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

[Anonymous]

Probably Duke

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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.

I mean.. climate change is hitting a lot of cities. Look at Houston today.

But, if you have $$$$ you aren't concerning yourself with BART much.

The real estate prices are crazy because of the demand, which means a lot of people with a lot of money want to live there.

It is not affordable for young people, and this thread is about colleges. California lags in affordable housing.

UC Berkeley and UCLA are the top publics. I doubt that the home ownership stats of their graduates would be anywhere close to the top.

Very true, CA has a hcol, but it doesn't stop oos from applying.

That is a different question from whether they are overrated.

[Anonymous]

UVA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Emory, UVA, UMich.

UMich has like 40% acceptance rate.

I dont get it. Its acceptance rate makes it overrated? BTW the rate is in the teens.

In state ?

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Emory, UVA, UMich.

UMich has like 40% acceptance rate.

I dont get it. Its acceptance rate makes it overrated? BTW the rate is in the teens.

In state ?

IDK. Overall is 18

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Emory, UVA, UMich.

UMich has like 40% acceptance rate.

I dont get it. Its acceptance rate makes it overrated? BTW the rate is in the teens.

In state ?

IDK. Overall is 18

An overrated school would have to have a low acceptance rate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Emory, UVA, UMich.

UMich has like 40% acceptance rate.

I dont get it. Its acceptance rate makes it overrated? BTW the rate is in the teens.

In state ?

In state acceptance is like 40%.
A bunch of mediocre kids from the beat up state.

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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.

I mean.. climate change is hitting a lot of cities. Look at Houston today.

But, if you have $$$$ you aren't concerning yourself with BART much.

The real estate prices are crazy because of the demand, which means a lot of people with a lot of money want to live there.

PP. I have $$$$ and I still believe in public transportation. Real estate prices make for miserable living conditions for young people.

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TJ

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UVA
William & Mary
UMD

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Anonymous wrote:UVA
William & Mary
UMD

Are you a VT supporter?

[Anonymous]

Ole Miss

[Anonymous]

Northeastern and Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern and Tulane.

Unless you get in

[Anonymous]

Northeastern is actually underrated.
It's ranked only 53 when most of the major metrics are at T20 T25 level.

So it's actually "the most underrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd"