<p>Rabid cheerleaders?! BULLYING?! RUBBISH!!! (The “rubbish” I spouted comprises of 4 objective rankings, and the statements of one JHU rep on CC) Your ad hominem remarks are precisely the trademark of those very “rabid cheerleaders” you so vehemently oppose… And did you even read my conclusion?!
Just in case you didn’t:
Translation: go with fit. Pretty much EXACTLY what you advised.</p>
<p>And please prove your statement about the two colleges being academic peers. I can cite dozens of rankings, peer assessments, statistics (and did to a small extent). I’d like to see this “myriad”. I have no doubt that JHU is far better in med, and there are perhaps a few other fields where it may be superior, but myriad is far too extreme a term to use, especially following the statement “JHU is absolutely a peer of Chicago”…</p>
<p>In fact, my previous post was a response to Goldenoy’s post. His sentiments are that it is “ridiculous” to suggest that UChicago is a better school than JHU, when in fact, it is a perfectly justifiable opinion. </p>
<p>Also, let there be no doubts in anyone’s minds. I think JHU is an absolutely fantastic school, easily a top 15 school, (THE top in a few fields; Maths and Stats aren’t one of them) but IMO UChicago is second to none in providing an excellent undergraduate education. In fields like mathematics, it is considered on par with schools like MIT and Harvard. As I mentioned in my previous post, this doesn’t apply to applied maths. </p>
<p>PS: Just to clarify a matter of semantics. What do you define as a peer colleges. Maybe its just that our definitions of peers are disjoint.</p>