BC tonight!

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe symposium on banned books...what were the banned books? Or were the books just moved from age-denominated sections? In this day and age, maybe BC didn't want a potential troublemaker.

I was thinking the same. Maybe any type of protesting is a detractor these days.

I doubt that would be an issue at a Jesuit school like BC.

Although - I will say that BC is not really a school where there are student protests.....they just don't roll that way. They tend to be active in "participating in good" but not so active in "political/topic protesting". This isn't to say they think banning books is a good thing (or other topics to protest about).

This is true if you casually ignore their massive sjp, protesting across campus, and the repeated antisemitic attacks that occurred this past spring.

100% not BC. No protests at all on their campus.

Read and learn.
https://www.bcheights.com/2024/04/26/bostonco...o-palestine-protest/

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

Agree with that. DD graduated from BC this year and college friends are from all over the country and different socio economic backgrounds.

Say what?. BC is less than 1% Jewish and only 5% Black or African American. That's the lowest percent of blacks at any institution I've heard about with maybe the exception of BYU. https://datausa.io/profile/university/boston-...Pacific%20Islanders.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

Agree with that. DD graduated from BC this year and college friends are from all over the country and different socio economic backgrounds.

Say what?. BC is less than 1% Jewish and only 5% Black or African American. That's the lowest percent of blacks at any institution I've heard about with maybe the exception of BYU. https://datausa.io/profile/university/boston-...Pacific%20Islanders.

That's ^^ in reference to the pp above in the thread who claimed "absolute diversity at every level" at BC

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe symposium on banned books...what were the banned books? Or were the books just moved from age-denominated sections? In this day and age, maybe BC didn't want a potential troublemaker.

I was thinking the same. Maybe any type of protesting is a detractor these days.

I doubt that would be an issue at a Jesuit school like BC.

Although - I will say that BC is not really a school where there are student protests.....they just don't roll that way. They tend to be active in "participating in good" but not so active in "political/topic protesting". This isn't to say they think banning books is a good thing (or other topics to protest about).

This is true if you casually ignore their massive sjp, protesting across campus, and the repeated antisemitic attacks that occurred this past spring.

You have confused BC with some other school.

Agree and I remember someone posting this about BC before. As the parent of a Jewish student at BC who is very involved with campus activities I can tell you there were zero antisemitic attacks or protests on campus last spring. What on earth is this previous poster talking about? Maybe they don't know that Boston College is not Boston University, where they did in fact have protests over Gaza?

There were multiple protests on BC campus, a few are in the campus newspaper if you are in full disbelief. Sounds like your "Jewish student" is fully tuned out of campus happenings.

DP. There was one peaceful protest and it was one hour long and only had 50 kids attend. I also have kids at BC and they are very in the know.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

Agree with that. DD graduated from BC this year and college friends are from all over the country and different socio economic backgrounds.

Say what?. BC is less than 1% Jewish and only 5% Black or African American. That's the lowest percent of blacks at any institution I've heard about with maybe the exception of BYU. https://datausa.io/profile/university/boston-...Pacific%20Islanders.

I think several schools dropped to that area post SC ruling. I think Tufts went down to like 4% black.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

Agree with that. DD graduated from BC this year and college friends are from all over the country and different socio economic backgrounds.

Say what?. BC is less than 1% Jewish and only 5% Black or African American. That's the lowest percent of blacks at any institution I've heard about with maybe the exception of BYU. https://datausa.io/profile/university/boston-...Pacific%20Islanders.

Does your black student want to go to a Catholic university? Are they Catholic? Does your Jewish student want to go to a Catholic school? This is the real question.

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The African-American population at BU, Northeastern, Tufts all at or below 5%.

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Anonymous wrote:The African-American population at BU, Northeastern, Tufts all at or below 5%.

Might as well add Amherst to the list if they’re looking to eschew blackness

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

Agree with that. DD graduated from BC this year and college friends are from all over the country and different socio economic backgrounds.

Say what?. BC is less than 1% Jewish and only 5% Black or African American. That's the lowest percent of blacks at any institution I've heard about with maybe the exception of BYU. https://datausa.io/profile/university/boston-...Pacific%20Islanders.

I think several schools dropped to that area post SC ruling. I think Tufts went down to like 4% black.

5% black students is the average for top colleges.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

Agree with that. DD graduated from BC this year and college friends are from all over the country and different socio economic backgrounds.

Say what?. BC is less than 1% Jewish and only 5% Black or African American. That's the lowest percent of blacks at any institution I've heard about with maybe the exception of BYU. https://datausa.io/profile/university/boston-...Pacific%20Islanders.

I think several schools dropped to that area post SC ruling. I think Tufts went down to like 4% black.

5% black students is the average for top colleges.

Pre Supreme Court decision Ivies hovered around 8-10% (Dartmouth e exception). 8% was the desired magic number since the ‘90’s.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a freshman at BC now (ED1 admit). After meeting/hearing about 15 or so other freshmen, the one thing that really came across to me was the absolute diversity at every level: majority of the kids are white, but from all over the map literally (country and world), very different socio economic backgrounds, different religions, only one is "very catholic," all in a variety of majors. Basically, no 2 kids seemed the "same". Other threads have touched on the issue that so many of our kids look the same on paper. Just from DS's large circle, it seems to me there's little overlap among them (aside from assuming that they all have course rigor in their high schools). Just my observation from a small sample.

It's an observation. Based on 1 kid and his friend group. And "diversity" used with the common dictionary meaning, including geographic, socio economic, religious and majors. Specifically note is that most of the kids are white. No one ever claimed that BC had a 25%+ black student population.