College of the Holy Cross?

[Anonymous]

Planning a visit soon. Seems tiny at just over 3,000 undergrads but a beautiful looking campus and supportive alumni base.

Seems like a ''nicer'' kid version to a Villanova or Boston College, probably just as wealthy but not as flashy or boastful from what I see.

[Anonymous]

Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

These three have different vibes. There’s no need to measure student “niceness” at one vs the others. Just visit and kid’s preference should be clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

”Boston” lol

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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.

[Anonymous]

When we visited Holy Cross it seemed very vanilla, like there was absolutely nothing distinctive or interesting about them. Their admissions presentation could have been interchanged with 1,000 other schools, and they made great pains to make it clear they weren’t really catholic. The whole thing was totally uninspiring.

Villanova felt like the only of these three schools really willing to acknowledge and lean into their catholic values in their educational approach.

We are not Catholic but kid wanted a values based education (in the sense that education is about preparing to serve your community). Holy Cross did not seem to offer that at all or at least far less than even many of the public schools we visited.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s like saying if you want a good school in Washington go to Johns Hopkins. And it reveals that the poster doesn’t know shit.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Irrelevant to PP’s point, which is HC isn’t in Boston. It’s 46.9 miles away in Worcester. That’s like saying Pomona College is in downtown LA (it’s actually only 35 miles away but will take you two hours of harrowing traffic to get there)

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Irrelevant to PP’s point, which is HC isn’t in Boston. It’s 46.9 miles away in Worcester. That’s like saying Pomona College is in downtown LA (it’s actually only 35 miles away but will take you two hours of harrowing traffic to get there)

It doesn’t take 2 hours to drive into LA

[Anonymous]

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

Still better than BC. Nova has overtaken HC

[Anonymous]

A kid going to Holy Cross is more similar to a kid going to Fairfield than anything else. At our kids catholic school it isn’t the top choice for a student looking for a Catholic / Jesuit college. ND Georgetown BC and Nova in that order.

[Anonymous]

They love demonstrated interest and take a large percentage of their class ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Planning a visit soon. Seems tiny at just over 3,000 undergrads but a beautiful looking campus and supportive alumni base.

Seems like a ''nicer'' kid version to a Villanova or Boston College, probably just as wealthy but not as flashy or boastful from what I see.

They produced luminaries such as Clarence Thomas and Anthony Fauci.