Trying to compare Boston Colleges for DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who don't have students at NEU, if you don't get it, you don't get it. You can cheer for the hockey team while on campus support them on coop, and cheer for them when back on campus.

People claim what they don't know here.
In fact, majority of coops are in the Boston area as you can imagine.
If the coop is within certain radius(ton of them are), students get to stay on campus.
My kid's roommate was on coop last semester. She just went to work instead of classes in the morning, and still did all sort of same school related activities.

[Anonymous]

BU and NEU don't try to field competitive sports plus they have a lot of international students, so your traditional school spirit of attending sports games is lacking there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BU and NEU don't try to field competitive sports plus they have a lot of international students, so your traditional school spirit of attending sports games is lacking there.

true except for hockey (admittedly nothing like big D1 football )

[Anonymous]

NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

[Anonymous]

I think BC is perfectly fine if you are ok with a catholic school (do they still have crucifixes in every classroom? That is enough to create discomfort for some kids).

A Catholic school… is Catholic? Shock, horror! Who could have predicted that? Toughen up, cupcake. Or go somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

You can cheer for the Bruins and Red Sox

[Anonymous]

A few points.

BC is the only school that plays "big time" sports. The others have niche followings and success in sports like crew, equestrian. They all like hockey, except for Tufts.

Sports is a big thing for school spirit. BC is pretty much the only school that is going to offer that type of school spirit.

As for BU and NEU, since they are in the thick of a large city, its harder to find that "school spirit", but it exists if you want to find it.

Sure, there are a lot of internationals at BU and NEU, but that doesn't stop school spirit. As for NEU being a commuter school, that's kind of funny. I read they are constantly in a battle (as are all the Boston schools) to try to increase the number of dorms because that is the biggest problem that the schools face. There aren't very many commuters to either BU, NEU, BC or Tufts.

As far as BC and being Catholic, sure its identity is rooted in being a Jesuit insititution, and they get a lot of Catholic prep school students. Something like 70% of the students are Catholic. But if you aren't Catholic, or a non-practicing Catholic, there is no difference in one's experience attending the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC doesn't work if you're not Catholic (we're not);
Tufts doesn't work if hour kid wants to be in the city (it's in the burbs on a hill - FWIW, my kid thought Tufts would be #1, but after visiting, didn't like the vibe);
BU doesn't have much of a campus (full city college);
NEU has the best of all - city campus (inbetween 2 T-stops), excellent Econ (my kid is an Econ major at NEU), but I'm not going to lie, this is our third kid, and their admin is a hot mess. Billing is a disaster, always late and always wrong, and housing is a joke (your kid doesn't find out whete they'll live until mid-July if you're lucky, but possibly as late as mid-August). Makes planning difficult

Curious why you think BC doesn't work if someone is not catholic, don't they admit other denominations or non-religious kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC doesn't work if you're not Catholic (we're not);
Tufts doesn't work if hour kid wants to be in the city (it's in the burbs on a hill - FWIW, my kid thought Tufts would be #1, but after visiting, didn't like the vibe);
BU doesn't have much of a campus (full city college);
NEU has the best of all - city campus (inbetween 2 T-stops), excellent Econ (my kid is an Econ major at NEU), but I'm not going to lie, this is our third kid, and their admin is a hot mess. Billing is a disaster, always late and always wrong, and housing is a joke (your kid doesn't find out whete they'll live until mid-July if you're lucky, but possibly as late as mid-August). Makes planning difficult

Curious why you think BC doesn't work if someone is not catholic, don't they admit other denominations or non-religious kids?

NP. Yes, a third of the students are not Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC doesn't work if you're not Catholic (we're not);
Tufts doesn't work if hour kid wants to be in the city (it's in the burbs on a hill - FWIW, my kid thought Tufts would be #1, but after visiting, didn't like the vibe);
BU doesn't have much of a campus (full city college);
NEU has the best of all - city campus (inbetween 2 T-stops), excellent Econ (my kid is an Econ major at NEU), but I'm not going to lie, this is our third kid, and their admin is a hot mess. Billing is a disaster, always late and always wrong, and housing is a joke (your kid doesn't find out whete they'll live until mid-July if you're lucky, but possibly as late as mid-August). Makes planning difficult

Curious why you think BC doesn't work if someone is not catholic, don't they admit other denominations or non-religious kids?

NP. Yes, a third of the students are not Catholic.

2/3 of the students check the "catholic" box. It's not like the school verifies if it's true or to what extent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

[Anonymous]

My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

I know that some think the Tufts campus is a bit more tired than others, but they are investing a lot in their physical campus. If you search for Tufts capital projects there a whole bunch that are being planned/constructed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

More than 50% of the student body don't receive need based aid. Not sure what you are trying to say. The school costs almost $90k a year, average merit is around $20k, but maybe your definition of affluent is different than someone who can shell out almost $300,000 for their kid's education.