What colleges are in Boston College's tier group?

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:I understand comparing BC to NYU, 10 years ago they were peers. NYU has come up as bit. But Emory?! I was just looking at NSF research funding BC gets less funding than Howard.

Why are you surprised? The idea that BC as an institution or its alumni could tap into the thriving biotech industry found in Cambridge and northwest of the city is risible. It was a glorified commuter school not too long ago.

[Anonymous]

Tom has posted 17 times on this thread. I have been on DCUM over a decade and never seen anything remotely close to this. Do you think we should call someone so he can get help? Do you think he could be having a manic episode?

[Anonymous]

BC is a lot like Wake Tulane and UMiami. And none of them are peers to ND Georgetown Emory UVA. Let’s be honest the first group is used as a safety by the latter.

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:Tom has posted 17 times on this thread. I have been on DCUM over a decade and never seen anything remotely close to this. Do you think we should call someone so he can get help? Do you think he could be having a manic episode?

The responses here are pretty entertaining. Although I believe everything I have said, posters here should learn not to feed the trolls.

It is also funny DCUM has a reputation for being cutthroat and elitist, but people put on their capes for.... BC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If BC were ever close to G’Town and BD, it wouldn’t have changed from EA to ED. It just simply couldn’t hold on to EA anymore. For private schools, EA is the true measure for prestige, including ivies…

This. Most kids with the scores and stats still apply to ND and Georgetown. And then move to BC EDII if deferred or they roll the dice RD. It depends on the strength of the student. Some kids on the margins don’t bother with ND and Georgetown when it’s too much of a reach and just ED I to BC - the kids who are Top 10-15% not Top 5%.

Whatever. My kid who is top 5% went ED1 to BC over ND and Georgetown in large part because of location.

Anyone who thinks Chestnut Hill (and not the good part) is a better location than Georgetown is a philistine. I hope he enjoyed his time at a mediocre public or parochial high school.

Your insults are meaningless, and you’re still wrong.

Please, be specific about where I am wrong. A top 5% student who goes to BC is almost certainly at a bad high school. The top 5% at a good HS (St. Alban's, Harvard-Westlake, Francis Parker etc.) is not going to BC, let alone applying EDI.

Chestnut Hill is full of strip malls and the blight that is Brighton. It is a long T ride from civilization. Georgetown has M Street and Wisconsin Ave. There is no comparison.

Not my job to educate you. You are welcome to your opinions about where top 5% at good schools choose to go. You are welcome to your opinion about what are “good schools”. You are also welcome to keep making wrong assumptions. Just don’t get your feeling hurt when people call out when you’re wrong.

Please, educate me. It is better than watching you flap around like a flaccid windsock. My feelings are not hurt, I do not put stock in those who went to or have immediate family who attend BC.

A pompous windbag and a flaccid windsock; what a pair.

[Anonymous]

NYU was also a glorified commuter school not that long ago. Times change, Thurston Howell III. Seems like you haven’t kept up.

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:BC is a lot like Wake Tulane and UMiami. And none of them are peers to ND Georgetown Emory UVA. Let’s be honest the first group is used as a safety by the latter.

It is similar academically to Wake, Tulane, and the U. But it lacks Greek life and its off-campus housing options are much worse than the other three. Brighton is really rough compared to Coral Gables.

[Anonymous]

Whoever the booster is…. BC is fine. It is not elite. Cope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYU was also a glorified commuter school not that long ago. Times change, Thurston Howell III. Seems like you haven’t kept up.

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[Anonymous]

Early candidate for most off the rails thread of the year

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:NYU was also a glorified commuter school not that long ago. Times change, Thurston Howell III. Seems like you haven’t kept up.

NYU has had a massive influx of capital from international students and NYC private day school alums who could not get into better schools. This began before 2008 and the GFC. BC's recent rise, as small as it is, is much more recent. It also has to compete with Northeastern and Tufts, whereas NYU has no peer school besides Columbia, which is in a different tier.

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:Whoever the booster is…. BC is fine. It is not elite. Cope.

Not at all elite. Academically or socially.

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:Early candidate for most off the rails thread of the year

Comparing BC to NYU, Emory, USC, and ND is off the rails. Going EDI to BC and saying the applicant is a good student is off the rails.

[Anonymous]

Using the name of a character from Metropolitan… quite clever. It’s now clear you’ve been doing a bit.

[Anonymous]

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Early candidate for most off the rails thread of the year

Comparing BC to NYU, Emory, USC, and ND is off the rails. Going EDI to BC and saying the applicant is a good student is off the rails.

And you know about off the rails. You seem to be off your meds.