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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are you arriving at the conclusion that Bowdoin is a step above? Teaching--it's ranked #5. Study abroad--nothing outstanding that i know of. Facilities--food and dorms--I agree are very good. [/quote]

It's not a step above or down from Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore.

These are all virtually the same school in this day and age. Same student body, same outcomes, similar financial resources, similar experiences, etc.

In fact, Bowdoin has by far the largest yield of the bunch- or any of the top 10 LACs for that matter. Even accounting for ED rates.

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None of the schools in the top bucket of the USNWR rankings are meaningly different form each other. The academic profiles are very similar and at this point in time the differences in rankings are driven mostly by endowment size.

Peer assessment also drives the rankings and this promotes consistency as well because nobody can actually explain why any of the top schools are meaningfully different than each other so inertia is the rule.

People who think that any of these schools are better than the others are just fooling themselves.[/quote]

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