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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is another reason why the US News rankings for publics are bunk: Rutgers with its 66% acceptance rate is not BC, Tufts, or BU, though it is ranked essentially the same. Not. Even. Close.[/quote]

[b]How is this helpful?[/b] Do you think the kids walking around Rutgers paying a fraction of the kids walking around those schools and having a Big 10 experience at their in state flagship R1 school are sad every single day they're not up in Boston? Just stop it. So snobby.[/quote]
It is helpful because some people will look at the US News rankings and assume they can get “something for nothing” by going to Rutgers because it is a similarly-ranked school that they can get into and that costs less. Cost may be a very good reason to attend Rutgers over, say, BC. But let’s not pretend they are equivalent caliber schools.

Boston schools were only mentioned because they surround Rutgers on the rankings. But Rutgers and UMass are very similar schools: Amherst is way nicer than New Brunswick, and, yes, many UMass kids do wish they had gotten into BC.[/quote]

Rutgers does about $700M a year in research and BC is around $100M.   [/quote]

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