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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like the vent diagram is a huge overlap of applicants at wash and rice overlapping, then very few with BC.  Isnt BC a step down from the other two?  I say this as a BU alum, so I am not having an ego… BC is great, but in the 40s, aren’t the other two top 20 or higher pretty consistently?[/quote]

BU would be a step down, but not BC. BU is the one ranked in the 40s. BC was ranked #36.

But seriously, these rankings are meaningless drivel which tell you nothing about the quality of the education that a student receives at any of these schools. The rankings only exist as a means to sell magazines and get hits on line. Don’t fall for illusion that there is really something there worth paying attention to. There isn’t.

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36 v 42… it’s not night and day like when I went there when BC was in the 40s and BU in the 80s/90s.  BU and BC are ranked 42 and 36, functionally the same population and worlds behind top 20.   Rice is 17 and wash u 14.   They’re way above BC.  BC is not way above BU.  [/quote]

My comment was tongue in cheek. I was joking.

But guess what. There’s no difference between 14 and 42. You can get a great education in either place. And innumerable people have. The emphasis on these rankings is completely bonkers.[/quote]

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