Brown/UPenn Snooty Boyfriend

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<p>I decided to transfer from Colgate U. to UPenn; I’ll be starting at Penn in the fall. My boyfriend, who’s at Brown was always a wee bit condescending towards me because I was at Colgate (assumably “lesser” than Brown). Now that I’ll be at Penn he’s getting really annoying talking about how Princeton Review pura Brown #4 on its “toughest to get into list” (Penn’s 9), and how Brown’s a better UGrad school than Penn. I thought Penn College was roughlt = to Brown for most things and have resisted the urge to mention all of Penn’s strengths. Is my guy’s bragging justified? What should I do? (I don’t want to sound like I have sour grapes about getting rejected by Brown, Penn was higher on my original list anyway). I’ve asked him to stop, but it keeps coming! HELP!</p>

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<p>Dump your boyfriend. He sounds annoying.</p>

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<p>it is kind of comical that you guys are arguing about this. Like, of all of the things that I have ever discussed with my GF, this stuff has never come up…</p>

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<p>Yeah. I’m thinking you need a new boyfriend too.</p>

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<p>Why would that come up in the first place? Silly…</p>

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<p>So you basically should dump your boyfriend…RIGHT NOW. He seems like a loser :)</p>

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<p>Your boyfriend is an insecure tool</p>

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<p>Either he’s not listening to you or he doesn’t care to be considerate of your feelings. Not good either way. Dump him now.</p>

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<p>Wait til August 18th when the new USNWR comes out and U Penn is well ahead of Brown and you can dump him then with something like Elle from Legally Blonde,</p>

<p>“If I want to be successful in life, I need to get a boyfriend who is not such a complete bonehead.”</p>

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<p>Penn’s already well ahead of Brown in the USNWR rankings–and has been for many years. But I say dump him–there are a lot more fish (and a bigger variety) at Penn.</p>

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<p>Yes, he’s a tool. Lose him.</p>

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<p>Sounds like a nerd to me, unless you can’t do better dump him</p>

<p>US News is one thing, PR is just lame</p>

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<p>ditto (dump his sorry arse)</p>

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<p>Maybe he’s just teasing you?</p>

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<p>but in all honesty, you’d be surprised how insecure a lot of ppl are, including close friends. Let’s face it people–we live in a competitive world. A lot of people have a hard time accepting the fact that their friends/peers/etc. are perceived to be getting ahead while they are not. With my friends, a lot of them were supportive when I got accepted to Penn but I could sense a bunch felt like I didn’t deserve it or that the system (college admissions) failed them and by default, I didn’t deserve my acceptance. You have to just sit back and look at things from the other person’s perspective.</p>

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<p>for all I know, your bf is jealous that Penn has outranked Brown on US News for the last idk 7-8 years. Anyone who resorts to PR’s selectivity ranking needs to reevaulate a few things.</p>

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<p>Hahaha, awesome reply, hawkette. =p</p>

<p>I agree with others, you might want to dump him. But before you do that, you can show him the new US News and some other rankings. NRC ranking (you don’t need to tell him it’s old):</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html[/url]”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And some others:
<a href=“http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm[/url]”>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.toptiered.com/college-rankings.html[/url]”>http://www.toptiered.com/college-rankings.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.wisdomportal.com/TelnetLibraries/TopUSLibraries.html[/url]”>http://www.wisdomportal.com/TelnetLibraries/TopUSLibraries.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.national.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.national.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.universitymetrics.com/tiki-index.php?page=Top+20+Universities+2006&PHPSESSID=a841f8926c4455623742ef5a7d2b1466[/url]”>http://www.universitymetrics.com/tiki-index.php?page=Top+20+Universities+2006&PHPSESSID=a841f8926c4455623742ef5a7d2b1466&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php[/url]”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.paked.net/higher_education/rankings/rankings.htm[/url]”>http://www.paked.net/higher_education/rankings/rankings.htm&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Penn kicks Brown’s ass in just about every ranking, I think. =D</p>

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<p>Or probably your boyfriend in some weird way is trying to get you to not go to Penn; but rather come to Brown</p>

<p>Don’t you think?</p>

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<p>^^ but he knows she was rejected.</p>

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<p>Look, I totally know the type of person who would do that…they’ll be like that with every aspect of life (Hey! I got an A-, what’d you get?..Hey, I’m working for Google, what, your working for Microsoft, ew…Hey, I’m working for Goldman, your working for Bank of America, aww…)</p>

<p>Plus Brown and Penn are like the same school besides the pot/alcohol cleavage. I can’t believe he’s making an issue out of it.</p>