What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Notre Dame. People here are insane about that school and its... fine. I have met many ND grads at work and socially and they run the gamut -- basically the same intellectually and socially as any smallish liberal arts college. They are indistinct from, say, JMU grads or people from state universities. Not a bad school, not a great school. Good alumni network though.

But the way people from around here who either went to ND or whose kids go, you'd think it was an Ivy or impossible to get into. It's especially weird when you're talking about grads of private Catholic high schools, since ND recruits aggressively from such schools and it's an obvious feed. Again, nothing against ND but it's not Yale or Harvard, and people absolutely talk about it like it is. It's embarrassing.

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The craziest, cringiest, most embarrassing for her Facebook post I have seen in my life was posted by a mom I know of the "moment" her son got into ND this year. I can't even describe it, but it was all about her--fist-pumping, screaming, while the boy sits in the background looking like he's on another planet. I mean, I know the kid probably worked very hard for that acceptance, but for one, it seemed to be much more her moment than his, and moreover, her excitement just didn't fit with the acceptance. It wasn't Princeton.

Catholic school valedictorians often don't apply to Ivies. ND is their no. 1.

And? This is a meaningless metric in terms of the school’s quality. “Catholic school grads prefer Catholic university with massive Catholic student population.” All this indicates is that many Catholic school grads seek out familiar, comfortable college environments where they will be members of the dominant cultural group. Cool?

I heard they have really conservative rules like, you can't be in the opposite gender dorm after a certain time at night. And other things like that that most students would find oppressive. Is that true? If so, I really don't think it's a great place to go to college, a time when you're supposed to be exploring Life and getting into a little bit of good trouble. Idk.

Opposite sex dorm visit policy is 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday nights and midnight on Sunday through Thursday nights.
There are good women only schools that I would not recommend my daughters. I would my daughter to get mingled with the opposite sex daily.
So I think it's a good compromise for good educational environment for my daughter.
Nothing is oppressive.
My daughters don't need to get into trouble with drinking, drug, sex, etc. to explore life and learn.
Good luck with yours.

Right, or you could just believe that your daughters are adults that deserve independence and autonomy, and that college would be a perfect setting to get used to that. But you know, different strokes for different folks.

Becoming an adults, it starts with following little bit of rules, regulations and set forth by authorities such as no drinking until age of 21(nation) or no opposite sex visit after 12am/2am(school). These are all decent rules, and I hope my daughter follow the rules. She's independent and I'm going to be there to monitor it.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

I see that the OP of the Vanderbilt hater thread has shown up. Please see pages 12 and 13 of that thread for revelations about this guy.

The alternative ranking below popped up on another thread the other day. It's interesting to see which US News top schools are still on top even when totally different criteria are used. Vanderbilt is the #3 national university, behind Northwestern and Penn.

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

I see that the OP of the Vanderbilt hater thread has shown up. Please see pages 12 and 13 of that thread for revelations about this guy.

The alternative ranking below popped up on another thread the other day. It's interesting to see which US News top schools are still on top even when totally different criteria are used. Vanderbilt is the #3 national university, behind Northwestern and Penn.

Oops, here's the link!

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/6/

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

I see that the OP of the Vanderbilt hater thread has shown up. Please see pages 12 and 13 of that thread for revelations about this guy.

The alternative ranking below popped up on another thread the other day. It's interesting to see which US News top schools are still on top even when totally different criteria are used. Vanderbilt is the #3 national university, behind Northwestern and Penn.

Oops, here's the link!

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/6/

I can come up with an alternate ranking where my kid's school is #1 LOL

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

I see that the OP of the Vanderbilt hater thread has shown up. Please see pages 12 and 13 of that thread for revelations about this guy.

The alternative ranking below popped up on another thread the other day. It's interesting to see which US News top schools are still on top even when totally different criteria are used. Vanderbilt is the #3 national university, behind Northwestern and Penn.

Which ranking are you referring to?

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Notre Dame. People here are insane about that school and its... fine. I have met many ND grads at work and socially and they run the gamut -- basically the same intellectually and socially as any smallish liberal arts college. They are indistinct from, say, JMU grads or people from state universities. Not a bad school, not a great school. Good alumni network though.

But the way people from around here who either went to ND or whose kids go, you'd think it was an Ivy or impossible to get into. It's especially weird when you're talking about grads of private Catholic high schools, since ND recruits aggressively from such schools and it's an obvious feed. Again, nothing against ND but it's not Yale or Harvard, and people absolutely talk about it like it is. It's embarrassing.

+10,000

The craziest, cringiest, most embarrassing for her Facebook post I have seen in my life was posted by a mom I know of the "moment" her son got into ND this year. I can't even describe it, but it was all about her--fist-pumping, screaming, while the boy sits in the background looking like he's on another planet. I mean, I know the kid probably worked very hard for that acceptance, but for one, it seemed to be much more her moment than his, and moreover, her excitement just didn't fit with the acceptance. It wasn't Princeton.

Catholic school valedictorians often don't apply to Ivies. ND is their no. 1.

Not in my experience. But, on a related note, in many parts of the South, Vanderbilt will trump Harvard. Where Ivy grads are viewed with suspicion and "otherness," Vandy grads are lauded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

I see that the OP of the Vanderbilt hater thread has shown up. Please see pages 12 and 13 of that thread for revelations about this guy.

The alternative ranking below popped up on another thread the other day. It's interesting to see which US News top schools are still on top even when totally different criteria are used. Vanderbilt is the #3 national university, behind Northwestern and Penn.

Oops, here's the link!

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/6/

I can come up with an alternate ranking where my kid's school is #1 LOL

Where does your kid go?

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UVA

Duke

Swarthmore (just not an appealing/healthy culture)

NYU

Dartmouth (toxic masculinity)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt

I see that the OP of the Vanderbilt hater thread has shown up. Please see pages 12 and 13 of that thread for revelations about this guy.

The alternative ranking below popped up on another thread the other day. It's interesting to see which US News top schools are still on top even when totally different criteria are used. Vanderbilt is the #3 national university, behind Northwestern and Penn.

Vanderbilt is trending up. It might become a top 10 university in 10 years. Smart rich kids love Vanderbilt. Nashville is a fun, mild climate boom town. I'd much rather be in Vanderbilt's shoes than cold climate middle of nowhere Big Ten universities, dangerous UChicago, and boring suburbs of Chicago Northwestern.

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I attended a Catholic HS in DE - our valedictorian went to Princeton. I only know a couple kids who applied to ND. One of the top 10 went to Villanova. A couple went to St Joe's

I think it depends how Catholic the student body is of the school. Most of us were at our HS because the academics were very good. The religion was an afterthought.

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Who woke up the anti-Chicago troll?

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Anonymous wrote:I attended a Catholic HS in DE - our valedictorian went to Princeton. I only know a couple kids who applied to ND. One of the top 10 went to Villanova. A couple went to St Joe's

I think it depends how Catholic the student body is of the school. Most of us were at our HS because the academics were very good. The religion was an afterthought.

Yup it would be so dumb to think that all Catholics are created equal.
There's a huge spectrum and different degrees of Catholics.

My kid chose ND because of the overall education and program strength.
She's careless about the religious side.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame. Notre Dame. Notre Dame. People here are insane about that school and its... fine. I have met many ND grads at work and socially and they run the gamut -- basically the same intellectually and socially as any smallish liberal arts college. They are indistinct from, say, JMU grads or people from state universities. Not a bad school, not a great school. Good alumni network though.

But the way people from around here who either went to ND or whose kids go, you'd think it was an Ivy or impossible to get into. It's especially weird when you're talking about grads of private Catholic high schools, since ND recruits aggressively from such schools and it's an obvious feed. Again, nothing against ND but it's not Yale or Harvard, and people absolutely talk about it like it is. It's embarrassing.

+10,000

The craziest, cringiest, most embarrassing for her Facebook post I have seen in my life was posted by a mom I know of the "moment" her son got into ND this year. I can't even describe it, but it was all about her--fist-pumping, screaming, while the boy sits in the background looking like he's on another planet. I mean, I know the kid probably worked very hard for that acceptance, but for one, it seemed to be much more her moment than his, and moreover, her excitement just didn't fit with the acceptance. It wasn't Princeton.

Catholic school valedictorians often don't apply to Ivies. ND is their no. 1.

Not in my experience. But, on a related note, in many parts of the South, Vanderbilt will trump Harvard. Where Ivy grads are viewed with suspicion and "otherness," Vandy grads are lauded.

HAHAHAHA. This might be the most ludicrous comment I’ve seen on DCUM, and that’s saying something.

And I’m from Tennessee. This sure as h*kk ain’t true.

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Anonymous wrote:Whatever school you went to, OP, if this question is any indication of the education you received.

This!

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Anonymous wrote:NYU and Michigan come to mind. Fairly average schools yet they seem to be popular.

Michigan an average school? An average school is not ranked in the top 25 nationally/worldwide and has an endowment of 18 billion.