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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

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.[/quote]
What are bizarre post. First you insinuate that the only schools called 'overrated' are schools that the person themselves didn't get into. You think that everyone's kids is getting into Harvard, Cal Tech, MIT, Berkeley here? If not, why aren't they being overrated?

And yes Cal Tech is on par with MIT, which makes it better than Harvard in [b]academic rigor[/b][/quote]

CalTech used to be a vocational school until it came to money. First thing it did was to buy prestige from academic power houses like Oberlin and Columbia. [b]It’s a vocational school [/b]that’s Maybe two Notches above universities such as Cal State that caters to blue collar families. [/quote]

Wrong!
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Is Astrophysics a good vocation?  How does its prospects compare to plumbing?  Pipe fitting?  How about Bioengineering?  Is that kind of like carpentry?  [/quote]

I said it used to be a vocational school. This is a fact. That’s it’s pedigree. And it shows. [/quote]

It was... but it hasn't been since 1910. You area little behind the times.

Oh, and so was MIT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
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Wiki says MIT was a polytechnic school in the European tradition. CalTech was a local vocational school, not a European polytechnic university. 
Pay scale ROI ranks CalTech at #10, just few notches above California Maritime, part of the Cal State system. Its literally a notch above Cal State schools.

https://www.payscale.com/college-roi

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The top 10 in ROI are free schools (the academies), specialist schools, and MIT, Harvey Mudd, and Caltech.  Caltech is ranked above Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, etc. . .  You actually thought this was going to help you make your case?[/quote]

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