BC vs WashU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is several tiers higher and will open more doors between alumni, professors, and classmates. Dropping WUSTL at an elegant dinner party will elicit approval and nods, whereas other guests will ask "What is a BC? Is that a disease?"

Aww, there you are. The prolific BC basher is a little slow on responding but expect lots of umbrage about TIERS and "jokes" at how deranged anyone would be to choose BC and that anyone who goes there must not want a career or "what is Chestnut Hill"? He's nothing if not incessant and predictable.

You should choose BC over Assumption. You shouldn’t choose BC over WUSTL business school.

Man up and shut up, just as you keep promising. Liar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is several tiers higher and will open more doors between alumni, professors, and classmates. Dropping WUSTL at an elegant dinner party will elicit approval and nods, whereas other guests will ask "What is a BC? Is that a disease?"

Totally disagree. I know that WashU is ranked higher but I don't know anyone who is actually impressed by it. Middle America has no idea what it is ("is it in Washington?") and those at your elite dinner party 1000% view it as a place that kids attend who don't get into Ivies ED1. BC has a tight alumni network, a Catholic identity, a location near a desirable city, etc.

I have zero connections to either for what it's worth but I live in upper NW DC, have kids in private, grew up in Manhattan.

If you plan on having a good career then you shouldn’t care whether your plumber or gas pumper knows about WUSTL. His knowledge of BC will be from basketball.

BC students overwhelmingly couldn’t get into any Ivy, whereas WUSTL is on par with Cornell.

I'm not talking about the plumber or gas pumper but many professional class people have no knowledge about WashU. I know you're shocked that anyone could be so ill informed but not everyone is DCUM crazy about colleges.

It’s not the worst thing in the world, but WU grads will spend a significant amount of time in their lives explaining to people just what & where WU is.

Not at a decent financial institution employer or country club. It’s a handy tool to filter people out, if they don’t know WUSTL you probably don’t want to know them because they’re unworldly and uneducated.

This is just ridiculous. I grew up in Manhattan to Ivy-educated parents (Columbia) and I never heard of WashU until my husband was applying to medical residencies and interviewed there. Now it's on my radar for only the second time in 30 years as my own kid is applying to college. I talked to my parents and extended family about it over the winter holidays and no one knew ANYTHING about it and couldn't place it as a top10 school or a top50 school. We hardly fell off the turnip truck yesterday--we are highly paid professionals and although I don't live in the "country club" world, several of my extended family members do.

Most of America does not live life with the Princeton Review guide in their chest pocket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is several tiers higher and will open more doors between alumni, professors, and classmates. Dropping WUSTL at an elegant dinner party will elicit approval and nods, whereas other guests will ask "What is a BC? Is that a disease?"

Totally disagree. I know that WashU is ranked higher but I don't know anyone who is actually impressed by it. Middle America has no idea what it is ("is it in Washington?") and those at your elite dinner party 1000% view it as a place that kids attend who don't get into Ivies ED1. BC has a tight alumni network, a Catholic identity, a location near a desirable city, etc.

I have zero connections to either for what it's worth but I live in upper NW DC, have kids in private, grew up in Manhattan.

If you plan on having a good career then you shouldn’t care whether your plumber or gas pumper knows about WUSTL. His knowledge of BC will be from basketball.

BC students overwhelmingly couldn’t get into any Ivy, whereas WUSTL is on par with Cornell.

Apparently they don’t study irony at WU.

They are comparable in terms of difficulty to obtain admission. WUSTL’s business school is more difficult than several of Cornell’s colleges. BC admission is not comparable to Cornell. What part of what I just said is incorrect?

Oh, and he tries to provoke pps with stawman arguments. And when no one takes the bait, he makes up more sh$t-posting.

That’s not a straw man argument. Someone said WUSTL isn’t comparable to getting into Cornell.

I said to myself

Report it and get an answer in your inbox. Multiple posters.

Just the one tough guy.

Report it to Jeff and see if it is one poster. You are mistaken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is several tiers higher and will open more doors between alumni, professors, and classmates. Dropping WUSTL at an elegant dinner party will elicit approval and nods, whereas other guests will ask "What is a BC? Is that a disease?"

Totally disagree. I know that WashU is ranked higher but I don't know anyone who is actually impressed by it. Middle America has no idea what it is ("is it in Washington?") and those at your elite dinner party 1000% view it as a place that kids attend who don't get into Ivies ED1. BC has a tight alumni network, a Catholic identity, a location near a desirable city, etc.

I have zero connections to either for what it's worth but I live in upper NW DC, have kids in private, grew up in Manhattan.

If you plan on having a good career then you shouldn’t care whether your plumber or gas pumper knows about WUSTL. His knowledge of BC will be from basketball.

BC students overwhelmingly couldn’t get into any Ivy, whereas WUSTL is on par with Cornell.

I'm not talking about the plumber or gas pumper but many professional class people have no knowledge about WashU. I know you're shocked that anyone could be so ill informed but not everyone is DCUM crazy about colleges.

It’s not the worst thing in the world, but WU grads will spend a significant amount of time in their lives explaining to people just what & where WU is.

Not at a decent financial institution employer or country club. It’s a handy tool to filter people out, if they don’t know WUSTL you probably don’t want to know them because they’re unworldly and uneducated.

This is just ridiculous. I grew up in Manhattan to Ivy-educated parents (Columbia) and I never heard of WashU until my husband was applying to medical residencies and interviewed there. Now it's on my radar for only the second time in 30 years as my own kid is applying to college. I talked to my parents and extended family about it over the winter holidays and no one knew ANYTHING about it and couldn't place it as a top10 school or a top50 school. We hardly fell off the turnip truck yesterday--we are highly paid professionals and although I don't live in the "country club" world, several of my extended family members do.

Most of America does not live life with the Princeton Review guide in their chest pocket.

So you heard of WUSTL when looking into medical school and when your child is researching selective colleges.

Also Columbia was a commuter school when your parents graduated. It is now reverting to its old reputation.

Oh, ok, let's talk about Columbia now (his year another tactic for overtaking the thread)

It wasn’t prestigious or difficult to get into back then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is several tiers higher and will open more doors between alumni, professors, and classmates. Dropping WUSTL at an elegant dinner party will elicit approval and nods, whereas other guests will ask "What is a BC? Is that a disease?"

Aww, there you are. The prolific BC basher is a little slow on responding but expect lots of umbrage about TIERS and "jokes" at how deranged anyone would be to choose BC and that anyone who goes there must not want a career or "what is Chestnut Hill"? He's nothing if not incessant and predictable.

You should choose BC over Assumption. You shouldn’t choose BC over WUSTL business school.

Man up and shut up, just as you keep promising. Liar.

Who said I’m a man? This is DCUMoms…..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wash U is several tiers higher and will open more doors between alumni, professors, and classmates. Dropping WUSTL at an elegant dinner party will elicit approval and nods, whereas other guests will ask "What is a BC? Is that a disease?"

Totally disagree. I know that WashU is ranked higher but I don't know anyone who is actually impressed by it. Middle America has no idea what it is ("is it in Washington?") and those at your elite dinner party 1000% view it as a place that kids attend who don't get into Ivies ED1. BC has a tight alumni network, a Catholic identity, a location near a desirable city, etc.

I have zero connections to either for what it's worth but I live in upper NW DC, have kids in private, grew up in Manhattan.

If you plan on having a good career then you shouldn’t care whether your plumber or gas pumper knows about WUSTL. His knowledge of BC will be from basketball.

BC students overwhelmingly couldn’t get into any Ivy, whereas WUSTL is on par with Cornell.

Apparently they don’t study irony at WU.

Apparently you don’t know how to abbreviate the school correctly.

[Anonymous]

WashU is a top 20 school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WashU is a top 20 school.

Yes. Hence why this thread is ridiculous unless there was an overwhelming fixation on going to a Catholic school or going to a ton of sports games (in either case, a top 20 school is probably not in your wheelhouse if those are your priorities rather than academic rigor).

[Anonymous]

WashU is a better school, my guess is your kid will have similar outcomes opportunity-wise from either. Which school did they like better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WashU is a better school, my guess is your kid will have similar outcomes opportunity-wise from either. Which school did they like better?

OP here. Thanks! They seem to like BC but I am a bit concerned that they may be missing on a better opportunity in terms of quality of education and prospects for job placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WashU is a better school, my guess is your kid will have similar outcomes opportunity-wise from either. Which school did they like better?

OP here. Thanks! They seem to like BC but I am a bit concerned that they may be missing on a better opportunity in terms of quality of education and prospects for job placement.

You are correct. The difference is as wide as the Pacific.

[Anonymous]

BC has way more attractive people

It’s not even close

Boston is far superior to St. Louis

BC network is very strong

Extremely surprised with posters saying wash u is superior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WashU is a top 20 school.

Wash U doesn’t seem to place like a top 20 school in finance though

Grind/toughness in education doesn’t match the outcomes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC has way more attractive people

It’s not even close

Boston is far superior to St. Louis

BC network is very strong

Extremely surprised with posters saying wash u is superior.

Please define “attractive” in the context of 18 year olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WashU is a top 20 school.

Wash U doesn’t seem to place like a top 20 school in finance though

Grind/toughness in education doesn’t match the outcomes

It places better than BC.