<p>I'm having a difficult time deciding between these two (my only two options, assuming I don't get off the waitlist at U of Chicago); I just visited Boston U and liked it, and will be visiting Case in a few days.</p>
<p>My dilemma, though, is something like this. I am fairly convinced that Case is overall a better college, but it is on a whole more geared toward science, engineering and the like, and I'm sure I'm going to be studying in the social sciences, probably political science, and/or history, so I'm a little skeptical of the quality of Case's departments in those areas.</p>
<p>Boston, on the other hand, has, from what I understand, more emphasis on my areas of interest than Case, yet I think it may be overall academically inferior to case.</p>
<p>I also liked Boston's campus a lot, but Case is local and may be a little cheaper.</p>
<p>I'm interested in anyone's thoughts on the matter. Also, on a less relevant note, my visit to Boston has revived an inferiority complex I seem to have about college. Being surrounded by Harvard, MIT, BC, Tufts, only makes me question whether I'm damned to mediocrity having failed to get into one of the "elite" schools. I'd really like to know, all the relativist crap being put aside, if I really can get as good of an education in my preferred areas at BU or Case as I could've at, say, U of Chicago or another "top" school. As of yet, no one has surely convinced me I can. Just from reading alumni and faculty lists on wikipedia, it seems almost every greatly successful scholar in my fields came out of Harvard or Yale or Chicago and so on, and I'm starting to despair.</p>