What colleges are in Boston College's tier group?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

I would add Tulane

No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list

It was 63 this year, but whatever.

Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.

You’re really going to denigrate any schools in the top 2-3% in the US? You’re definitely a troll.

I will denigrate any claim that BC is elite, academically (comparisons to NYU, Georgetown, USC etc.) or socially (comparisons to Wake Forest). Some people are meant to be nurses and hack attorneys who wear polos to the office on Monday, BC is a good fit for them.

Can you imagine any of the Clintons bickering about college tiers and peer lists on a Friday night? Let me let you in on a little secret the people above you are too polite to let you hear: you are trash.

Clinton (Gtown) won his election. Kerry (barely BC, barely) lost. What a difference schools make.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

I would add Tulane

No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list

It was 63 this year, but whatever.

Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.

You’re really going to denigrate any schools in the top 2-3% in the US? You’re definitely a troll.

I will denigrate any claim that BC is elite, academically (comparisons to NYU, Georgetown, USC etc.) or socially (comparisons to Wake Forest). Some people are meant to be nurses and hack attorneys who wear polos to the office on Monday, BC is a good fit for them.

So telling that you think NYU and USC are "elite"...

They attract social elites in their respective cities. BC does not attract Boston’s elite, laughable to think it does.

Laughable to think the "people" NYU and USC attract could ever be considered elite. New money rednecks and poor people. Gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

I would add Tulane

No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list

It was 63 this year, but whatever.

Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.

You are clearly infirm and almost certainly barreling down the sorry road to death. If only nature could hurry up.

Everyone is in the road to death, usually faster than they realize or perceive. I don’t know why you find that amusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

Maybe or maybe not academically- but BC seems just as hard to get in. I would put it at the low end of the Emory ND Georgetown tier. BC way tougher than any of the schools above.

Holy cross is an outlier in that group.

Wash your mouth out with soap after saying BC is in the same tier as Emory ND and Georgetown. Students at those three schools made responsible decisions in high school.

Wash your mouth out with soap...? Who's the philistine now? Sounds like a poverty stricken hick got a lucky break from an admissions officer interested in economic diversity. Take a sewing needle to your ego and as you listen to the air hiss out ask yourself what/who broke you so completely. Sad.

I didn’t grow up poor. I’ve refrained from assuming the backgrounds of other posters or making ad hominems.

Sure you didn't...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The amount of BC shilling here is effing unreal. If no one here is paid by admissions I’d be floored.

I don't think it's that. BC is a genuinely good school and it's difficult to get into. That sense of community is extremely appealing to a lot of 17 year olds today.

I think the older people here really underestimate how important vibe and friendliness are for today's applicants. BC does really well there.

People at Ivies are often friendly, too. Same with Georgetown and USC. Aside from the odd school like NYU that lacks a campus, most communities of 18 year olds are warm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

I would add Tulane

No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list

It was 63 this year, but whatever.

Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.

You are clearly infirm and almost certainly barreling down the sorry road to death. If only nature could hurry up.

Everyone is in the road to death, usually faster than they realize or perceive. I don’t know why you find that amusing.

That tracks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, Tufts are obvious. Outside of Boston it’s below ND, Gtown but above holy cross and Villanova and Provence college. Maybe peers to Colby, bates, and grinnell for SLAC.

BC and BU are different applicant pools from Colby and Bates. SLAC do attract social elites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, Tufts are obvious. Outside of Boston it’s below ND, Gtown but above holy cross and Villanova and Provence college. Maybe peers to Colby, bates, and grinnell for SLAC.

BC and BU are different applicant pools from Colby and Bates. SLAC do attract social elites.

It's amusing you make a distinction between "social" elites and .... who exactly? You're either elite or you aren't. Sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

I would add Tulane

No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list

It was 63 this year, but whatever.

Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.

You’re really going to denigrate any schools in the top 2-3% in the US? You’re definitely a troll.

I will denigrate any claim that BC is elite, academically (comparisons to NYU, Georgetown, USC etc.) or socially (comparisons to Wake Forest). Some people are meant to be nurses and hack attorneys who wear polos to the office on Monday, BC is a good fit for them.

So telling that you think NYU and USC are "elite"...

They attract social elites in their respective cities. BC does not attract Boston’s elite, laughable to think it does.

Your use of "social" conjures images of food stamps and the unwashed. Are you poor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

I would add Tulane

No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list

It was 63 this year, but whatever.

Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.

You’re really going to denigrate any schools in the top 2-3% in the US? You’re definitely a troll.

I will denigrate any claim that BC is elite, academically (comparisons to NYU, Georgetown, USC etc.) or socially (comparisons to Wake Forest). Some people are meant to be nurses and hack attorneys who wear polos to the office on Monday, BC is a good fit for them.

So telling that you think NYU and USC are "elite"...

They attract social elites in their respective cities. BC does not attract Boston’s elite, laughable to think it does.

Your use of "social" conjures images of food stamps and the unwashed. Are you poor?

It is distinguished from academic elites and economic elites. If you read “social elite” and think of food stamps, you belong at BC with the other illiterates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University

This is so damning. BC can barely beat the University of Florida or Irvine. California students rejected by Berkeley, UCLA, and San Diego dread going to Irvine.

Tom Tom,

BC is a better school, clearly, than any of the above schools — even 20 years ago. It was underrated by US News then, and it is underrated now. BC is now the clear #3 in that area, behind only MIT and Harvard. Then Tufts, then Northeastern, then BU.

BC is not clearly the #3 school in that area. BC, BU, NEU, and Tufts attract students of similar caliber but differentiate themselves based on preferences. BC might be a top choice for Catholic students, but for others, it may hold little to no appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, Tufts are obvious. Outside of Boston it’s below ND, Gtown but above holy cross and Villanova and Provence college. Maybe peers to Colby, bates, and grinnell for SLAC.

BC and BU are different applicant pools from Colby and Bates. SLAC do attract social elites.

It's amusing you make a distinction between "social" elites and .... who exactly? You're either elite or you aren't. Sorry!

Zuckerberg is an economic elite. Fukuyama is an academic elite. Neither are social elites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University

This is so damning. BC can barely beat the University of Florida or Irvine. California students rejected by Berkeley, UCLA, and San Diego dread going to Irvine.

Tom Tom,

BC is a better school, clearly, than any of the above schools — even 20 years ago. It was underrated by US News then, and it is underrated now. BC is now the clear #3 in that area, behind only MIT and Harvard. Then Tufts, then Northeastern, then BU.

BC is not clearly the #3 school in that area. BC, BU, NEU, and Tufts attract students of similar caliber but differentiate themselves based on preferences. BC might be a top choice for Catholic students, but for others, it may hold little to no appeal.

Crediting. Tufts has historically been more highly regarded and has a better alumni network nationwide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, Tufts are obvious. Outside of Boston it’s below ND, Gtown but above holy cross and Villanova and Provence college. Maybe peers to Colby, bates, and grinnell for SLAC.

BC and BU are different applicant pools from Colby and Bates. SLAC do attract social elites.

Grocery bags, dog poop, and old shoes all go to the same dump. Why are you acting like one kind of trash is better than another? Colby, Bates, BC, BU... all the same. Don't split hairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BU, BC, Tufts are obvious. Outside of Boston it’s below ND, Gtown but above holy cross and Villanova and Provence college. Maybe peers to Colby, bates, and grinnell for SLAC.

BC and BU are different applicant pools from Colby and Bates. SLAC do attract social elites.

It's amusing you make a distinction between "social" elites and .... who exactly? You're either elite or you aren't. Sorry!

Zuckerberg is an economic elite. Fukuyama is an academic elite. Neither are social elites.

Sad...