Top 10 versus Top 25

Marian
Wed, 20 May 2009 07:13:25 +0000

I don’t think that the quality of education is all that different.

If, as I suspect, your tastes run to a college somewhere in the 20s, I don’t think you should feel obligated to apply to other schools with higher rankings simply because of the rankings. There can be excellent reasons – specific programs, location, cost, campus “feel,” etc. – for preferring Carnegie-Mellon or Georgetown or UVA, for example, over Princeton or Harvard.