What colleges are in Boston College's tier group?

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Anonymous wrote:BC is in no.mans land territory. Honestly is about as prestigious as Georgia Tech or Tufts. All three are respected in certain fields but as a whole they're near the top of the 2nd tier. BC has surprisingly good investment banking placement better than Vanderbilt WashU, Rice, UT. Slightly below Emory/Notre Dame.

Nothing wrong with that.

I agree but the second tier is not elite. UVA and Umich, Wellesley are the very bottom of elite imo. Like scape the barrel bottom.

No one on here or other forums or in high finance says UVA Wellesley UMich are $hit schools. They may think they’re disappointing outcomes for a terrific applicant. Some do say BC is a trash destination.

We're saying the same thing, if would be disappointed but they're best schools I'm willing to pay for.

Agreed. A very good applicant would be furious with BC. They’d have disappointment but maybe contentment with the others. At least, it wouldn’t be a given they’d try to transfer out like at BC.

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Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

Not any of those in 2025. 20 years ago not even. NYU is probably the closest.

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Georgetown and Notre Dame are above BC. BC's peer groups are more like Tufts, Northeastern, Holy Cross, NYU, Wake, UVA, etc.

Most students at BC had their first choice be Georgetown or Notre Dame I'm sure.

UVA hater. UVa is also better, NYU too.

UVA and BC are the same tier to anyone not affiliated with UVA or BC.

Not at all. UVA has a much better reputation among people who matter and the alumni connections are better. It’s also ridiculous how much “community” and “student life” is thrown around when boosting BC when Boston has the strictest bars and there are no fraternities. If you want to have a couple shots in your dorm room and call it a wild Friday night at 11pm then go to BC.

I don’t know what you’re talking about, and your response is mostly just speculation about “people who matter.” They’re the same thing.

BC has horrible student life once you move beyond watching thugs on a football field or basketball court. There are no fraternities and Boston bars actually card you to see if you’re 21.

People who matter don’t hold BC in high regard or in the same regard as NYU WUSTL UCLA Emory. Do I need to be clearer? What confuses you? Do Jesuit schools no longer teach logic and reasoning?

More nonsensical bs. The first paragraph has nothing to do with school, just your personal crusade against Boston, which I don’t care about.

Still no actual analysis, pure speculative BS. I’m not affiliated with Boston College, but I can reason you have serious emotional issues

Got it, student life has no place when assessing schools or where to go. Please be clearer next time.

You take this forum and BC way too seriously. 😳

I’ve never seen someone so delusional and trying so hard to get a response out of someone.

MIT is rigorous and intense. I’m not going to rank it lower or say it isn’t peers with more “fun” schools, because that’s a silly take. Your posts are silly, and you live off of trolling people with your crappy ideas, because it fills the loneliness in your heart and covers up your overwhelming issues AA a failure.

No when analyzing schools I don’t weigh “ability to get away with a fake id” over education. Sorry if that’s not what “the people who matter” want.

BC shills have consistently pointed to community life and student well being as a reason to go to BC. I didn’t bring it up.

MIT actually has a very hard partying weekend life on and off campus that is more fun than BC.

Rich kids who make their mark go to bars on weekends. So do brilliant PhDs without two pennies to rub together. Only a troll stays in their dorm all day like at BC after fanboying some mediocre linebacker.

Np, they have fun off campus at MIT but BC students don’t have access to that same fun? I’m sniffing a ton of BS from these posts, and think some of you are Russian bots. The lack of reasoning skills is telling.

Have you taken an uber from chestnut hill to Cambridge and back? Want to do that every weekend night? Have you seen the kind of people who go to Brighton bars?

Just not my question at all. They aren’t even that far apart, Boston isn’t massive and it takes no time to light rail around. This just sounds, once again, like propaganda to divide people.

That is a long T ride and it doesn’t run late. Taking Ubers like that regularly is out of the budget of most BC students. If you want easier access to bars when you’re 21 (since Boston cards), go to MIT. It shouldn’t be tough since it’s a similar caliber school as BC.

You're not talking about the same BC that costs $90k and most of our kids attend ED1 (aka full pay).

Congrats, your child’s class took out non-dischargeable student loans for a Mickey Mouse degree that gets dragged online for 20+ pages and most of your rebuttals are no better than yelling “Player Haterz”

Tom from Towson learned how to respond anonymously. Congrats I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

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Crazy I think you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

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Crazy I think you are.

don't mind me I'm in a covid fog

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

Not any of those in 2025. 20 years ago not even. NYU is probably the closest.

BC really isn’t in that tier, can anyone give a decent reasoning why other than saying it’s a close community (it’s not), it has great academics (it doesn’t), and that is attracts loaded students from NYC and Boston (it doesn’t)?

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In the northeast, BC is like the schools in the Boston area- BU, Northeastern, Tufts, maybe Brandeis, then in the New York area NYU, maybe Fordham, then in Philadelphia area Villanova. For mid-atlantic UVA Georgetown, then in the midwest Notre Dame. I know that Notre Dame is supposedly a better school but both being overwhelmingly Catholic they are a lot more similar. In the south you have Emory, Wake, Tulane, and UMiami.

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point of fact: Wake acceptance rate 22%; BC acceptance rate 14%
both great schools if it's the right fit

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Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is like the schools in the Boston area- BU, Northeastern, Tufts, maybe Brandeis, then in the New York area NYU, maybe Fordham, then in Philadelphia area Villanova. For mid-atlantic UVA Georgetown, then in the midwest Notre Dame. I know that Notre Dame is supposedly a better school but both being overwhelmingly Catholic they are a lot more similar. In the south you have Emory, Wake, Tulane, and UMiami.

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Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is like the schools in the Boston area- BU, Northeastern, Tufts, maybe Brandeis, then in the New York area NYU, maybe Fordham, then in Philadelphia area Villanova. For mid-atlantic UVA Georgetown, then in the midwest Notre Dame. I know that Notre Dame is supposedly a better school but both being overwhelmingly Catholic they are a lot more similar. In the south you have Emory, Wake, Tulane, and UMiami.

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It is nothing like ND Gtown and Emory. Real students attend those schools. At least students at Wake have some class. BC is a four year HS reunion for Boston Catholic schools where a 1350 is regarded as genius territory.

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Anonymous wrote:point of fact: Wake acceptance rate 22%; BC acceptance rate 14%
both great schools if it's the right fit

BC parents punching their laptops as we speak, upset they took out 90k in loans for Susie’s “School”

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Anonymous wrote:point of fact: Wake acceptance rate 22%; BC acceptance rate 14%
both great schools if it's the right fit

BC parents punching their laptops as we speak, upset they took out 90k in loans for Susie’s “School”

sorry, this happens when I mix my drugs and alcohol

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is like the schools in the Boston area- BU, Northeastern, Tufts, maybe Brandeis, then in the New York area NYU, maybe Fordham, then in Philadelphia area Villanova. For mid-atlantic UVA Georgetown, then in the midwest Notre Dame. I know that Notre Dame is supposedly a better school but both being overwhelmingly Catholic they are a lot more similar. In the south you have Emory, Wake, Tulane, and UMiami.

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It is nothing like ND Gtown and Emory. Real students attend those schools. At least students at Wake have some class. BC is a four year HS reunion for Boston Catholic schools where a 1350 is regarded as genius territory.

I joined DCUM yesterday just to trash BC because the girl I stalked all through high school goes there.

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Anonymous wrote:point of fact: Wake acceptance rate 22%; BC acceptance rate 14%
both great schools if it's the right fit

BC parents punching their laptops as we speak, upset they took out 90k in loans for Susie’s “School”

sorry, this happens when I mix my drugs and alcohol

Come back when you have a reason why BC can kiss Georgetown or ND or Vanderbilt’s feet, let alone be in the same tier.

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Anonymous wrote:BC has several factors going for it that are hard to match - a beautiful campus, rah rah / big sports atmosphere, safe location near a major urban center with lots of other students, and mid-size university with professional schools.

Add to those factors the fact that there are two populations for whom BC is a pinnacle - Catholics and many other New Englanders. There's a Catholic school pipeline that's been around forever. And even for non-Catholics a BC degree is perceived as an attractive pathway to UMC life in the area. Overstating just slightly, BC can provide more powerful networking in the greater Boston/New England than Harvard. Sports has helped take that reputation national. I'm not a BC grad (from a Holy Cross family who hated BC) but I can see how it's become so hot.

Now Georgetown has all this and more prestige; ND has more prestige but a less desirable area.

Personally I think BU is an undervalued alternative, although it's also gotten much more competitive. But there's a tendency to be snotty about the lack of a campus feel (even though it's in a great area of the actual city.)

Whoever is saying Wake is a harder admit is out of their mind.