Why the hate for Boston College?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston C , Boston U , Northeastern etc belong in the same group …. Same c*ap

Yup

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^+1

[Anonymous]

Let's take USNWR rank for private colleges to search for what's ahead of BC in the rankings. It ticks a lot of boxes for people in terms of size, location, sports, majors, happy students, and a feeling of wanting to help others in this world. Employers on this thread have commented positively (some even admittedly begrudgingly) on the students coming out of BC. The DCUM resident BC hater will come and argue how "massive" the difference is between the #s of the rankings. Ok. Fortunately, our kids have options and hopefully can choose a college that best suits them, which is our goal, right?

ND (18)
Vanderbilt (18)
CMU (21)
WUSTL (21)
Emory (24)
Georgetown (24)
NYU (30)
BC (37)
Tufts (37)

[Anonymous]

Forgot BU at 41

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's take USNWR rank for private colleges to search for what's ahead of BC in the rankings. It ticks a lot of boxes for people in terms of size, location, sports, majors, happy students, and a feeling of wanting to help others in this world. Employers on this thread have commented positively (some even admittedly begrudgingly) on the students coming out of BC. The DCUM resident BC hater will come and argue how "massive" the difference is between the #s of the rankings. Ok. Fortunately, our kids have options and hopefully can choose a college that best suits them, which is our goal, right?

ND (18)
Vanderbilt (18)
CMU (21)
WUSTL (21)
Emory (24)
Georgetown (24)
NYU (30)
BC (37)
Tufts (37)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven’t read all 18 pages so not sure how many that replied actually live and hire in boston but contributing my two cents.

Full disclosure, not a bc fan and try not to hire at the catholic private colleges if I can help it.

However, BC consistently sends the strongest applicants to us. We hire in the policy/politics/consulting space —

We need people who can write well, with quick turnaround, follow directions, that we can stick in meetings with principals, can grasp concepts pretty rapidly and show some initiative—

We don’t have the profile or pay to get H, Dartmouth or the tippy top lac’s grads…

Tufts and BC are far and away the bulk of our best applicants…with the BC cohort having far more external polish and communication skills.

We’ve never had a dud BC hire

To compare BC to BU, NEU etc is asinine.

To be honest, does BC provide $360k worth of polish? Debatable — I think college is very overrated outside of a certain majors and we could probably take a strong big 3 dc or similar private kid up here in boston and train them up in a year….

But in the system we currently have, BC does a good job filtering kids who can plug into white collar major city work and play culture

Yeah, whatever dude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston C , Boston U , Northeastern etc belong in the same group …. Same c*ap

Nope.

Same group = selective colleges in a great college city.

Keep hating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's take USNWR rank for private colleges to search for what's ahead of BC in the rankings. It ticks a lot of boxes for people in terms of size, location, sports, majors, happy students, and a feeling of wanting to help others in this world. Employers on this thread have commented positively (some even admittedly begrudgingly) on the students coming out of BC. The DCUM resident BC hater will come and argue how "massive" the difference is between the #s of the rankings. Ok. Fortunately, our kids have options and hopefully can choose a college that best suits them, which is our goal, right?

ND (18)
Vanderbilt (18)
CMU (21)
WUSTL (21)
Emory (24)
Georgetown (24)
NYU (30)
BC (37)
Tufts (37)

The comparison for BC fanboys goes in one direction. Heaven forbid BC be compared to Holy Cross or Fairfield

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston C , Boston U , Northeastern etc belong in the same group …. Same c*ap

Nope.

Same group = selective colleges in a great college city.

Keep hating.

lol at NEU being selective

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forgot BU at 41

Better campus than BC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Forgot BU at 41

Better campus than BC

Come on, you can troll better than that. That's like a really bad dad joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boston C , Boston U , Northeastern etc belong in the same group …. Same c*ap

Nope.

Same group = selective colleges in a great college city.

Keep hating.

lol at NEU being selective

Welcome to the year 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's take USNWR rank for private colleges to search for what's ahead of BC in the rankings. It ticks a lot of boxes for people in terms of size, location, sports, majors, happy students, and a feeling of wanting to help others in this world. Employers on this thread have commented positively (some even admittedly begrudgingly) on the students coming out of BC. The DCUM resident BC hater will come and argue how "massive" the difference is between the #s of the rankings. Ok. Fortunately, our kids have options and hopefully can choose a college that best suits them, which is our goal, right?

ND (18)
Vanderbilt (18)
CMU (21)
WUSTL (21)
Emory (24)
Georgetown (24)
NYU (30)
BC (37)
Tufts (37)

The comparison for BC fanboys goes in one direction. Heaven forbid BC be compared to Holy Cross or Fairfield

This is USNWR rank of “what’s ahead of BC”. You can look up others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Forgot BU at 41

Better campus than BC

If your criteria is a to find a true urban campus, sure, BU is urban and BC is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Forgot BU at 41

Better campus than BC

If your criteria is a to find a true urban campus, sure, BU is urban and BC is not.

BU is on the water in an upscale neighborhood. BC is by Newton strip malls and Cleveland Circke Kwik Marts that sell sexual performance supplements, non-FDA approved of course.