notre dame vs BC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dorm life/culture is huge at Notre Dame. They almost function like frats/sororities. people often become very attached to their hall and identify with it, and there are a lot of dorm-based events such as formals, interhall sports, etc. Students of all grade levels live in each dorm, as opposed to most schools where you have the freshman dorms, sophomore dorms, upper class housing, etc.

Also, I would say campus-based life is a bigger deal at ND than it is a lot of other places. Of course, a lot of this is a function of location - ND is really the focal point of South Bend whereas if you’re in, say, Boston, there are obviously tons of things to do that would draw students off campus. Not saying BC has bad campus life, but ND’s dorm culture and campus-oriented social life is just different.

While this may be true of ND - it shows you know little about BC campus life. It thrives. BC dorm life is also very strong but in a different way. Dorms tend to be mostly of the same graduating class, so you spend a huge amount of time with the roughly 2500 kids in your graduating class over four years. By junior/senior year - you pretty much will recognize the name of anyone in your class....and if you don't know them personally, you know who their group of friends are and you are likely good friends with at least one of that group. It's a very social campus and welcoming of all. Campus life is great....even junior year when "campus moves off-campus" when most people choose to take their off-campus year if they only have 3 years of housing. Tons of parties off campus (where all ages attend). Then they all return to campus senior year for the best housing and when most everyone is legal to drink on campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really? A dorm community you stay in for 4 years w kids from all years? So you can receive guidance as a freshman and then provide guidance as an upperclassman about things like classes, dating, socializing? Like the PP described? News to me.

Many schools have strong freshman year housing communities and people choose to stay with those people for 4 years. Even then, what you're describing is at many top schools, though 3 years not far see....Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Rice, literally any residential college system ever. Can also be suffocating if you, you know, don't like those people.

To be fair, rice and Yale were already called out as having the same system. It’s a good one but it’s at a handful of schools. Not common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dorm life/culture is huge at Notre Dame. They almost function like frats/sororities. people often become very attached to their hall and identify with it, and there are a lot of dorm-based events such as formals, interhall sports, etc. Students of all grade levels live in each dorm, as opposed to most schools where you have the freshman dorms, sophomore dorms, upper class housing, etc.

Also, I would say campus-based life is a bigger deal at ND than it is a lot of other places. Of course, a lot of this is a function of location - ND is really the focal point of South Bend whereas if you’re in, say, Boston, there are obviously tons of things to do that would draw students off campus. Not saying BC has bad campus life, but ND’s dorm culture and campus-oriented social life is just different.

While this may be true of ND - it shows you know little about BC campus life. It thrives. BC dorm life is also very strong but in a different way. Dorms tend to be mostly of the same graduating class, so you spend a huge amount of time with the roughly 2500 kids in your graduating class over four years. By junior/senior year - you pretty much will recognize the name of anyone in your class....and if you don't know them personally, you know who their group of friends are and you are likely good friends with at least one of that group. It's a very social campus and welcoming of all. Campus life is great....even junior year when "campus moves off-campus" when most people choose to take their off-campus year if they only have 3 years of housing. Tons of parties off campus (where all ages attend). Then they all return to campus senior year for the best housing and when most everyone is legal to drink on campus.

I went to BC in the ancient times and very much did not know my 2500 classmates by name. LOL