The quality of the quotes goes way up for Drexel and Harvey Mudd -- I wonder if some alumni on the Radar staff couldn't resist a little articulate bashing of their alma mater.
Drexel doesn't belong on here either. They've obviously never actually visited these places, and just copied them from old issues of Princeton Review.
That photo isn't Drexel's campus, the smoke stack isn't even near campus and is just part of an old incinerator in Philadelphia. You can't see it from campus unless you're on a high floor of a high rise dorm/building.
There are hundreds of trees and grassy areas, and the "rape garden" is not even the only garden on campus.
Drexel blends right in with its Ivy League neighbor, University of Pennsylvania; there's no distinction between their campuses, they just run right into eachother.
Drexel is ranked among the top 100 national universities by US News & World, and in the top 10 of their most innovative list. I'm an alumni, who still lives within walking distance of campus, and this just makes me angry.
I see your point, IT schools aren't for everyone. I visited the campus when I was looking for schools and didn't much like it, but it is a great school for engineering. My brother went to NJIT and it also is in a horrible area, but picking a college isn't about how good the gardener is.
I agree, prospective students should be concerned with more than the skill of the gardener. However, there's nothing like some beautiful landscaping to seal the deal on a campus tour.
It wouldn't show up on a list of worst schools by multiple criteria, but I think that section of the article is just about the appearance of the campus.
No, Harvey Mudd (or Harvard Med if you say it really fast and jumble it) is not bad at all. It has in fact, one point, the highest national merit scholar semi-finalists by class percentage in the country. It's basically the school for Caltech rejects (which I guess, from one perspective, does make it a pretty sobering place, no pun intended).
