What colleges are in Boston College's tier group?

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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.

no lies detected

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.

Keep explaining why you’re as good as Vanderbilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University

[Anonymous]

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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.

All of this was taken apart piece by piece. BC should lose its accreditation after the caliber of responses in this thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University

lol but the network is better than HARVARD!!!!

[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.

no lies detected

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.

Keep explaining why you’re as good as Vanderbilt.

Point proven.

[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.

no lies detected

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.

Keep explaining why you’re as good as Vanderbilt.

Point proven.

Absolutely insane people. BC should pay you for marketing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

no lies detected

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.

Keep explaining why you’re as good as Vanderbilt.

Point proven.

Absolutely insane people. BC should pay you for marketing.

Tom from Towson

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure Tom goes back and forth between the user name and anonymous to make it appear there’s more than 1 anti-BC troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure Tom goes back and forth between the user name and anonymous to make it appear there’s more than 1 anti-BC troll.

You are now at the “Russian bots and one persistent poster are making all the BC posts because it is impossible for ANYONE else to disagree that it’s the Oxford of America”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University

[Anonymous]

These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University


Where are ND Georgetown NYU Emory???!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty sure Tom goes back and forth between the user name and anonymous to make it appear there’s more than 1 anti-BC troll.

You are now at the “Russian bots and one persistent poster are making all the BC posts because it is impossible for ANYONE else to disagree that it’s the Oxford of America”

Tom, you're now just repeating yourself. You said this same garbage an hour ago. Give it a rest. You hate BC. We got it. Let others have a word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University


Where are ND Georgetown NYU Emory???!!!

higher than 5 spots away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.

University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University


Where are ND Georgetown NYU Emory???!!!

higher than 5 spots away?

Sucks to suck

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Umiami
NYU
Northeastern
BU
Fordham
Villanova
Holy Cross

I think Emory, ND, Georgetown are a different tier

Maybe or maybe not academically- but BC seems just as hard to get in. I would put it at the low end of the Emory ND Georgetown tier. BC way tougher than any of the schools above.

Not the same based on our high school Scoir scatterplots. RD into BC typically get in to William and Mary Out of state, some get into Wake some do not, Wake is a touch harder, Emory and GTown and Notre Dame are all another notch harder for RD. Our school sends 8-10% unhooked to T20s. BC in RD is a common likely for the top 10% as is Wake, those two would be matches for the students in the top 1/3 but not the top 10%, assuming equal rigor and all that.
Holy Cross, Nova, Fordham are much easuer than BC and are for bottom-half kids but also used as backups for the kids around top 1/3 in case they do not get into T30-40 range.
Just over 10% of the high school takes BC calc in 11th and Vector/Linear in 12th, as a normal track. AP physics C is common in 11th for about 20% of the class.AP language or Lit is done in 10th by more than half the school. We do college level English semesters after that. Its a pretty rigorous school but we have a lot who get in to Boston College in RD.

BC is much harder to get into than Wake. Not even close. Agree it’s slightly easier vs ND Georgetown and Tufts.

BC and Wake are alike as two colleges can be. Historically Wake has been rated a tier higher, before the ratings criteria change in 2023.p, by IS News. I’d put Tufts, Emory USC, UCLAand UVA in this group as well.

NO! UCLA, Emory, Georgetown>UVa,USC> Tufts, BC> Wake

Mostly correct. Whether BC is hard to get into or not (it is not if you are a high caliber student), BC students become RNs, work in treasury services at banks, become public school teachers, or enter compliance at State Street. Students from NYU, Georgetown, Emory, ND, and USC are much more likely to become doctors, enter investment or commercial banking, or become consultants. BC still takes middling students from places like BC High or Weymouth, whereas students from Deerfield and Andover with a similar profile would rather go to more fun colleges without a Catholic affiliation, such as Wake. If you are interested in social prestige and having those types of doors opened up, you go to Wake and not BC. BC still has a poor reputation in better Boston circles.

You are incorrect. All of the BC alumns I know are either high up in IB or Commodities on Wall Street or partners is large Law Firms. Your info is so outdated.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

What's wrong with Risk management? Pays well good WLB

It is not FO. If you go to a school like Stern or better you are not optimizing for WLB. If you go to Wake you are from a better background than the types who enter middle and back office roles.

What an utter snob you are. Gross.