Why the hate for Boston College?

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Anonymous wrote:BC, BU and Northeasten are in the 40-50 ranking not sure if they qualify as semi-elite. USC would ve semi-elite.

Semantics I guess, but what would you call 40-50 out of 4,000 colleges? Top 1%?

They are all hard to get into (<15% acceptance rate, etc).

People on DCUM will have their favorites and bash many schools, but the numbers are the numbers.

The Ivy crowd (though none of their kids actually attend them) nonsensically believe that a group of 40-50 schools can be accurately stack ranked and that the to are ‘elite’. They are as delusional as a bunch of incels sitting in their parents basements. BC is a great school, if your kid likes it go for it.

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Anonymous wrote:BC, BU and Northeasten are in the 40-50 ranking not sure if they qualify as semi-elite. USC would ve semi-elite.

It's not random rankings determine that.

It's how the paying customers view them.

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Anonymous wrote:BC, BU, NEU all decent but nothing special similar to Villanova and GW.

There are close to 1 million applicants every year.
They collectively think BC, BU, NEU are little more special, hence the higher demand.

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BC is a great and popular school. People should just be aware that they play the admissions game similarly to NEU, Tulane, and many others.

Their ED acceptance rate is about 35% and they use ED to fill much of the class. Given the school’s popularity, this significantly deflates the acceptance rate. 60% of admits are test optional.

It’s the school’s prerogative to run their business this way. And for many people it doesn’t matter. But these admissions games to perpetuate perception of prestige with kids, pressure kids into an ED decision, and to justify a $90k/year price tag, rubs some people the wrong way.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

especially like BC? Are you on crack?

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Anonymous wrote:BC, BU, NEU all decent but nothing special similar to Villanova and GW.

GW is a tier below.

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Unlike The Ivies BC. BU and Northeastern have no tradition of greatness. Good top 50 schools like Tulane.

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Anonymous wrote:BC is a great and popular school. People should just be aware that they play the admissions game similarly to NEU, Tulane, and many others.

Their ED acceptance rate is about 35% and they use ED to fill much of the class. Given the school’s popularity, this significantly deflates the acceptance rate. 60% of admits are test optional.

It’s the school’s prerogative to run their business this way. And for many people it doesn’t matter. But these admissions games to perpetuate perception of prestige with kids, pressure kids into an ED decision, and to justify a $90k/year price tag, rubs some people the wrong way.

Ivies invented ED back in the days.

Nothing's wrong with accepting high stat kids who absolutely think their school is #1 choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Unlike The Ivies BC. BU and Northeastern have no tradition of greatness. Good top 50 schools like Tulane.

They all have great history and traditions.

MIT used to be a vocational school.

Ives used to be country clubs for rich whites. Nothing is great about that history and tradition.

Most of all, what's important is today.

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Anonymous wrote:Unlike The Ivies BC. BU and Northeastern have no tradition of greatness. Good top 50 schools like Tulane.

Tulane isn't a T50 school. Thats just what private HS families like you to believe.
USNWR 63
Forbes 147
WSJ 451
Niche 69
Times Higher Ed ~90

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Anonymous wrote:Because it pretends to be elite but isn't but the rich can buy in.

Is this supposed to be a sentence?

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There’s one prolific poster, the BC Basher. Dude must have “BC” on a Google alert. He jumps in early and often at any thread that remotely refers to BC. Then he just goes insane with the criticisms of the students and parents (DERANGED, etc) and then makes up his own arguments to “respond” to.
If reported, Jeff will remove the crazy posts. But the BC basher remains undeterred. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn this one poster is responsible for nearly 100% of the BC “hate” on this forum.

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Fact BC, BU, and NU were commuter schools until the 80s or 90s. Primary focus was working class kids not like Williams Tufts Holy Cross, Notre Dame. For reference the patriarch of Kennedy family graduated from Harvard not BC well over 100 years ago!

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Anonymous wrote:Because it pretends to be elite but isn't but the rich can buy in.

+1 This sums it up nicely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s one prolific poster, the BC Basher. Dude must have “BC” on a Google alert. He jumps in early and often at any thread that remotely refers to BC. Then he just goes insane with the criticisms of the students and parents (DERANGED, etc) and then makes up his own arguments to “respond” to.
If reported, Jeff will remove the crazy posts. But the BC basher remains undeterred. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn this one poster is responsible for nearly 100% of the BC “hate” on this forum.

maybe it's a BU, ND or U Miami grad?