Why the hate for Boston College?

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How is the financial aid situation at BC? Solidly middle class OP, did you get a financial aid offer?

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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.

Isn't this pretty much how it is at all private schools, though, not just those ones?
Some top schools still give preference to legacy or big donations...

It’s the combination of students whose parents can pay 90k with academic mediocrity that grates on a lot of BC haterzz nerves.

it's just you BC hater. still going at it unit the thread is locked. good for you?

There are many posters criticizing BC.

But you're so obvious with your numerous weird criticisms and odd fixation of peers and tiers. And you keep coming back for more. It's you. You're the problem.

The thing where he acts like mentioning BC in the same sentence as Dartmouth is a grave insult to all Dartmouth students is a dead giveaway that it’s the same nut.

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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.

Isn't this pretty much how it is at all private schools, though, not just those ones?
Some top schools still give preference to legacy or big donations...

It’s the combination of students whose parents can pay 90k with academic mediocrity that grates on a lot of BC haterzz nerves.

it's just you BC hater. still going at it unit the thread is locked. good for you?

There are many posters criticizing BC.

But you're so obvious with your numerous weird criticisms and odd fixation of peers and tiers. And you keep coming back for more. It's you. You're the problem.

The thing where he acts like mentioning BC in the same sentence as Dartmouth is a grave insult to all Dartmouth students is a dead giveaway that it’s the same nut.

He has so many tells. But none better than he can leave no post without his response!

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Anonymous wrote:How is the financial aid situation at BC? Solidly middle class OP, did you get a financial aid offer?

From AI: Over 60% of undergraduate students receive some form of financial aid, including grants, scholarships, and loans. The university aims to meet the full demonstrated need of all admitted students.

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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.

Isn't this pretty much how it is at all private schools, though, not just those ones?
Some top schools still give preference to legacy or big donations...

It’s the combination of students whose parents can pay 90k with academic mediocrity that grates on a lot of BC haterzz nerves.

it's just you BC hater. still going at it unit the thread is locked. good for you?

There are many posters criticizing BC.

But you're so obvious with your numerous weird criticisms and odd fixation of peers and tiers. And you keep coming back for more. It's you. You're the problem.

The thing where he acts like mentioning BC in the same sentence as Dartmouth is a grave insult to all Dartmouth students is a dead giveaway that it’s the same nut.

You treat better schools like Bloody Mary and a mirror, if you keep chanting BC is as good as Dartmouth over and over it’ll climb in the ranks.

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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.

BC is ranked #37

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90k for a school ranked 37, better go to state flagship schools and invest the savings

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It is the breeding ground of the Irish Catholic elite and people hate Irish Catholics because we were the first vilified immigrant group to assimilate in this country and did so perhaps too well, antagonizing every other group in the process.

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Anonymous wrote:It is the breeding ground of the Irish Catholic elite and people hate Irish Catholics because we were the first vilified immigrant group to assimilate in this country and did so perhaps too well, antagonizing every other group in the process.

The Kennedys never went there. Nice try.

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The university aims to meet the full demonstrated need of all admitted students.

We liked BC when we toured for the reasons many have stated. The price tag raised my DH's eyebrows and if I recall, the financial aid package was mostly loans.

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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?

The point is these people who scoff at former commuter schools or schools for working class immigrants don’t seem to understand how successful these schools were in allowing working class students to be well educated and rise to the top. You would probably have to be from Massachusetts to truly understand how BC, NEU,Suffolk and others contributed to Massachusetts being consistently on top as the most educated state.

The comparison to Eureka is just stupid.

Schools like Harvard have always educated people from all over the world. BC and others allowed a larger part of the state’s population to become teachers, judges, mayors, and many other careers. Like a lot of schools around the country they have broadened their reach. Don’t try to make that a negative.

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

. He went to BC Law which was also part of commuter schools

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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?

The point is these people who scoff at former commuter schools or schools for working class immigrants don’t seem to understand how successful these schools were in allowing working class students to be well educated and rise to the top. You would probably have to be from Massachusetts to truly understand how BC, NEU,Suffolk and others contributed to Massachusetts being consistently on top as the most educated state.

The comparison to Eureka is just stupid.

Schools like Harvard have always educated people from all over the world. BC and others allowed a larger part of the state’s population to become teachers, judges, mayors, and many other careers. Like a lot of schools around the country they have broadened their reach. Don’t try to make that a negative.

Most elite schools have a different history. You’re better off going to a school with a gilded past than one that transforms Joe Schmoe into a pensioned HS gym teacher.

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The university aims to meet the full demonstrated need of all admitted students.

We liked BC when we toured for the reasons many have stated. The price tag raised my DH's eyebrows and if I recall, the financial aid package was mostly loans.

400k in non dischargeable debt is a nightmare decision for an 18 year old to make.

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Anonymous wrote:It is the breeding ground of the Irish Catholic elite and people hate Irish Catholics because we were the first vilified immigrant group to assimilate in this country and did so perhaps too well, antagonizing every other group in the process.

The Kennedys never went there. Nice try.

DP. Some of the grandchildren attended.