Xavier

[Anonymous]

This school has come up on DS's radar. Any thoughts? Not into basketball or Catholicism.

[Anonymous]

In New Orleans?

[Anonymous]

Ohio

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ohio

ok, I've no knowledge.

[Anonymous]

It's a Jesuit university. Jesuits are learned, thinking, questioning men, so even if you aren't into Catholicism you wouldn't find a ton to be offended by with the Jesuits. If you wouldn't mind your son going to Georgetown - from a religious perspective - you wouldn't mind Xavier. It's small - less than 5,000 ugrads from a wide variety of faiths. It has a low faculty/student ratio and is very student focused - undergraduates outnumber graduate students 2:1. It has a high graduation rate and strong academics.

It is NOT in a "walkable" community so your kid would need a car.

What else do you want to know?

[Anonymous]

OP -- I am from Cincy and took a few classes at Xavier and my brother graduated from there. I graduated from U. of Cincy.

Xavier is in an "iffy" neighborhood. It's not hard to get into. It's fine but you can find good Catholic Universities closer such as Loyola in Baltimore.

If you're from this area, it's not worth it to go there. My eye doctor's kid goes there. She likes it but she didn't get in anywhere better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This school has come up on DS's radar. Any thoughts? Not into basketball or Catholicism.

What is appealing to DS? Basketball and Catholicism are two of the things tat one might think of as draws - unless Cincinnati has some appeal?

Jesuit schools offer a unique experience, but X is middle of the pack so it would be helpful to know what the attraction is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a Jesuit university. Jesuits are learned, thinking, questioning men, so even if you aren't into Catholicism you wouldn't find a ton to be offended by with the Jesuits. If you wouldn't mind your son going to Georgetown - from a religious perspective - you wouldn't mind Xavier. It's small - less than 5,000 ugrads from a wide variety of faiths. It has a low faculty/student ratio and is very student focused - undergraduates outnumber graduate students 2:1. It has a high graduation rate and strong academics.

It is NOT in a "walkable" community so your kid would need a car.

What else do you want to know?

Exactly what I was looking to find out; thank you. I am a product of a Catholic university, but we aren't practicing so I don't want it to be a campus focus as it was at my school. I also don't want the population to be 90% Catholic high school grads, fresh out of their plaid uniforms, because that's how it was at my college. I think there's' a lot of merit in the Jesuit approach. He's interested in business and advertising; solid student but not top-tier. We are looking at schools that might be interested in drawing in smart kids from different geographic areas, and he is not especially interested in staying close to DC -- which is as it should be, really.

I am thinking he may have been contacted by the school via test results and for some reason he's intrigued. Thanks again for the input!

[Anonymous]

My Dad went to St. Francis Xavier, in Nova Scotia....every now and then I hear about someone going there and it reminds me of him. I guess this isn't one of those times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My Dad went to St. Francis Xavier, in Nova Scotia....every now and then I hear about someone going there and it reminds me of him. I guess this isn't one of those times.

Francis Xavier and Ignatius of Loyola were co-founders of the Society of Jesus (aka "the Jesuits), so you'll find a lot of Jesuit schools called Loyola or Xavier.

[Anonymous]

I went to Loyola in Baltimore and loved it. You might consider visiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Loyola in Baltimore and loved it. You might consider visiting.

Traditional Jesuit Universities (Georgetown and BC have moved away from the model) tend to produce highly satisfied, well-adjusted graduates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a Jesuit university. Jesuits are learned, thinking, questioning men, so even if you aren't into Catholicism you wouldn't find a ton to be offended by with the Jesuits. If you wouldn't mind your son going to Georgetown - from a religious perspective - you wouldn't mind Xavier. It's small - less than 5,000 ugrads from a wide variety of faiths. It has a low faculty/student ratio and is very student focused - undergraduates outnumber graduate students 2:1. It has a high graduation rate and strong academics.

It is NOT in a "walkable" community so your kid would need a car.

What else do you want to know?

Exactly what I was looking to find out; thank you. I am a product of a Catholic university, but we aren't practicing so I don't want it to be a campus focus as it was at my school. I also don't want the population to be 90% Catholic high school grads, fresh out of their plaid uniforms, because that's how it was at my college. I think there's' a lot of merit in the Jesuit approach. He's interested in business and advertising; solid student but not top-tier. We are looking at schools that might be interested in drawing in smart kids from different geographic areas, and he is not especially interested in staying close to DC -- which is as it should be, really.

I am thinking he may have been contacted by the school via test results and for some reason he's intrigued. Thanks again for the input!

It sounds like he might be a good candidate for Xavier. A family member and multiple friends went to Xavier. I'm providing only very rough detail but the family member was a business major and has made a very successful career moving up the ladder at P&G before moving to an even more visible position at another large corporation. Another friend is a successful attorney. Yes, anecdote is not the same as data, but my point is that it sounds like your son might be a good fit with the school.