connotation. This isn't even about academic reputation: if Northeastern were a person, it would be a raspy-voiced waitress who chainsmokes and feeds her kids Tater Tots and Mountain Dew.

The best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern.

It might have made some improvements since its recent lowbrow commuter college history, but among all of the many schools in the Boston area, it isn't ever going to shed that downmarket connotation. This isn't even about academic reputation: if Northeastern were a person, it would be a raspy-voiced waitress who chainsmokes and feeds her kids Tater Tots and Mountain Dew.

The best.

This is a serious mental illness.
So sorry for this person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools are overrated to people who didn't get into them.

Bingo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What’s truly overrated is the big push toward third-rate, Deep South public universities. While the institutions are legitimate educational institutions, nobody is impressed by someone attending them.

Wow. This could not be more wrong.

So wrong. Everyone's fed up w the nonsense up north and want nice weather, freedom and not crazy blue state "rules"

[Anonymous]

All LACs are over-rated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All LACs are over-rated.

It's okay to struggle to get in. Happens to a lot of people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern.

It might have made some improvements since its recent lowbrow commuter college history, but among all of the many schools in the Boston area, it isn't ever going to shed that downmarket connotation. This isn't even about academic reputation: if Northeastern were a person, it would be a raspy-voiced waitress who chainsmokes and feeds her kids Tater Tots and Mountain Dew.

I’m being serious. What is wrong with Tater Tots?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern.

It might have made some improvements since its recent lowbrow commuter college history, but among all of the many schools in the Boston area, it isn't ever going to shed that downmarket connotation. This isn't even about academic reputation: if Northeastern were a person, it would be a raspy-voiced waitress who chainsmokes and feeds her kids Tater Tots and Mountain Dew.

I’m being serious. What is wrong with Tater Tots?

That old woman has a serious mental illness.
Ignore.

[Anonymous]

Overrated:

NYU (yuck)

Berkeley (horrible off-campus housing & undergrads rarely benefit from those superstar profs)