Is Boston College a rich kid school?

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Anonymous wrote:We are in Boston. Went to visit last summer, my laid back jewish kid hated it. Campus is beautiful but catholic landmarks everywhere which was a turnoff for him. The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats. I know people who go/went there love it but not for my son. He loved BU and Brandeis, even umass amherst more than bc

Well, yes. It seems logical that a ...Catholic school would have physical indicators that it is Catholic.

Thank you PP. That “turnoff” line made me LOL too. It cracks me up when people are shocked that they’re not able to ignore something they don’t want. It’s a Catholic school whether you want it to be or not. I would get why a Jewish kid would feel infinitely more at home at BU or Brandeis. UMass Amherst is THE party school in the MA state system so I’m not surprised when ANY college kid feels at home there!

But back to the point, sadly BC has gotten too big for it’s britches and priced out the very demographic it was founded to serve. Blue collar Catholic kids can no longer afford it (or get in!) so some of the smaller Catholic colleges fill that gap. BC does its best to hold a Catholic identity even with increasingly secular students and sometimes controversial Jesuit influences.

This is kind of a silly statement-- would be like saying College Park is "THE party school in the MD state system." Once upon a time UMass had a party school rep but those days are long gone, along with the days it accepted everyone who applied. I suppose it might be the most party-like school in the UMass system but mostly because there isn't unfortunately much of a MA state system (too much historic reliance on the private colleges, although there are campuses in Lowell and Boston plus a few state colleges).

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My cousin's boys went to BC. Not a wealthy family - fairly comfortable middle class parents who all went to non-elite Catholic elementary and high schools. Got some merit money but not a lot. Admin there was welcoming, and I don't think they felt like the "poor souls" there among the richer kids. Both enthusiastic grads who had no trouble fitting in.

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Why would anyone go to bc over gtown?

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Anonymous wrote:We are in Boston. Went to visit last summer, my laid back jewish kid hated it. Campus is beautiful but catholic landmarks everywhere which was a turnoff for him. The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats. I know people who go/went there love it but not for my son. He loved BU and Brandeis, even umass amherst more than bc

Liar. No kid who is "very much into...frats" goes to BC. Boston College, like other Jesuit schools, does not recognize fraternities. They don't allow advertisements or notices or fliers for "frats" on campus, and there is no school sanctioned rush week or Greek events. There are, apparently, some students who banded together off campus to make up "frats" that are like non-school sanctioned clubs, but they are small and I never met anybody who belonged to one during my time at BC.

Kids who are "into frats" go to BU. Or MIT, which, unlike BC, has on-campus frat houses and school-sanctioned Greek chapters.

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Anonymous wrote:Its a competitive school (as above 27% acceptance) and its CATHOLIC

so its not waspy.

Jesus.

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The opposite of WASPy. It's where Boston Irish Catholics went, back when WASPy establishment schools would not admit them.

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Exactly this. I can not fathom the number of PPs who are talking out of their arses right now. I shouldn't be surprised.

Wasp doesn’t mean Protestant anymore. It hasn’t for at least 40 years. William Buckley was a wasp and he was Catholic obviously.

LOL

You don’t know what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone go to bc over gtown?

Because they like it more, and Boston is nicer than DC?

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Anonymous wrote:BC is a great school. However, it's not in Boston (Chestnut Hill, MA) and it's not really a College (really a university).

During our tour, the guide mentioned there are some "Freshman Dorms" that are "miles" (?) from the main campus--this would bother me.

Looking forward to BC finishing their new student fitness center!

It shouldn't. The dorms on the Newton Campus are easily accessible by the BC shuttle bus, and it takes minutes to get to main campus. Also, the Newton campus houses the Law School; it isn't just an isolated field with freshmen dorms.

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Anonymous wrote:The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats.

BC has no fraternities, absolutely no greek system whatsoever, whether official or unofficial. However, it does have Division 1 sports.

sorry you are right, I was typing fast and should of wrote a "bro" culture instead. Not sure how to best describe it but it has that feel of rich spoiled boys. However, lots of our neighbors went there and are very successful good people. It just felt very off to us. Like I said, beautiful campus and a very nice stadium,some love it some hate it. Not a "safety" school though.

That's just silly. There is an UMC mentality at BC, but not a "bro" culture at all. In fact, I hung out with a large group of arty gay guys during my time there...

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Anonymous wrote:The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats.

BC has no fraternities, absolutely no greek system whatsoever, whether official or unofficial. However, it does have Division 1 sports.

Most Boston area schools do not have Greek life on campus, for liability reasons. I don't expect too many people in this area to know the facts about this kind of thing.

In addition, for those people here who think that expensive schools have mostly full pay, they do - that doesn't mean that they are inferior schools in any way - on the contrary. Get out of your bubble a little and learn something.

I went to universities in Boston for two of my degrees, so I do know "the facts about this kind of thing." Boston College is unaffiliated with any fraternities.

BU has an active Greek culture, though.

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If anyone has guesses on what date EA decisions will be announced, feel free to speculate. Current word is the week of the 17th, with the date to be announced the week before. Will it be the 20th? They seem to do it on Thursdays, but last yr was Dec 14, the year before Dec 15.

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Anonymous wrote:The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats.

BC has no fraternities, absolutely no greek system whatsoever, whether official or unofficial. However, it does have Division 1 sports.

Most Boston area schools do not have Greek life on campus, for liability reasons. I don't expect too many people in this area to know the facts about this kind of thing.

In addition, for those people here who think that expensive schools have mostly full pay, they do - that doesn't mean that they are inferior schools in any way - on the contrary. Get out of your bubble a little and learn something.

We’ve all read the horrors that happen at Penn State.

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Georgetown‘s acceptance rate was 14% last year

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Anonymous wrote:The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats.

BC has no fraternities, absolutely no greek system whatsoever, whether official or unofficial. However, it does have Division 1 sports.

Most Boston area schools do not have Greek life on campus, for liability reasons. I don't expect too many people in this area to know the facts about this kind of thing.

In addition, for those people here who think that expensive schools have mostly full pay, they do - that doesn't mean that they are inferior schools in any way - on the contrary. Get out of your bubble a little and learn something.

We’ve all read the horrors that happen at Penn State.

What does that have to do with B.C. and OP's question?

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone go to bc over gtown?

Georgetown seemed super intense and not very warm to both DD and me. We got friendlier, more collaborative vibes from BC.

Georgetown is a bit more difficult to get into than BC so I think it's a bit simplistic to act like everyone has the choice.

And a lot of kids want to go to school in a new place, so many DC-area kids rule out Georgetown for that reason.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in Boston. Went to visit last summer, my laid back jewish kid hated it. Campus is beautiful but catholic landmarks everywhere which was a turnoff for him. The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats. I know people who go/went there love it but not for my son. He loved BU and Brandeis, even umass amherst more than bc

He doesn't sound very "laid back" to me. Why wouldn't a Catholic college have Catholic landmarks???