Why the hate for Boston College?

[Anonymous]

Boston college is such a ridiculously overrated shit school. Toured the campus. 🤮

[Anonymous]

The alumni networks of Notre Dame, Georgetown , and Holy Cross are much stronger and more successful. As others posted Boston was a commuter school for poor kids and thus does not have the 150 years of tradition and well connected alums that the old money Catholic (Gtown, HC, and ND) schools do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The alumni networks of Notre Dame, Georgetown , and Holy Cross are much stronger and more successful. As others posted Boston was a commuter school for poor kids and thus does not have the 150 years of tradition and well connected alums that the old money Catholic (Gtown, HC, and ND) schools do.

Your kid is obviously attending Holy Cross

[Anonymous]

^Nope not interested in Catholic schools but anyone who follows higher ed knows college reputations are established over many decades Fact- Georgetown, Holy Cross and non-Jesuit Notre Dame were national schools from the beginning unlike Nova and BC.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

MIT used to be a vocational school.
C, BU, and NU have a great history of serving working class and common people in this country.
That is a proud history opposed to the schools that were like country clubs for rich Whites.

BC as a commuter school turned out a lot of politicians and lawyers/judges.

John Kerry, Tip ONeil, Ed Markey for example. Massachusetts has a long history of governors, attorneys general, state reps, US congressmen, judges at all levels who went to Boston College. BC had an excellent reputation as a commuter school. I know some of you use “commuter school” as a slur but it doesn’t apply here.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

MIT used to be a vocational school.
C, BU, and NU have a great history of serving working class and common people in this country.
That is a proud history opposed to the schools that were like country clubs for rich Whites.

BC as a commuter school turned out a lot of politicians and lawyers/judges.

John Kerry, Tip ONeil, Ed Markey for example. Massachusetts has a long history of governors, attorneys general, state reps, US congressmen, judges at all levels who went to Boston College. BC had an excellent reputation as a commuter school. I know some of you use “commuter school” as a slur but it doesn’t apply here.

Clarification, that was generally during the 1960s and earlier.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

MIT used to be a vocational school.
C, BU, and NU have a great history of serving working class and common people in this country.
That is a proud history opposed to the schools that were like country clubs for rich Whites.

BC as a commuter school turned out a lot of politicians and lawyers/judges.

John Kerry, Tip ONeil, Ed Markey for example. Massachusetts has a long history of governors, attorneys general, state reps, US congressmen, judges at all levels who went to Boston College. BC had an excellent reputation as a commuter school. I know some of you use “commuter school” as a slur but it doesn’t apply here.

Don't claim John Kerry as an alum, he went to a prestigious HS and college and somehow mucked it up and went to BC for his JD. BC's most famous alum is Doug Flutie, his name ID is greater than Markey and O'Neil. Saying BC produces a lot of pols for a commuter school is as ridiculous as saying Eureka College produced a lot of presidents for being a small unselective LAC. What's your point?

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Anonymous wrote:In the STEM fields, especially CS/AI and engineering, NEU has surpassed BC so while it has a very good business program while BU has made a big push in engineering, many see alternatives in in-demand fields just in the Boston area.

The BC network within Boston is fine but you are competing with Tufts, BU, and NEU (to say nothing of Harvard and MIT and NESCACs or Ivy graduates looking to return home), none of which is a clearly better than the others. Because so much of the higher-paying Boston job market is biotech, it is less than ideal to got to BC thinking you will stay in Boston. Maybe you work back or middle office at State Street.

Network is overrated anyways.

Not when you go to a T25 school.

This is what you get with the fancy network.

- Harvard English = $64,155
- Boston College Finance = $135,373
- Northeastern CS = $149,127

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/

Self-reported stats are beautiful and not fraught with significant problems. Let me know the next time you fill out an alumni survey of your income and net worth 30 years out of school. If you think the BC Finance major is doing better in life than Harvard English you are a fanatic.

Stop crying. It's not self-reported. It's data from the Department of Education.
BC finance outcome is definitely better than Harvard English. You are clueless

It is self-reported. Seniors and recent college alumni are not obligated to provide the Dept. of Education their income. They are not subpoenad. Duh

Can't you even google? it took me 3 seconds.

"The College Scorecard gathers data through federal reporting from institutions, data on federal financial aid, and tax information. It also utilizes data from the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) for program-level enrollment and earnings information. The data is then aggregated and analyzed to provide metrics like graduation rates, debt levels, and post-graduation earnings."

That is a narrow set of students. Full pay students are not accounted for.

Do we care what daughter of Obama or son of Trump makes after graduation? Hell no.
They'll get a job by working for dad or via fancy connection. those will actually skew the data.
This eliminates the factor and provides realistic data for common people (lower, middle, upper middle class) either at Harvard or Boston College.

I do. I want rich and connected classmates. Not used car salesmen’s children.

Rich classmates won't bother with your kid.
That's why
- Harvard English = $64,155
- Boston College Finance = $135,373
- Northeastern CS = $149,127

Call me when you or your kid actually chooses NEU or BC over Harvard and has acceptance letters in hand.

There are a lot of rich people at Boston College too.
I just showed you so called network is overrated and overhyped either at Harvard or Boston College.
Never relay on that.

You did not show that. You showed that, as a group, FNCE workers get much higher salaries than English majors, who are likely to enter education, the arts, etc -- fields that are known for being more interesting and meaningful than they are remunerative. Getting a $60K job as a Hollywood agent or a gallerista requires a powerful network. I'd guess that Harvard's network is stronger than BC's, which is stronger than JMU.

English majors, unlike you, might not measure success with a dollar figure.

Yet another attempt to argue going to BC over Harvard can make sense in certain circumstances. Thank you for explaining all the fallacies behind that conclusion.

[Anonymous]

Kerry went to Yale, BC was a commuter school well into the 80’s.

[Anonymous]

DePaul in Chicago turned out a lot of politicians also does that put it on same prestige level of Notre Dame, HC, and Georgetown -of course not.

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Anonymous wrote: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!

MIT used to be a vocational school.
C, BU, and NU have a great history of serving working class and common people in this country.
That is a proud history opposed to the schools that were like country clubs for rich Whites.

Most T25 schools don't have a history of serving the common people with average SAT scores and it shows in their ranking and the high regard academia has for those institutions. I'd rather be in a country club for rich people than a working class school.

You should definitely have your kid mention this in their personal statement. I hear this is exactly the kind of “why Harvard” story that admissions loves.

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Anonymous wrote:Kerry went to Yale, BC was a commuter school well into the 80’s.

I attended in the mid 1980s from a far-off state. Did not know any commuters, sorry.

There is no need to make stuff up about BC. It has its advantages and disadvantages like any other school.

[Anonymous]

I don't see any more "hate" for it than other schools that are its peers like BU, NEU or Tufts in the Boston area.

It obviously carries some reputation as a white, rich, snobby student body. There isn't any school in the world that you can make some inflammatory comments about and not get a response.

[Anonymous]

Seems like BC boosters are running fast away from their commuter school past.

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Anonymous wrote:DePaul in Chicago turned out a lot of politicians also does that put it on same prestige level of Notre Dame, HC, and Georgetown -of course not.

Some say BC is the DePaul of the East Coast.