So it would seem BU is positioned in the new US News rankings, assuming the item linked here is legit.
That would constitute a slight tumble, since we were #20 last year, but it's probably not too bad given that there were some methodological adjustments that were expected to give us some difficulty. I would nonetheless expect BU to continue its general upward rise over the next few years, particularly to the extent that the rankings include a measure of general esteem for the school. It was interesting how when we suddenly turned up at #20 no one really seemed to find it all that shocking. For that reason, I suspect we'll be back.
(Of course, please note that these rankings are still tremendously methodologically suspect, to say nothing of completely worthless. But as long as they exist, we can have some fun peripherally acknowledging them, especially when it seems to be in our interest to do so. As far as I can tell hypocrisy isn't one of the categories measured anyway...)
Edit 3/31: OK, we really are #22.