Lafayette/Bucknell vs Nescacs

[Anonymous]

Nova is ranked min the 60s by US News. BC close to 40 neither is anywhere near Gtown, HC, or ND.

[Anonymous]

By any academic metric Holy Cross is a better academic school than Boston College and Villanova. HC has produced 5 Rhodes, BC 2, and Viillanova 3. Undergrad enrollment, HC 3,200, BC 9,500, and Villanova 7,500. Nobel Prize winners HC 1, BC 0, and Villanova 0. Comparing HC to BC/Villanova is analogous to Colgate to Syracuse or Davidson to UNC.

[Anonymous]

How did this thread become about Holy Cross?

[Anonymous]

Bucknell booster is sleeping!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By any academic metric Holy Cross is a better academic school than Boston College and Villanova. HC has produced 5 Rhodes, BC 2, and Viillanova 3. Undergrad enrollment, HC 3,200, BC 9,500, and Villanova 7,500. Nobel Prize winners HC 1, BC 0, and Villanova 0. Comparing HC to BC/Villanova is analogous to Colgate to Syracuse or Davidson to UNC.

Times have changed at a lot of schools. Holy Cross isn't what it once was. Other schools like Villanova, Boston College, Ohio State and Maryland are much better now.

[Anonymous]

^LOL! You forgot Bama and Auburn. Those 4 schools have nothing in common with a top25 LAC. Holy Cross has a 17% acceptance rate for class of 2029. Half right though HC does have the academic prestige legacy that none of those 4 ever had.

[Anonymous]

Forgot Slippery Rock is now better than HC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:By any academic metric Holy Cross is a better academic school than Boston College and Villanova. HC has produced 5 Rhodes, BC 2, and Viillanova 3. Undergrad enrollment, HC 3,200, BC 9,500, and Villanova 7,500. Nobel Prize winners HC 1, BC 0, and Villanova 0. Comparing HC to BC/Villanova is analogous to Colgate to Syracuse or Davidson to UNC.

Let's look at qualifications of incoming students:

Boston College:
SAT: 1450-1490-1520 (28% submitting); ACT: 33-34-34 (16% submitting); % in top 10%: 89.42%

Villanova:
SAT: 1410-1450-1490 (25% submitting); ACT: 32-33-34 (11% submitting); % in top 10%: 76.8%

Holy Cross:
SAT: 1270-1340-1420 (35% submitting); ACT: 28-30-32 (19% submitting); % in top 10%: 38%

It's not even close. If you want to be surrounded by more academically gifted peers, BC and Villanova are better choices.

[Anonymous]

The top 75% at Holy Cross is below the bottom 25% at BC and pretty close to that at Villanova.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^LOL! You forgot Bama and Auburn. Those 4 schools have nothing in common with a top25 LAC. Holy Cross has a 17% acceptance rate for class of 2029. Half right though HC does have the academic prestige legacy that none of those 4 ever had.

They fill a ton of the class via ED. Recently, the acceptance rate for ED was over 60 percent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Williams is mini-Dartmouth, Amherst more quirky, Bowdoin knocking at door.

My quirky Williams student and their friends would beg to differ. They didn't even apply to Amherst because it seemed much less quirky. The strength and size of Williams' art and music departments helps increase the quirk level. YMMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams is mini-Dartmouth, Amherst more quirky, Bowdoin knocking at door.

My quirky Williams student and their friends would beg to differ. They didn't even apply to Amherst because it seemed much less quirky. The strength and size of Williams' art and music departments helps increase the quirk level. YMMV

yep I recently took my DC there for an overnite. They said non-athletes seemed quirky. And the library reeked of weed

[Anonymous]

Faulty data sample size of low 11% to high 35%. All 3 schools are test optional and HC has the highest yield at 50% while BC is in low 40s. Also Holy Cross data skewed by a larger percent of their class are athletes much smaller freshman class. Skeptical of BC top 10% at 85% look at any east coast Catholic prep school they take a lot of kids much more than Gtown, ND, Stanford, Duke, Amherst. Prime examples Gtown Prep, Delbarton, Fairfield Prep.

[Anonymous]

Comparing HC a top 25 LAC with BC and Nova is apples to oranges. BC ranked 37 while Villanova 58. Also BC has multiple undergrad schools- Liberal Arts, Business, Nursing and Education. In addition they have a night school called Woods school. In 2024-2025 Bloomberg rated BC Carroll school at “51” hardly Stanford or Wharton. They have done a good job graduating nurses, teachers and others but again doesn’t have the decades of pedigree of Holy Cross, Georgetown, and certainly not Notre Dame.