What colleges are in Boston College's tier group?

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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.

This is so silly. The BC network is incredibly strong in financial fields. The old WASP elite who might have looked down upon a Jesuit school has died out.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Lots of big money families from Boston and NYC send their kids to BC. I know many of them. Your post is dating you. I think you may be much older???? BC definitely has a better reputation in NYC and Boston than Wake.

[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.

Wake Forest? 😂

Nope.

[tomtownsenduhb]

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tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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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.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

[tomtownsenduhb]

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tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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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.

This is so silly. The BC network is incredibly strong in financial fields. The old WASP elite who might have looked down upon a Jesuit school has died out.

Incorrect, that "elite" is at TCC and Myopia in spades and take on advisory roles in family offices. Guess your invite to Thursday morning golf got lost in the mail.

[tomtownsenduhb]

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tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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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.

Wake Forest? 😂

Nope.

Second home-owners in the Hamptons, ACK, and Kennebunk (not renters, and they actually belong to private tennis clubs there) are more likely to send their children to Wake than BC. Not having fraternities is very low class (unless you are Princeton, of course).

[Anonymous]

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

What's wrong with Risk management? Pays well good WLB

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Lots of big money families from Boston and NYC send their kids to BC. I know many of them. Your post is dating you. I think you may be much older???? BC definitely has a better reputation in NYC and Boston than Wake.

I did not say "big money families." I meant ones with social connections and pedigree. Some Catholic self-made car dealer in Hull or a QSR owner with a two-bedroom apartment in Battery Park is not what is being referenced.

[tomtownsenduhb]

Anonymous wrote:

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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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.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

What's wrong with Risk management? Pays well good WLB

It is not FO. If you go to a school like Stern or better you are not optimizing for WLB. If you go to Wake you are from a better background than the types who enter middle and back office roles.

[Anonymous]

tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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tomtownsenduhb wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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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.

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.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

NP (Tom, since you are clearly new to DCUM, it means new poster). I’m not a booster of BC and have no real ties to the school (though the two people I know that went there are a dentist and my cousin, an investment banker) you seem weirdly invested in this thread. I don’t even know what to do with all the excellent research you’ve done on Linked In, plus your grammar lesson. If we say you won this thread, will you take a break and relax a little bit? Maybe have a glass of wine on a nice snowy night?

[tomtownsenduhb]

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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.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

NP (Tom, since you are clearly new to DCUM, it means new poster). I’m not a booster of BC and have no real ties to the school (though the two people I know that went there are a dentist and my cousin, an investment banker) you seem weirdly invested in this thread. I don’t even know what to do with all the excellent research you’ve done on Linked In, plus your grammar lesson. If we say you won this thread, will you take a break and relax a little bit? Maybe have a glass of wine on a nice snowy night?

I spent five minutes reading and commenting on a thread giving horrible advice and conclusions, yet I am "weirdly invested" despite the threads with thousands of posts. I guess taking a short break from work on a Friday evening is "weird."

You can say "BC is significantly worse than the other schools mentioned in this thread, socially and in terms of career outcomes" based on the "excellent research."

I am relaxed. It is not snowing here.

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Anonymous wrote:If BC were ever close to G’Town and BD, it wouldn’t have changed from EA to ED. It just simply couldn’t hold on to EA anymore. For private schools, EA is the true measure for prestige, including ivies…

This. Most kids with the scores and stats still apply to ND and Georgetown. And then move to BC EDII if deferred or they roll the dice RD. It depends on the strength of the student. Some kids on the margins don’t bother with ND and Georgetown when it’s too much of a reach and just ED I to BC - the kids who are Top 10-15% not Top 5%.

Whatever. My kid who is top 5% went ED1 to BC over ND and Georgetown in large part because of location.

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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.

Go on LinkedIn, look up how many BC alums are in FO roles at BB banks from the classes of 2014-2024, then divide by the total number of graduates during that time period. By the way, risk management is not FO. Now do this with NYU. To make it easier, you can do this exercise with Carroll and Stern alone.

"Law Firms" is not capitalized. You meant "at" instead of "is" before large. They do not teach proper grammar at BC....

Of course, if every alum you know from any school (including HYPS) is in high finance then you only know no more than half a dozen. Also, in 2025, big law partnership is not exactly a flex like it was 30 years ago.

What's wrong with Risk management? Pays well good WLB

It is not FO. If you go to a school like Stern or better you are not optimizing for WLB. If you go to Wake you are from a better background than the types who enter middle and back office roles.

RM at a Bulge bracket is the same as IB at an MM.

[tomtownsenduhb]

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Anonymous wrote:If BC were ever close to G’Town and BD, it wouldn’t have changed from EA to ED. It just simply couldn’t hold on to EA anymore. For private schools, EA is the true measure for prestige, including ivies…

This. Most kids with the scores and stats still apply to ND and Georgetown. And then move to BC EDII if deferred or they roll the dice RD. It depends on the strength of the student. Some kids on the margins don’t bother with ND and Georgetown when it’s too much of a reach and just ED I to BC - the kids who are Top 10-15% not Top 5%.

Whatever. My kid who is top 5% went ED1 to BC over ND and Georgetown in large part because of location.

Anyone who thinks Chestnut Hill (and not the good part) is a better location than Georgetown is a philistine. I hope he enjoyed his time at a mediocre public or parochial high school.

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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.

This comment is comedy gold.