I go to Georgetown and know fellow hoyas that considered options like northeastern and tufts as well they’re all really great schools! Some even turned down Harvard and Yale it’s really not about the name it’s about where you truly fit in and are offered the best resources.
YES! i love this!! i’m a rising junior and i’ve been looking at a lot of top schools and been struggling with the fact that nearly all of the schools i like are extreme reaches (i.e princeton, columbia) and i also agree so much i wish people knew more about tufts!!! i knew nothing about it when i went to visit and absolutely fell in love with it.
"UC Berkeley is known as a hard STEM school" Berkeley is the only University to have a top 10 US ranking for every department. Berkeley is elite at everything, not just stem. Languages, literature, philosophy, business, law, social sciences. . . Not only that, but a major thing that makes Berkeley distinct is the social and political culture. I'd recommend Reed in that regard.
I would personally add oberlin as a similar school to brown, they have a liberal arts focus, their curriculum is pretty open and flexible, and they are liberal, eccentric and artsy like Brown (but probably more so)
It's super selective but still underrated! However, I mentioned the school briefly, but I meant more so to consider the rest of the Claremonts which aren't as selective
@Tito Adesanya even the worst at anything in the top 15 in the country is still better than most places. They're not going to be the best at everything 😹
I have been watching your videos for the past couple of months, and I love all of your content. I don’t ever comment, but I thought this video was a genius idea. All the information was extremely helpful. I hope you have a wonderful year at Dartmouth.
Im going to Colgate! Also I think a good sub for some of those engineering schools is university of Illinois. I think some of these substitutions might not be safety schools for everyone lol. Great vid!
I'm not going to say my exact stats but I would say that Colgate really considers a unique and well thought out essay, and a high test score because my GPA wasn't strong at all but all the people I know who are going to Colgate had really good essays that a lot of the time had to do with social justice issues, and ACT scores in the high 30s. (usually between a 32 and 35) hope this helps!
Georgetown University is also comparable to UChicago and Columbia, it has a well-rounded core curriculum with access to a metropolitan city in Washington DC.
If you're considering Auburn or University of Alabama at Huntsville as an alternative STEM school to Stanford or MIT, you're much better off at Georgia Institute of Technology, which is on every top ten STEM school list.
@pandaangry1267 Sorry, couldn't help it, got all exicited. But, you're right, it doesn't fit into the "underrated" category. ☆ _But I'd like to amend my comment, nonetheless. GT is on the _*_top 5 list_*_ of great STEM schools-and it has a top-rated quant MS degree, Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF)._ Sorry, can't control myself, I just love GT.
NC State is an excellent engineering school with a lot of sports culture and a city campus. They're definitely one to consider, and they are also in a consortium with UNC and Duke where they all share resources. As for Wake Forest, I actually toured Wake Forest and Duke and I definitely preferred Wake. The academics are just as good, and you don't get a slit-your-throat vibe. Wake also has a great study abroad program, so that's another thing to consider as well. TL;DR NC State is good for engineering, Wake Forest and Duke are basically the same academically
Cal Poly is a great engineering and architecture school! Also, it's a great career focused school because you are in major specific classes from day 1 and they emphasize hands on labs. (you have to choose a major coming in)
idk why I didn't put this in cal poly slo is great esp for engineering/architecture! also it's relatively cheap out of state like even tho it doesn't give financial aid, the total cost of attendance i think is 35k/year (including room+board)
I’m from New England so anytime you listed these bigger schools like northeastern I wondered why they were categorized as “lesser known”, other than that great video!
I mean people know about them but they don't know why they should apply to them u feel like if I didn't do a lot of research/have good friends going to Northeastern I never would've known about the co-op program
I went to Princeton. You can't double major is because every student has to write a senior thesis (basically an undergraduate version of a PhD dissertation). We don't have a med school or law school, so the education is very undergrad focused.
St. John’s College is also extremely easy to get into (80% acceptance rate), so it’s a great safety school :) Coming from somebody who lives 10 minutes away from the Annapolis, MD campus, it’s a really good liberal arts school who only has a high acceptance rate because very few people actually apply.
You don't know how much this helps, really. Thank you (Simultaneously sharing this video with friends)!! 💛 And your quick talking is totally fine. Maybe because I hate listening to the "likes" and "ums" in between speech lol. Keep it up :)
i put so much time trying to cut those words out haha (and i am now incapable of watching any video under 1.5x speed) be sure to check out my part 2 with safety schools!
Penn is definitely pre-professional, but a LOT of people pursue more than one major. There are even dual-degree programs across the four undergraduate schools
omg YES this is exactly the vid i needed but didn't know how to put into words!! not getting into my dream schools is obviously a huge fear but i keep trying to breathe and remind myself that it's okay no matter what happens; feeling like i have comparable back up options is a huge help
I always thought that Princeton is the polar opposite to UPenn. UPenn is really business heavy while Princeton doesn't even have a business (as well as med and law) school. Princeton seems very not career-oriented.
i would add hampshire college to the brown list, it's super hippy dippy liberal; it's study exactly what you want, no majors, no grades, no tests. it had the most open curriculum/unique approach to higher education of any college i really was exposed to. at hampshire education is focused on personalized, independent work in collaboration with faculty, and hands-on experiences (study abroad, field studies, internships, volunteer work, advanced independent projects). really really cool school and would totally recommend to any independent, driven, bold high schoolers looking for something off the beaten path. not to mention they don't accept test scores as a method of admissions (so if you're concerned about your standardized test scores) & the acceptance rate is like 70% or something crazy like that.
I actually commented that somewhere in pt. 2 with the safety schools because I forgot to include it (again lol)! but yes great school and i forgot bc it didn't show up on any rankings lists really so i totally forgot about it until i finished filming
yea it doesn't get put on many ranking lists (despite it being a great school, imo) because they don't consider standardized test scores in admissions.
I’m going to Case Western next year and I completely agree with putting it as an alternative to Berkeley as an engineering/stem heavy school. I was expecting to see it as an alternative to Johns Hopkins tho because I’ve met sooooooo many pre med & nursing students and as a nursing major its relationship with the Cleveland Clinic definitely adds lots of appeal to students going into the medical field. Still a really accurate list tho
Hi! I'm a current high school senior who was pre-admitted into Case Western and received a half-tuition scholarship and was wondering what the pros and cons were about this school! I have been deciding whether or not I want to commit to this school and wanted to get your perspective as a possible current student there! I am curious about grading/class rigor/academic competition vs. collaboration, social culture, the number of realistic research opportunities, stress/balancing schoolwork, school population attractiveness (I've heard that everyone looks mid lol), dorms, dining halls, and clubs in general. Thanks!
well done! Creative topic and very accurate from what I know about schools. I particularly liked info on University of Utah in-state tuition deal. I can see a similar survey of European universities, also Canadian. Other excellent schools that can be mentioned: University of Texas, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State. U Cal, San Diego also first rate alternative as is UNC, Chapel Hill.
I’m highkey triggered by some of these “easier” schools to get into because I got into a number of the top school including NYU and BU and got waitlisted from GW. That really triggered me because I liked the fact that it is like NYU/BU but in DC. 🤦🏾♀️ I’m not mad or anything I was just confused when it happened but the college admissions process is crazy on its own
This list is spot on! UCLA would be my dream school but very selective and I ended up getting into Lehigh and I plan on going for their Engineering school!
Great video as always! I heard that Penn has a lot of undergraduates who enter coordinated duel-degree programs or choose to double major. Not sure if this is true but they are my dream schools!
I can't seem to find the statistic anymore of the percentage of students who double major at penn (page looks like it was moved), but I do remember that it's a smaller proportion of students who do compared to other schools But yes there is the option to do dual degree programs! They're super competitive to get into though
I graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, and it was a fantastic experience, intellectually and socially. One of the best liberal arts colleges in the country.
Go to community college for 2 years, then transfer to the cheapest state school near your home. Work hard and get good grades. You will be far ahead financially over your friends who drank the Kollege Kool-Aid and got suckered into $200,00 of student debt. Trust me as one who took the smart money route. After 5 or more years out of college, nobody gives a tinker's damn where you went to college. The documented experience on your resume' vastly overshadows your academic credentials.
Honestly, Duke is more of a Penn and Princeton vibe than Vandy and Dartmouth. I understand the school spirit thing, but it seems that the most criteria you are basing this on which is not accurate
I've never thought this would be on my page but I enjoyed a different perspective on college from a more positive point of view. I'd prefer my cuny school for money purposes but to each their own.
RPI is a direct copy of MIT in the most ironic way you can imagine. The fact is MIT was structured and created to emulate RPI when it was first founded. RPI was the first polytechnic university in the united states in 1824. When MIT was founded it was hoping to copy RPI in every way and somehow through reputation and it's great location in the middle of Boston Massachusettes, it became more well known. RPI on the otherhand had always been in a bad neighborhood in Troy NY which lends to prospective applications choosing other accepted offers when given the option. RPI's rigor is still live and well and having two sons graduating from there I honestly don't think they would have gotten their Faang jobs or salary if they went anywhere else.
Saint Joesph's University is another very good school! My brother goes there for International Business, and he really loves it. It's right outside of Philly (literally. One side of the street is Philly and the other is Lower Merion) so it's an urban neighborhood but it's not loud or anything. The campus is beautiful as well. I'd recommend it to anyone!
I would personally have put Tulane in the Duke/Dartmouth/Vanderbilt bin... in that you should be applying to Wake Forest, Colgate or CMC if Tulane (ca. 10% acceptance rate post-pandemic) is your dream school (provided you're out-of-state at Tulane; while private, in-state status counts for quite a bit at Tulane)
If you are going to consider Purdue, you should also consider UIUC. Similarly ranked in engineering and computer science albeit with slightly higher tuition than Purdue.
Dartmouth, Colgate and UCLA are the toughest on my list... US Military Academy ended up 100% match on my college board buttttt I don't think I'm planning to head that path. Some like UTexas seems too far from me and I've always been attached to Amherst... BUT DARTMOUTH IS #1 AHHHH
