Trying to compare Boston Colleges for DC

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Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

Sounds like your boyfriend went to Northeastern, but you didn't get any college education.
Of course every schools has some students live at home. That doesn't make it a so called 'commuter school'.
In general, schools with acceptance rate under 10% is hardly a so called 'commuter school'.
You'll get it when you have college experience.

Actually, I went to MIT. SB, SM.
He withdrew from MIT, worked a bit, went to Northeastern. Was #1 in his class in math dept.

Ok sure MIT grads can also learn new things everyday.

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So can people who make classist assumptions. Lolz.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

More than 50% of the student body don't receive need based aid. Not sure what you are trying to say. The school costs almost $90k a year, average merit is around $20k, but maybe your definition of affluent is different than someone who can shell out almost $300,000 for their kid's education.

DP
College costs are a masterclass in how to lie with statistics. Nothing means what it says. The truth is hidden because colleges don't report the data that the Federal government can't seize via conditional aid.

NEU has 29% on Federal aid, and low cost for those students. (Average $28k/yr all in)
Harvard has only 3% on Federal aid, and lower cost for those students (average $20K/yr all in).
UMD-CP has 23% on Federal aid paying $20K/yr all in, but their full pay students pay much less.

But what about students not on Federal aid? Who knows?! Are they full pay? Are they on generous merit or need aid so they don't need federal aid? (Probably not)

Still, NEU has over 1000 of 4000 students per year on Federal aid paying middle class price for college.

I have no idea what the point that you are trying to make is, but 20% of Harvard students receive Pell grants. Seriously, your thoughts are incoherent.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern used to be a nothing commuter school. They have played the US News ranking game to increase their popularity, and it has worked. Kids who would never have considered Northeastern now apply and sometimes attend.

+1. It was a commuter school until pretty recently. It’s well documented how they played the game and rose in rankings and amazing to me that so many fell for the hype.

BC was a commuter school no that long ago, too. Big deal. Not sure what the point is.

https://beacon.bc.edu/the-long-view/

''But by 1964, when he graduated, Pat had begun to see rapid change on the horizon with the opening of three residence halls—Roncalli, Williams, and Walsh—to accommodate the growing number of students who needed to live at the Heights.

“Boston College was considered a commuter school back then,” says Pat Stokes. “And now students come from across the country and all over the world,” he continues. “We have some of the top programs, and we are recognized throughout the United States.”

Pat has been an integral part of the University’s transformation since those early days.

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NP. I don't care about the commuter school history of any of them; just pointing out that 1964 is, in fact, a long time ago.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I don't care about the commuter school history of any of them; just pointing out that 1964 is, in fact, a long time ago.

Yes, it's well into the 21st century already.
Now is important and what matters.
Some old timers are still living in the 60s 70s 80s, and kerp posting about the old days nobody cares.

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Will DC be full pay? Our 24 was admitted to BC RD and very interested in attending (couldn’t apply ED because we needed to compare offers).

We told our 24 what our college budget was, and it was well below BC’s tuition. DC still wanted to apply and see how numbers worked out. I was surprised that DC was offered only a small loan, so really no meaningful aid at all. We will have multiple kids in college at the same time, and aren’t willing to pay $350,000+ for BC.

It seems to be an amazing school, unless you are a MC/UMC kid. Our 24 is attending a public T30 in the fall.

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

Location is fine. All the buildings are awful.

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This is a tedious thread. If you visit Boston, you can easily see each of these colleges and the differences are readily apparent (versus say visiting Middlebury, Colby, etc which often blend together based on tours).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern used to be a nothing commuter school. They have played the US News ranking game to increase their popularity, and it has worked. Kids who would never have considered Northeastern now apply and sometimes attend.

+1. It was a commuter school until pretty recently. It’s well documented how they played the game and rose in rankings and amazing to me that so many fell for the hype.

BC was a commuter school no that long ago, too. Big deal. Not sure what the point is.

https://beacon.bc.edu/the-long-view/

''But by 1964, when he graduated, Pat had begun to see rapid change on the horizon with the opening of three residence halls—Roncalli, Williams, and Walsh—to accommodate the growing number of students who needed to live at the Heights.

“Boston College was considered a commuter school back then,” says Pat Stokes. “And now students come from across the country and all over the world,” he continues. “We have some of the top programs, and we are recognized throughout the United States.”

Pat has been an integral part of the University’s transformation since those early days.

New to this thread and don't really care about NEU's former commuter school status. But come on, 1964? NEU was a commuter school in the 1990's, 30 years later.

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

BC is mostly in the suburbs and is farther to Government Center than Tufts. By the way, Tufts is only 6 miles to Gov't Center.

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Anonymous wrote:BC doesn't work if you're not Catholic (we're not);
Tufts doesn't work if hour kid wants to be in the city (it's in the burbs on a hill - FWIW, my kid thought Tufts would be #1, but after visiting, didn't like the vibe);
BU doesn't have much of a campus (full city college);
NEU has the best of all - city campus (inbetween 2 T-stops), excellent Econ (my kid is an Econ major at NEU), but I'm not going to lie, this is our third kid, and their admin is a hot mess. Billing is a disaster, always late and always wrong, and housing is a joke (your kid doesn't find out whete they'll live until mid-July if you're lucky, but possibly as late as mid-August). Makes planning difficult

Why do you say BC doesn’t work if not Catholic? It’s my Jewish nephew’s first choice. Seems better than some Pro-Hamas campuses.

Your Jewish nephew might want to really think about it.

With 70% of the student body Catholic, it will be hard to relate if he doesn't share that experience. Obviously someone is going to say their Jewish friend, etc loves it and the students don't go to Mass, etc. But the reality is that they have been to Mass, went to a Catholic high School, want to raise their kids Catholic, etc. and it is a Catholic school regardless of the fact that it is a Jesuit Catholic school.

This is BS by someone who obviously doesn't know anything about BC because as PP admits their kid did not go to BC. My DC just graduated from BC. We are not a religious family, DC did not even do 1st communion, has never been to mass, and did not study at a catholic school. However, some students go to mass but they are not the majority.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

BC is mostly in the suburbs and is farther to Government Center than Tufts. By the way, Tufts is only 6 miles to Gov't Center.

All the Boston schools differ in how they "feel". Tufts doesn't have a "city" feel to its campus, which could be a positive or a negative. Likewise, BU and NEU have a city feeling to them.

[Anonymous]

Recently traveled to Tufts with DS for a campus visit. Info session was great, but campus tour consisted of standing in front of a couple of buildings on the periphery of campus without much (if any) time spent on the main campus.
Impossible to assess if quads/green spaces existed or what academic buildings looked like. Strange. Maybe it was just our group, or perhaps they were hiding something...