What kind of student would enjoy Holy Cross?

[Anonymous]

Holy Cross recently built new townhouse apartments right on campus.

[Anonymous]

The kind who doesn't mind hearing the constant din of a thousand cars on the interstate encircling campus.

[Anonymous]

Know s bunch of HC grads very well rounded with high net worth. Their alums help each other for decades after graduation. Long history with Georgetown both old money vibes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great social life and parties no Greek life

Is this true for non athletes?

[Anonymous]

Yes, very good mixture of kids on campus from artsy types to athletic types. Also Holy Cross has one of the best classics departments in the country. With 3300 enrollment, HC is big enough to offer something to a wide range of students but as others have said kids like the school and utilize a fantastic alumni network. Holy Cross should be ranked in top 15 of LAC’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Smaller version of Notre Dame and easier to get into.

Notre Dame is way more “Catholic” than Holy Cross.

Holy Cross is Jesuit…

[Anonymous]

Agree

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Smaller version of Notre Dame and easier to get into.

Notre Dame is way more “Catholic” than Holy Cross.

Holy Cross is Jesuit…

right, the better comparison would be with BC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Smaller version of Notre Dame and easier to get into.

Notre Dame is way more “Catholic” than Holy Cross.

Holy Cross is Jesuit…

right, the better comparison would be with BC

Agree in terms of religion, but Holy Cross is otherwise not comparable to any of these because it is a SLAC. Part of what makes it unique.

[Anonymous]

This school is a hidden gem and they were smart to hire a non-Jesuit as the Holy Cross President. Also new admissions team going after geographic diversity more kids from the West Coast and South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This school is a hidden gem and they were smart to hire a non-Jesuit as the Holy Cross President. Also new admissions team going after geographic diversity more kids from the West Coast and South.

Well, he may or may not be a good president, but nobody — I mean nobody — is ever appointed president of a primarily undergraduate college without being a PH.D., tenured academic. A JD does not cut it…unless.

[Anonymous]

New President is magna cum laude grad of Brown and grad of Harvard Law looks like a great hire also former dean of Boston College Law School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New President is magna cum laude grad of Brown and grad of Harvard Law looks like a great hire also former dean of Boston College Law School.

Yes, but those are not the qualifications for an undergraduate college president. Just stating a fact; it’s incontrovertible unless — as I suspect is the case — you are completely ignorant as to how academia works. You can acknowledge that they bent the rules for him, because he obviously lavked the necessary qualifications, and still assert that he is doing a good job. It’s OK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New President is magna cum laude grad of Brown and grad of Harvard Law looks like a great hire also former dean of Boston College Law School.

Yes, but those are not the qualifications for an undergraduate college president. Just stating a fact; it’s incontrovertible unless — as I suspect is the case — you are completely ignorant as to how academia works. You can acknowledge that they bent the rules for him, because he obviously lavked the necessary qualifications, and still assert that he is doing a good job. It’s OK.

Other SLACs have started to break from the model of a scholar/president. I know of at least one MBA president at a top 50 LAC. Shockingly, people have found that the skills required for great research and teaching don't necessarily overlap with the administrative and fundraising skills needed for higher ed administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New President is magna cum laude grad of Brown and grad of Harvard Law looks like a great hire also former dean of Boston College Law School.

Yes, but those are not the qualifications for an undergraduate college president. Just stating a fact; it’s incontrovertible unless — as I suspect is the case — you are completely ignorant as to how academia works. You can acknowledge that they bent the rules for him, because he obviously lavked the necessary qualifications, and still assert that he is doing a good job. It’s OK.

Other SLACs have started to break from the model of a scholar/president. I know of at least one MBA president at a top 50 LAC. Shockingly, people have found that the skills required for great research and teaching don't necessarily overlap with the administrative and fundraising skills needed for higher ed administration.

And the fact that the most recent batch of 'acting' Ivy presidents are actually hospital administrators more than scholars is not an accident either.