Trying to compare Boston Colleges for DC

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Anonymous wrote:BC's campus and culture obviously fits the parochial school pipeline stereotype, but you don't have to be Catholic to attend. Just be aware that an awful lot of its students came from feeder catholic schools, and at a lot of these schools, sports and partying were pretty big deals. The OP may be looking at that.

Northeastern's campus is a nice compromise from BU's disconnected one and BC's more suburban one. Out of all these schools, school spirit would be hardest to find at BU, and that's just because it is so diverse. All these schools attract students from all over the world, not just from all over the US, so you'll get a true multicultural vibe.

The OP didn't mention the career goals of their child, but that should factor into the equation. Economics as a pre-professional degree entry point? Math for Wall Street? BC is the best for getting into finance, with NEU and BU behind it. Northeastern has a very strong quant reputation if you are looking for a combination of math and econ. Tufts isn't known for that type of career. Of the four, BC gives out the least amount of merit aid. Run the NPC and see what grant aid they'll offer, although when we did it, each of the colleges were within a few thousand dollars of one another.

You’ve distilled BC to a school that attracts students from “partying” high schools? Come on. It’s a lot easier to get into a bar near BU or NEU.

Obviously you never went to Mary Ann’s.

Or Cityside! Or Play it Again Sam's, or Great Scotts (which is opening again soon).

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

What does this even mean?

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

Why I wouldn’t want my kid at a religious school.[/quote

Or maybe you should ignore this weird comment because I never met anyone at BC with this sort of lens on life.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're considering BC, they are still test optional for next year, but if you have above a 1350, they really want you to submit it, especially if that score is high for your community/high school.

To be fair, only 28% of freshmen submitted an SAT score. With other colleges going test mandatory again, look for BC to change in the near future. A metric that isn't published, but should be, is the admission rate for those NOT submitting an SAT score. For BC, I bet it is lower than those who did submit.

For BC Freshman fall 2023, 44% submitted scores, 28% (SAT) + 16% (ACT). DS will start next week but we’ve been given the impression that many more submitted scores this year.

Yes, we were told that many more submitted scores last year at an info session this summer. Also implied that might be going to test required for high school class of 2026.

We were told something similar at both BU and NEU tours. These crazy high SATs, where a 1490 doesn't get submitted makes zero sense. We just look at pre-covid scores and base submit or not on that.
One thing we were told over and over at BU and NEU that if its your top choice, do ED. Most of the q & A revolved around that.

i don't know if it is true or not, but BC has more student athletes because of football, so more ED slots are taken by recruited athletes than at Tufts, BU or NEU.

Yes, BC has D1 athletes, but they don't gobble up the ED spots.
For BC, absolutely go ED1 (or ED2) if it's your top choice. (We're full pay, so I can't say how this actually works but BC says you can get out of the ED agreement if you can't get the FA you expected.)

You can totally get out of ED contracts if the reasonably expected FA isn't there.

It's still annoying that the BU/BC kind of schools are pushing for ED.

I get it for Chicago and Northwestern and Duke and so on. But Tulane and Northeastern?

Goodbye.

I don't love anything I don't know. BC/BU being very presumptuous.

There are ton of smart high stat kids who don't have fancy ECs, exotic sports, rich dads, ALDC status.
A lot of these kids are like F the BS and ED to schools like Emory, NYU, CMU, Tufts, BU, BC, Northeastern these days.

CMU, Emory, and NYU Stern ED are still very difficult compared to the others listed especially NE. High stats only will not cut it, we have this same convo about these schools and people act shocked in December when DC doesn't get in.

ED also helps for Emory - a lot

High stats only won't cut it for all these schools when they have single digit acceptance rates.
However ED boosts a lot for these schools.

ED provides a big boost for NYU non-Stern, NEU, BU, Tufts (I think Tufts has the biggest boost). CMU I don't believe gives a very big bump at all. Last year, 4515 applied ED, and only 615 were accepted. That's a 7% acceptance rate. NYU's is rumored to be something like 38%. It stopped publishing its number, much like Tufts did. Probably to "hide" the higher rate.

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BC has pretty sizeable non-Catholic population. You're in the minority if you aren't Catholic, but that won't stop you from experiencing everything the college has to offer.

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For all the Tufts teeth-gnashing, Tufts this year received a record amount of Early Decision applicants. It also received a huge increase in international applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the Tufts teeth-gnashing, Tufts this year received a record amount of Early Decision applicants. It also received a huge increase in international applicants.

That's because everyone knows they fill 60-70% of their class with ED applicants--the fact that they do not publish their common data set is revealing in this regard.

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Anonymous wrote:For all the Tufts teeth-gnashing, Tufts this year received a record amount of Early Decision applicants. It also received a huge increase in international applicants.

That's because everyone knows they fill 60-70% of their class with ED applicants--the fact that they do not publish their common data set is revealing in this regard.

This is blatantly not true. According to the Tufts admissions blog, they enroll the majority of their students through the regular decision process. You can read it here if you don't believe me. https://admissions.tufts.edu/blogs/inside-admissions/post/is-it-easier-to-get-in-ed-2/

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

What does this even mean?

It means that poster is a bigot and a troll. ignore.

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

What does this even mean?

It means that poster is a bigot and a troll. ignore.

I don't think the poster is intending to be a bigot, or is trolling. I think that if you are a devout Catholic, you may be paired with someone who doesn't share your value system. BC is still an overwhelmingly Catholic school and that there are definitely anti-Catholic bigots out there. So the poster is probably just putting out there to be watchful for dorm pairings. I don't think that is terribly unreasonable. At the same time, people don't have to share the same values, but as long as they are respectful and tolerant, who cares? College is about learning and gaining new experiences.

Any religious school is going to get this dynamic. BC, Notre Dame, Hillsdale, Baylor, BYU.

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

What does this even mean?

It means that poster is a bigot and a troll. ignore.

I don't think the poster is intending to be a bigot, or is trolling. I think that if you are a devout Catholic, you may be paired with someone who doesn't share your value system. BC is still an overwhelmingly Catholic school and that there are definitely anti-Catholic bigots out there. So the poster is probably just putting out there to be watchful for dorm pairings. I don't think that is terribly unreasonable. At the same time, people don't have to share the same values, but as long as they are respectful and tolerant, who cares? College is about learning and gaining new experiences.

Any religious school is going to get this dynamic. BC, Notre Dame, Hillsdale, Baylor, BYU.

Just stop. Do not put BC or ND in the same breath as H or BYU (I don't know Baylor). There is no comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

What does this even mean?

It means that poster is a bigot and a troll. ignore.

I don't think the poster is intending to be a bigot, or is trolling. I think that if you are a devout Catholic, you may be paired with someone who doesn't share your value system. BC is still an overwhelmingly Catholic school and that there are definitely anti-Catholic bigots out there. So the poster is probably just putting out there to be watchful for dorm pairings. I don't think that is terribly unreasonable. At the same time, people don't have to share the same values, but as long as they are respectful and tolerant, who cares? College is about learning and gaining new experiences.

Any religious school is going to get this dynamic. BC, Notre Dame, Hillsdale, Baylor, BYU.

Just stop. Do not put BC or ND in the same breath as H or BYU (I don't know Baylor). There is no comparison.

Why/ They are all religious schools. I'd also put Providence College, Villanova in there too.

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82% of Notre Dame's students are Catholic. In the US only 20% identify as Catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:Make sure to vet the people in your child’s dorm if you go to BC. They’ve been diversifying, and it’s Been awful for DC and our family. Really disappointing changes that don’t align with Catholic faith

What does this even mean?

It means that poster is a bigot and a troll. ignore.

I don't think the poster is intending to be a bigot, or is trolling. I think that if you are a devout Catholic, you may be paired with someone who doesn't share your value system. BC is still an overwhelmingly Catholic school and that there are definitely anti-Catholic bigots out there. So the poster is probably just putting out there to be watchful for dorm pairings. I don't think that is terribly unreasonable. At the same time, people don't have to share the same values, but as long as they are respectful and tolerant, who cares? College is about learning and gaining new experiences.

Any religious school is going to get this dynamic. BC, Notre Dame, Hillsdale, Baylor, BYU.

Just stop. Do not put BC or ND in the same breath as H or BYU (I don't know Baylor). There is no comparison.

Why/ They are all religious schools. I'd also put Providence College, Villanova in there too.

If you don't know the vast religious/cultural differences among these colleges you really out to sit down and listen -- not make lists and draw conclusions.

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Anonymous wrote:82% of Notre Dame's students are Catholic. In the US only 20% identify as Catholic.

More than 70% identify as Christians, so...