College of the Holy Cross?

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By car one can get from HC campus to downtown Boston in less than an hour. The HC alumni presence is huge in Boston. And it’s grads over represented in Boston’s wealthy suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:By car one can get from HC campus to downtown Boston in less than an hour. The HC alumni presence is huge in Boston. And it’s grads over represented in Boston’s wealthy suburbs.

HC is very underrepresented in MA politics.

Only one has been a senator or governor and only one has been a rep from MA.

[Anonymous]

^By choice HC is not a pipeline for local Massachusetts politics. It always drew kids from all over the country with NY metro the biggest draw since the school founded in 1843. HC traditionally was an upper income crowd with parents being doctors, business owners, lawyers thus local politics wasn’t appealing. By contrast Boston College a school with humble roots like many other Catholic colleges-DePaul, Fordham, Providence, Seton Hall- its alums found politics as a way out of working class. Kids didn’t go to Holy Cross to be state reps similar to Notre Dame and Georgetown. On
A national stage HC has produced US Senators from NH, recently Pennsylvania, and the current Sen from Vermont. Finally David Walsh an HC grad from the 1890s was the first Irish Catholic to be elected Governor and US Senator from Massachusetts in the 1910s- a large accomplishment beating the Protestant/ Boston Brahmin elite. And of course Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas is HC Grad believe the only Catholic undergrad to hold that position. Georgetown and ND law school grads have served on the bench but not undergrads- HC holds that distinction.

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Holy Cross like Georgetown was an old money Catholic family school. Kids from the Catholic prep schools across the country went to HC prime example family that started General Tire in 1915 from Ohio were HC grads. Several other multi generational families more recently are the family that started UHaul from Arizona in the 1940s. Lot of other companies going back 100 years. At 3,000 students school is relatively small but its alumni network is national and very successful like a Catholic version of Williams College. Easier to get into HC as opposed to Williams but HC kids can look forward to successful outcomes.

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What’s with all of the holy cross zealots?

[Anonymous]

It’s an overachiever that doesn’t get the repect it deserves. HC is a lot better than the likes of Smith or Bates. Know a few Holy Cross alums none stuck up.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s an overachiever that doesn’t get the repect it deserves. HC is a lot better than the likes of Smith or Bates. Know a few Holy Cross alums none stuck up.

I live in back bay and I see more bates, bowdoin, Colby sweatshirts than I do holy cross

Are holy cross grads in boston buy side?

Do holy cross grads wear their swag less than nescac grads?

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Anonymous wrote:Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

“Historically” being the key word. HC has not kept up its old reputation. But if kid is looking for a good small school in Boston, then sure.

HC is not a "Boston" college. It is located in Worcester, a city located west of downtown Boston.

Boston College isn’t a “Boston” college either. So what

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Anonymous wrote:Two kids in our town are Holy Cross seniors and are extremely happy. Had summer internships and received full time offers.

You can say that about community colleges too. Thanks for the anecdote

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Anonymous wrote:^By choice HC is not a pipeline for local Massachusetts politics. It always drew kids from all over the country with NY metro the biggest draw since the school founded in 1843. HC traditionally was an upper income crowd with parents being doctors, business owners, lawyers thus local politics wasn’t appealing. By contrast Boston College a school with humble roots like many other Catholic colleges-DePaul, Fordham, Providence, Seton Hall- its alums found politics as a way out of working class. Kids didn’t go to Holy Cross to be state reps similar to Notre Dame and Georgetown. On
A national stage HC has produced US Senators from NH, recently Pennsylvania, and the current Sen from Vermont. Finally David Walsh an HC grad from the 1890s was the first Irish Catholic to be elected Governor and US Senator from Massachusetts in the 1910s- a large accomplishment beating the Protestant/ Boston Brahmin elite. And of course Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas is HC Grad believe the only Catholic undergrad to hold that position. Georgetown and ND law school grads have served on the bench but not undergrads- HC holds that distinction.

I never said state reps .

That’s why I limited it to governor / senate/us congressmemver

If it was a class thing, why does Harvard have tons of rich alums dotting MA politics? Alums with homes in beacon hill, attended bbn or rivers school and then went into MA politics?

Auchincloss comes from a very rich Brookline/newton family for example.

[Anonymous]

How many Dartmouth alums active in NH politics. Better comparison is not aware of any Williams grads active in Ma politics.

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Auchincloss is a huge AIPAC supporter not sure with the plight of starving Palestinians in Gaza that’s a plus for Harvard.

[Anonymous]

HC grads are prominent in Massachusetts medical field the Maine school grads are not. Also look at the founders and top executives at Boston area commercial real estate firms dominated by Holy Cross and also BC grads. Very few from Colby or Bates.

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Anonymous wrote:HC grads are prominent in Massachusetts medical field the Maine school grads are not. Also look at the founders and top executives at Boston area commercial real estate firms dominated by Holy Cross and also BC grads. Very few from Colby or Bates.

CRE is not PE or biotech VC in Kendall

I'm not from Boston, but I live here now, and I don't run into many Holy Cross grads either in my neighborhood nor in Camberville/Arlington.

I guess they are out in wellesley, Weston, concord, dover etc? More suburban coded?

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Anonymous wrote:Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

“Historically” being the key word. HC has not kept up its old reputation. But if kid is looking for a good small school in Boston, then sure.

Depends on how you define “in” Boston. But I don’t count Worcester as in Boston.

Worcester is the second largest city in all of New England folks.

It's not Boston.