What colleges are in Boston College's tier group?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is solid T20 school.
It's definitely a level up at least.
Why are people bring it up?

Many, many kids have no interest in going to school in Indiana. Boston is a lot more appealing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

How is BC harder than NYU?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tulane, Villanova and Wake Forest are not in same league as BC.
Notre Dame and Georgetown and Tufts are together and then a slight bit down to BC and then a slight bit down to NYU.

You guys are trying to sneak in Tufts again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame is solid T20 school.
It's definitely a level up at least.
Why are people bring it up?

Many, many kids have no interest in going to school in Indiana. Boston is a lot more appealing.

Notre Dame is a level up.
Period.

[Anonymous]

This is a northeastern style BC post. It seems like the northeastern boosting has calmed down a lot. The OP doesn’t want to hear that Boston College sounds like a non elite public school. Its peers are other mid level public schools like Pittsburgh or other public sounding privates like Syracuse. It is on par with Rutgers.

[Anonymous]

No one in the world thinks Boston College is in the same tier as Georgetown or Notre Dame. It is on par with Boston University, Northeastern, University of Rochester. No prestige bump, just a regular school.

[Anonymous]

BC is not that appealing if you’re not Catholic or culturally Catholic-adjacent. After touring, it was a hard no for my kid.

[Anonymous]

If you are Irish American and not a Notre Dame type, BC is the mecca. It is a top notch school for a specific kind of student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one in the world thinks Boston College is in the same tier as Georgetown or Notre Dame. It is on par with Boston University, Northeastern, University of Rochester. No prestige bump, just a regular school.

BC, BU, Northeastern all have single digitish acceptance rates. They are little more than just a regular school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a northeastern style BC post. It seems like the northeastern boosting has calmed down a lot. The OP doesn’t want to hear that Boston College sounds like a non elite public school. Its peers are other mid level public schools like Pittsburgh or other public sounding privates like Syracuse. It is on par with Rutgers.

Moron

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one in the world thinks Boston College is in the same tier as Georgetown or Notre Dame. It is on par with Boston University, Northeastern, University of Rochester. No prestige bump, just a regular school.

I do, and I went to ND.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a northeastern style BC post. It seems like the northeastern boosting has calmed down a lot. The OP doesn’t want to hear that Boston College sounds like a non elite public school. Its peers are other mid level public schools like Pittsburgh or other public sounding privates like Syracuse. It is on par with Rutgers.

You judge schools by your impression of their name? This is one of the least informed opinions I've heard on here, and there have been quite a few.

[tomtownsenduhb]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.