Accepted. Want to Attend. Can't. So transfer?

Colm
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:06:57 +0000

@SJUHawk Post #29

Okay, you may not choose to care about the prominent ranking of world universities linked to above. I personally tend to discount rankings where schools are in a reasonable range of each other … however, since you refused to answer the question: Georgetown ranks at 303rd. Cornell stands at 12th. This, IMHO, is way out of any reasonable margin of error, even taking into account certain biases (which all rankings have; none are anywhere near perfect). The way you rant against a great and venerable school smacks of jealousy. I have no quarrel with the OP opting for Georgetown if it is a better financial deal – it’s a good school – but it is clearly, in overall terms, not better than Cornell … not even close.