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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so obvious where people and/or their kids were rejected. What a ridiculous thread.

+1

[Anonymous]

Wash U, UChicago, Emory, Northeastern, Claremont Colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard obviously. But also Duke. This generation of students at both schools is not having a good time.

I have a kid at one of those and they and their friends are having an amazing time. Just because some students are not “having a good time” does not make a school overrated. The point of college is being challenged and learning a lot, not just a “good time”.
I consider a school overrated when people generally think highly of it, but yet academically it is not rigorous compared to other options, and most grads go to midling level jobs with very few pursuing doctoral degrees.
In other words, Virginia Tech.

[Anonymous]

University of Miami. It’s like $80,000.

[Anonymous]

Duke

[Anonymous]

The University of California schools.

[Anonymous]

Duke, UMich. But truly overrated? Northeastern.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown TBH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown TBH.

You’re just a hater

[Anonymous]

Northeastern for sure. GW cause it’s $90.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The University of California schools.

California is a horrid place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of California schools.

California is a horrid place.

Most people would move to CA if they could afford it. If you have a lot of money, it's a great place.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of California schools.

California is a horrid place.

Most people would move to CA if they could afford it. If you have a lot of money, it's a great place.

+1, and I have family and friends there over a broad range of political beliefs, industries, and backgrounds. California is pretty magical. People will grumble about politics and taxes and the traffic and even aspects of the culture, but you cannot beat the weather or the natural beauty. I have lived there before and would go back in a heartbeat of the finances lined up, despite knowing all its many downsides. Whenever I visit, it takes about 12 hours before I wish I live there again (sometimes it happens the minute I get off the plane, if I'm on a pleasure trip to certain destinations).

If my kid wanted to attend and got into a UC school, I'd be thrilled. And many of those schools are really good too (not all). But it's increasingly very, very hard for out of state applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of Miami. It’s like $80,000.

But you get what you pay for

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The University of California schools.

California is a horrid place.

Most people would move to CA if they could afford it. If you have a lot of money, it's a great place.

+1, and I have family and friends there over a broad range of political beliefs, industries, and backgrounds. California is pretty magical. People will grumble about politics and taxes and the traffic and even aspects of the culture, but you cannot beat the weather or the natural beauty. I have lived there before and would go back in a heartbeat of the finances lined up, despite knowing all its many downsides. Whenever I visit, it takes about 12 hours before I wish I live there again (sometimes it happens the minute I get off the plane, if I'm on a pleasure trip to certain destinations).

If my kid wanted to attend and got into a UC school, I'd be thrilled. And many of those schools are really good too (not all). But it's increasingly very, very hard for out of state applicants.

I was born in the Bay Area and now live in flyover country.

It's sunnier there than where I live now but...my valley now has way more sprawl and smog than it did. There is also really bad traffic, the real estate prices are incredibly terrible, San Francisco is grungier, the BART is grungier, my old elementary school in a high-priced neighborhood looks run down, and the weather seems to be getting worse (fires, rain deluges). Objectively, it doesn't look like a great trend.