Underrated Colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kansas State University.
Arkansas State University.
University of Oklahoma.
South Dakota State University.
North Dakota State University

Seriously some great state colleges with small enough classes, students get enough rigor to last a lifetime.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Earlham
Wooster
Ohio Wesleyan

Haven't seen a good Quaker school mentioned in quite some time! Love Earlham, along with Guilford.

Wooster is truly wonderful. Both Ron Lieber and College Transitions profiled Wooster extensively. We went to visit and loved it! Haven't checked out Ohio Wesleyan but will do so.

Note: Ron Lieber sent his own kid to Yale.

[Anonymous]

We visited a bunch of small engineering schools for my son. I was impressed with Rose-Hulman, South Dakota School of Mines, and Missouri S&T. All three have close to 100% placement rates for grads.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Sewanee super southern in terms of culture? And how about school spirit?

I wouldn't call it "super southern," but it attracts a lot of private school kids from the big southern metros, particularly Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Richmond, Birmingham, Jacksonville, and DFW. Most class years have nearly all 50 states represented, though, plus 15 or more countries. It's more geographically diverse than Rhodes, Furman, or Centre (the southern LACs generally though of as its closest peers).

As for school spirit, it's D3, so the sports scene isn't what you'd find at an SEC school, though the football games are big social events. That said, alumni are insanely loyal to the school and love their alma mater. The alumni giving rate is very high, to the point that it hurt Sewanee in the rankings when USNWR removed it from its formula.

Agree it's a good school but yeah, it is super southern.

No. Wofford is super southern. Birmingham-Southern, before it closed, was super southern. Unlike Sewanee, those schools draw very few students from outside the south (or even the deep south).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We visited a bunch of small engineering schools for my son. I was impressed with Rose-Hulman, South Dakota School of Mines, and Missouri S&T. All three have close to 100% placement rates for grads.

Not much play on DCUM but Missouri S&T is a seriously good engineering school.

[Anonymous]

Sewanee seems to have a major, public racist event every few years which holds it back.

Does it still have a dress code?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kansas State University.
Arkansas State University.
University of Oklahoma.
South Dakota State University.
North Dakota State University

Seriously some great state colleges with small enough classes, students get enough rigor to last a lifetime.

Huh?

yep, SDSU grad in humanities. Had to read 500+ pages for each class every semester and had at least one 25 page per class each semester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sewanee seems to have a major, public racist event every few years which holds it back.

Does it still have a dress code?

It’s never been enforced. Students follow it for tradition sake

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sewanee seems to have a major, public racist event every few years which holds it back.

Does it still have a dress code?

It’s never been enforced. Students follow it for tradition sake

a distinction without a difference.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sewanee seems to have a major, public racist event every few years which holds it back.

Does it still have a dress code?

It’s never been enforced. Students follow it for tradition sake

a distinction without a difference.

Not true. Sewanee has always had a counterculture crowd that disregards class dress. If it were enforced, that wouldn't be allowed to happen.

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Bump. Any more to recommend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We visited a bunch of small engineering schools for my son. I was impressed with Rose-Hulman, South Dakota School of Mines, and Missouri S&T. All three have close to 100% placement rates for grads.

My son is a junior at Missouri S&T and loves it. He has had multiple research opportunities. His professors are accessible and supportive.

[Anonymous]

St. John’s University in NYC (Queens)
I know a lot of successful people who went there

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We visited a bunch of small engineering schools for my son. I was impressed with Rose-Hulman, South Dakota School of Mines, and Missouri S&T. All three have close to 100% placement rates for grads.

My son is a junior at Missouri S&T and loves it. He has had multiple research opportunities. His professors are accessible and supportive.

Missouri S&T is a seriously good engineering school. One of the sharpest guys who I've ever had working for me was a Missouri S&T engineering PhD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Xavier (Ohio). Jesuit tradition, strong business and health schools, excellent student services, friendly and supportive campus culture, Big East basketball, strong alumni network.

Yes. Such a great school!