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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, OP needs to change the title to, “Schools that rejected both me AND my kids...”[/quote]
Yeah I'm sure that's why no one has posted[b] MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Cal Tech etc[/b]. 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.[/quote]

[b]Who thinks of Cal Tech as on par as MIT[/b], 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.[/quote]

I do.  [/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

I work with a Florida Tech grad...and it's not.[/quote][/quote]

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