Anonymous
09/20/2022 20:31
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of them after the top 50 are under-rated.
Most colleges are great places with excellent teaching, and every college is perfect for someone.
Don't be afraid to seek them out and measure them up against the students goals.
Agree. The whole rating system creates a false devaluing of schools, especially regional schools. It's a huge country with a lot of colleges. Ranking them is a silly exercise.
Ranking is useful when there are a lot of colleges like 2500+
Thanks to the information, my three kids found great schools fit them well.
The choice isn't ranking vs. nothing. I very much prefer the Princeton Review approach that selects under 400 schools it considers strong and then rates schools on a variety of features, and gives qualitative description of the schools. This helps people find a "good" school on the aspects they care about without getting into this horse race mentality that where one school is ten spots above another because they have 1% more research grant funding and 1% more Pell grant recipients or whatever--distinctions that matter so little about whether the school will be a good fit for your student.
What about other 2100 schools
Those were ranked lower and eliminated.
You were interested in top 400 schools.
My kids were interested in top 50 schools.
But the PR doesn't think there are top 50 schools--or doesn't orient that way. They list them in alphabetical order not by their average rating. You can look at what is highest rated on the variables that interest you rather than thinking that you can identify a precise order among institutions that are very different from one another. The schools that are included (the number varies--it's 388 right now I think) are all the ones that meet their benchmark. It's a different philosophy and method than rank-ordering, it's benchmarking for inclusion and then rating.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 20:07
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of them after the top 50 are under-rated.
Most colleges are great places with excellent teaching, and every college is perfect for someone.
Don't be afraid to seek them out and measure them up against the students goals.
Agree. The whole rating system creates a false devaluing of schools, especially regional schools. It's a huge country with a lot of colleges. Ranking them is a silly exercise.
Ranking is useful when there are a lot of colleges like 2500+
Thanks to the information, my three kids found great schools fit them well.
The choice isn't ranking vs. nothing. I very much prefer the Princeton Review approach that selects under 400 schools it considers strong and then rates schools on a variety of features, and gives qualitative description of the schools. This helps people find a "good" school on the aspects they care about without getting into this horse race mentality that where one school is ten spots above another because they have 1% more research grant funding and 1% more Pell grant recipients or whatever--distinctions that matter so little about whether the school will be a good fit for your student.
What about other 2100 schools
Those were ranked lower and eliminated.
You were interested in top 400 schools.
My kids were interested in top 50 schools.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 19:56
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Why do you think a 41% acceptance rate means a school is “overrated”? If no one wants to go there, how can it be overrated?
Anonymous
09/20/2022 19:55
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of them after the top 50 are under-rated.
Most colleges are great places with excellent teaching, and every college is perfect for someone.
Don't be afraid to seek them out and measure them up against the students goals.
Agree. The whole rating system creates a false devaluing of schools, especially regional schools. It's a huge country with a lot of colleges. Ranking them is a silly exercise.
Ranking is useful when there are a lot of colleges like 2500+
Thanks to the information, my three kids found great schools fit them well.
The choice isn't ranking vs. nothing. I very much prefer the Princeton Review approach that selects under 400 schools it considers strong and then rates schools on a variety of features, and gives qualitative description of the schools. This helps people find a "good" school on the aspects they care about without getting into this horse race mentality that where one school is ten spots above another because they have 1% more research grant funding and 1% more Pell grant recipients or whatever--distinctions that matter so little about whether the school will be a good fit for your student.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 19:48
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of them after the top 50 are under-rated.
Most colleges are great places with excellent teaching, and every college is perfect for someone.
Don't be afraid to seek them out and measure them up against the students goals.
Agree. The whole rating system creates a false devaluing of schools, especially regional schools. It's a huge country with a lot of colleges. Ranking them is a silly exercise.
Ranking is useful when there are a lot of colleges like 2500+
Thanks to the information, my three kids found great schools fit them well.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 17:13
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Pretty much all of them after the top 50 are under-rated.
Most colleges are great places with excellent teaching, and every college is perfect for someone.
Don't be afraid to seek them out and measure them up against the students goals.
Agree. The whole rating system creates a false devaluing of schools, especially regional schools. It's a huge country with a lot of colleges. Ranking them is a silly exercise.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 16:12
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Yes. Students who need merit money will turn down URochester not because they don't want to go, but because they can't afford to do so.
Yield is also below 20%.
Kids don't want that school.
What happended to the school?
Yield rates have been going down for a lot of schools because students are applying to so many colleges via Common App. They are only going up for schools that are in the tippy top and those who heavily use ED.
Adding: And for less-expensive in-state public schools.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 16:01
Subject: Underrated schools
DP. Agree Rochester is underrated. Rigorous and intense, but excellent.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 15:55
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Yield is also below 20%.
Kids don't want that school.
What happended to the school?
Yield rates have been going down for a lot of schools because students are applying to so many colleges via Common App. They are only going up for schools that are in the tippy top and those who heavily use ED.
Adding: And for less-expensive in-state public schools.
anyways the school is overrated at #36 on USN&WR with all these number.
Compare it to the same ranked Boston College and lower ranked schools like Georgia Tech, Northeastern, BostonU, Tulane.
Overrated.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 15:36
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Yield is also below 20%.
Kids don't want that school.
What happended to the school?
Yield rates have been going down for a lot of schools because students are applying to so many colleges via Common App. They are only going up for schools that are in the tippy top and those who heavily use ED.
Adding: And for less-expensive in-state public schools.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 15:35
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Yield is also below 20%.
Kids don't want that school.
What happended to the school?
Yield rates have been going down for a lot of schools because students are applying to so many colleges via Common App. They are only going up for schools that are in the tippy top and those who heavily use ED.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 15:14
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Yield is also below 20%.
Kids don't want that school.
What happended to the school?
Anonymous
09/20/2022 15:01
Subject: Underrated schools
Check out the ranking at the end of this essay.
https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/
It's based on different factors than US News, Forbes, etc., and some surprising (apparently underrated) names show up near the top. The Claremont colleges do particularly well. So do women's colleges, and universities located in warmer climates.
https://lesshighschoolstress.com/blog/
It's based on different factors than US News, Forbes, etc., and some surprising (apparently underrated) names show up near the top. The Claremont colleges do particularly well. So do women's colleges, and universities located in warmer climates.
Anonymous
09/20/2022 15:00
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?
41% acceptance rate LOL
https://usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-rochester-2894/applying
This school should be ranked in the 50s
Anonymous
09/20/2022 14:50
Subject: Underrated schools
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:University of Rochester
RPI
Rhodes College
Bucknell
Santa Clara
University of Rochester is severely overrated
Based on what?