Overrated schools

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Anonymous wrote:UVA. Why would anyone want to go there?

Same reasons people want to go to any state flagship.

But that assumes UVA is the state flagship

It’s called The University of Virginia for a reason...

Yeah, because a slaveholder defined things. UVA too small to be a flagship. VT, GMU, JMU, ODU and VCU are state supported schools that are larger than UVA.

Virginia Tech has more funded research.

UVA does have the highest Blood Alcohol content of any of those schools (maybe with the exception of JMU).

All kidding aside, UVA is highly ranked because they limit the size -- not for the education received. It is a fine school, but it is highly ranked because of its size: its freshman class is about 4000... there are probably nearly that many worthy kids in graduating from Fairfax County.

If you want it to be the University of Northern Virginia...

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Anonymous wrote:Wash U St. Louis

+1. Dying city, dead center of flyover country, nobody has ever heard of it. I realize it's supposedly a research and pre-med powerhouse, or something, but who really cares?

It’s a beautiful underrated city with great historic neighborhoods and restaurants. Get out of your sh!tshack once in while and see the country you live in.

It's not underrated, it's dying. They just lost their NFL team. Tops in crime. Dollars per capita ranks it 36th, below freaking Buffalo.
https://www.ewgateway.org/despite-steady-growth-st-louis-ranks-low-for-gdp-per-capita/

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Brown, Yale are also heavily overrated in STEM discipline. Dartmouth overrated for everything other than going into investment banking.
But their prestige as Ivies can outweigh whatever academics they may be lacking.

If you are not a troll, you are a massive ignoramus. Have you looked at the STEM faculties for Brown and Yale? Have you looked at the research being done?

You have to let the bitterness go. It makes you look bad.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA. Why would anyone want to go there?

Same reasons people want to go to any state flagship.

But that assumes UVA is the state flagship

It’s called The University of Virginia for a reason...

Yeah, because a slaveholder defined things. UVA too small to be a flagship. VT, GMU, JMU, ODU and VCU are state supported schools that are larger than UVA.

Virginia Tech has more funded research.

UVA does have the highest Blood Alcohol content of any of those schools (maybe with the exception of JMU).

All kidding aside, UVA is highly ranked because they limit the size -- not for the education received. It is a fine school, but it is highly ranked because of its size: its freshman class is about 4000... there are probably nearly that many worthy kids in graduating from Fairfax County.

UMD poster?

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

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CalTech is not at MIT level. It’s a smaller and a very specialized school compared to MIT. It’s pretty much a hi-tech vocational college compared to MIT, Harvard, Yale...

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

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CalTech is not at MIT level. It’s a smaller and a very specialized school compared to MIT. It’s pretty much a hi-tech vocational college compared to MIT, Harvard, Yale...

Well you are not alone in your thinking. There are loads of the uninformed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

Florida institute of tech also thinks it’s on par with CalTech.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

+1000

CalTech is not at MIT level. It’s a smaller and a very specialized school compared to MIT. It’s pretty much a hi-tech vocational college compared to MIT, Harvard, Yale...

Well you are not alone in your thinking. There are loads of the uninformed.

I live in Cali. Cali public colleges are highly rated. San Jose State and Cal State SLO graduates can do as well as CalTech grads.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

Florida institute of tech also thinks it’s on par with CalTech.

I work with a Florida Tech grad...and it's not.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

I think they know they are not on par (I am friends with a former dean there; he was my professor when I first stated college there; I transferred after one year). Florida tech is trying to follow the model of Caltech of focusing on a few areas. They know no one will chose FIT over Caltech. I went there because I was a really crappy student in HS (2.4 GPA, but 1300 SAT's in the early 80's). I left with nearly a 4.0; working much harder at Va Tech, I had a 3.0 GPA.

I will say, though Florida Tech was good to me in that I was able to demonstrate abilities, which allowed me to go to a better (and cheaper) school and then go on to get my Ph.D.

Florida institute of tech also thinks it’s on par with CalTech.

I work with a Florida Tech grad...and it's not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

Florida institute of tech also thinks it’s on par with CalTech.

I work with a Florida Tech grad...and it's not.

Check out the chronicle interactive. I am only quoting what Florida Tech thinks its peer is - CalTech.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

Florida institute of tech also thinks it’s on par with CalTech.

I work with a Florida Tech grad...and it's not.

Check out the chronicle interactive. I am only quoting what Florida Tech thinks its peer is - CalTech.

Every school not at the top list the better schools as there peers. It is how it works.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”

Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc. as overrated, because they've accepted all the kids of every poster here.

Or perhaps you saw a school you are associated as correctly being called overrated.

Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT, let alone Harvard? Other than the occasional booster, people correctly rate Cal Tech and Berkeley a notch or two below the top schools. That's why those two schools are not called overrated.

I do.

So do I. But most importantly, so does MIT.
https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/peers-network

Florida institute of tech also thinks it’s on par with CalTech.

But MIT doesn't think Florida Institute of Tech is a peer. MIT selected: California Inst of Tech, Carnegie Mellon U, Cornell U, Harvard U, Princeton U, Stanford U, Yale U