Why the hate for Boston College?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC is a great and popular school. People should just be aware that they play the admissions game similarly to NEU, Tulane, and many others.

Their ED acceptance rate is about 35% and they use ED to fill much of the class. Given the school’s popularity, this significantly deflates the acceptance rate. 60% of admits are test optional.

It’s the school’s prerogative to run their business this way. And for many people it doesn’t matter. But these admissions games to perpetuate perception of prestige with kids, pressure kids into an ED decision, and to justify a $90k/year price tag, rubs some people the wrong way.

While I am not sure what the stats are for prior years, this year 75 percent of accepted students submitted test scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s one prolific poster, the BC Basher. Dude must have “BC” on a Google alert. He jumps in early and often at any thread that remotely refers to BC. Then he just goes insane with the criticisms of the students and parents (DERANGED, etc) and then makes up his own arguments to “respond” to.
If reported, Jeff will remove the crazy posts. But the BC basher remains undeterred. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn this one poster is responsible for nearly 100% of the BC “hate” on this forum.

Name one removed post. You cannot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

USC and NYU are significantly better than those other schools and require a better applicant profile.

[Anonymous]

BC has been consistently ranked 37. Its undergraduate Finance major has been ranked 7. It ticks a lot of boxes in terms of size, location, reputation, D1 sports (hockey being the front runner), close to a city & airport but also a beautiful defined campus, active student body and alum network. The school has a huge outreach to lower income and first gen college students. Regarding religion, my own opinion after having attended and had kids attend Catholic, Jesuit and public schools: BC has a great mix of all: overall feels Jesuit but not overly Catholic. The families I know are a mix of full pay, full scholarship, financial aid, coming from private and public schools and different religions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

I think this hate is mostly from Emory/WUSTL parents who are nervous that there is not much that distinguishes #20 on USNWR and #40.

BC will never be ranked higher than WUSTL and Emory. Their alums and parents are not at all worried, and the gap between 20 and 40 in USNWR is massive. People with great academic credentials do not pay BC much mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC has been consistently ranked 37. Its undergraduate Finance major has been ranked 7. It ticks a lot of boxes in terms of size, location, reputation, D1 sports (hockey being the front runner), close to a city & airport but also a beautiful defined campus, active student body and alum network. The school has a huge outreach to lower income and first gen college students. Regarding religion, my own opinion after having attended and had kids attend Catholic, Jesuit and public schools: BC has a great mix of all: overall feels Jesuit but not overly Catholic. The families I know are a mix of full pay, full scholarship, financial aid, coming from private and public schools and different religions.

Its finance major is ranked 7 because so many elite schools do not offer undergraduate business programs, BC is filling a vacuum.

It is rather far from the fun parts of Boston and Cleveland Circle (where BC students party) is a dump compared to where BU and Northeastern are.

If you want Catholic, go to Notre Dame or Georgetown. I also wouldn't pay 90k a year to be around low income and first gen students.

[Anonymous]

Same reason as why UChicago is much hated. It is thought of as a "safety" by some and pearls are clutched tight when their kids end up denied a spot at admissions.

Classic, "You weren't that good anyway"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

USC and NYU are significantly better than those other schools and require a better applicant profile.

Oh and BC Basher is a Master of Peers & Tiers. And do not dare disagree. Because his lists of peers and tiers are the best. Better than any the world has ever seen. Mark me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC has been consistently ranked 37. Its undergraduate Finance major has been ranked 7. It ticks a lot of boxes in terms of size, location, reputation, D1 sports (hockey being the front runner), close to a city & airport but also a beautiful defined campus, active student body and alum network. The school has a huge outreach to lower income and first gen college students. Regarding religion, my own opinion after having attended and had kids attend Catholic, Jesuit and public schools: BC has a great mix of all: overall feels Jesuit but not overly Catholic. The families I know are a mix of full pay, full scholarship, financial aid, coming from private and public schools and different religions.

Its finance major is ranked 7 because so many elite schools do not offer undergraduate business programs, BC is filling a vacuum.

It is rather far from the fun parts of Boston and Cleveland Circle (where BC students party) is a dump compared to where BU and Northeastern are.

If you want Catholic, go to Notre Dame or Georgetown. I also wouldn't pay 90k a year to be around low income and first gen students.

BC Basher promised to go away. So he’s a thread bully and a liar. He sits on a thread and negatively responds like a battering ram and drowns out any civil conversation. So he’s a thread-killer too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

I think this hate is mostly from Emory/WUSTL parents who are nervous that there is not much that distinguishes #20 on USNWR and #40.

BC will never be ranked higher than WUSTL and Emory. Their alums and parents are not at all worried, and the gap between 20 and 40 in USNWR is massive. People with great academic credentials do not pay BC much mind.

BC Basher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC has been consistently ranked 37. Its undergraduate Finance major has been ranked 7. It ticks a lot of boxes in terms of size, location, reputation, D1 sports (hockey being the front runner), close to a city & airport but also a beautiful defined campus, active student body and alum network. The school has a huge outreach to lower income and first gen college students. Regarding religion, my own opinion after having attended and had kids attend Catholic, Jesuit and public schools: BC has a great mix of all: overall feels Jesuit but not overly Catholic. The families I know are a mix of full pay, full scholarship, financial aid, coming from private and public schools and different religions.

Love to get this thread back on track ….
Possible?

[Anonymous]

There are lots of good schools Boston is one of them but definitely not great or elite.Villanova is a good competitor to BC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

I think this hate is mostly from Emory/WUSTL parents who are nervous that there is not much that distinguishes #20 on USNWR and #40.

BC will never be ranked higher than WUSTL and Emory. Their alums and parents are not at all worried, and the gap between 20 and 40 in USNWR is massive. People with great academic credentials do not pay BC much mind.

Have you ever spoken to one of these “the gap between 20 and 40 is massive” people in real life? They are either your kind of people or they are people you leave parties to avoid. Whenever I read a post like this, I conjure up a mental image and just roll my eyes.

[Anonymous]

I dont hate BC, but for me it is the "not worth it" line. It could have been another, similar school but when we toured I thought, nice! but also not worth 400k.

We're a full pay family. Will pay full fare at a T5. I would have paid full fare for some schools we toured. But BC was just the line for me.

You go half a step "down" or at least adjacent and you get merit. Sometimes really hefty merit. So you have to draw the "not worth it" line somewhere and for us it was BC. Possibly because it's a school with a lot of kids who look like our HS crowd. It's nice, but just more of the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some vocal haters for the highly selective semi-elite private schools especially like USC, NYU, BU, BC, NU, Tufts

Also Catholic schools get hate.