Killer Rankings

Score!

We can say we're a Top 20 school and not lie about it anymore!

Technically, we're one of the best twenty schools in the country. More accurately, we're one of the three twentieth-bests.

There's nothing like sliding in just underneath the tag. "Basically Top 20" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. "Top 20" on the other hand, says you're a pretty good school, according to the rankings, even if you are, according to the rankings, just barely one of the pretty good schools.

I'm just glad the whole SGA thing didn't end up dropping us in the rankings. The last time such a violent transfer of power occurred in Mexico, the country dropped from 1 to 12 in the "Countries Where You Spring Break" rankings, a catastrophe from which we're yet to recover.

I mean, there are non-quantifiable (and therefore non-rank-able, in theory) aspects to consider. For instance, the Craigslist Killer. He's a BU med student. But just because he's a med student doesn't mean the university as a whole is taint-free. While I know that med students and law students don't mix -- mostly because they regards us as that asshole shark who will try to kill them every time they try to save a life -- people are going around saying, "ooh, the killer went to BU med."

To some this is a detriment. To others, it's a great story to tell at a bar. "Ooh, I used to know a guy who killed somebody ... Somehow I always knew ... Sure you can touch me."

I guess this has nothing to do for the rankings, and it was a pretty piss-poor transition. In any case, the portion of the BU brochure that says "Meet Interesting People!" just took on a whole new meaning.