Will Villanova become more competitive than ND or Georgetown?

[Anonymous]

It is clearly Notre Dame, Georgetown, BC and then Nova. Then there is a gap. After the gap it is probably Holy Cross.

The only thing that is debatable is whether Georgetown or Notre Dame should be 1.

[Anonymous]

Villanova is a weird campus near a highway ramp. BC is also weirdly located next to a residential community. Neither are that desirable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is clearly Notre Dame, Georgetown, BC and then Nova. Then there is a gap. After the gap it is probably Holy Cross.

The only thing that is debatable is whether Georgetown or Notre Dame should be 1.

this is a very east coast biased view. If you were midwest or east coast, there are other schools like Santa Clara, USD, Gongaza, LMU that would be all above Villanova and possibly BC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the matriculation numbers for perhaps best Jesuit high school in country Regis in NYC Holy Cross outperforms all the others and HC enrollment at 3200 kids is a fraction of Villanova and Boston College same applies for Loyola and Fenwick in Chicago. Alumni success in high profile positions matters Holy Cross, Gtown and ND have it. Take a tour of the top
Catholic schools and look at the ivy growing on older buildings, ND, Holy Cross, and Georgetown have it. The campuses at Villanova, BC, Fairfield and Providence are newer buildings reflecting their transitions to residential colleges,

Way to twist those facts. Based on your questionable logic, Georgetown is #1 Catholic, then BC, and Fordham (tied), then Notre Dame, then Holy Cross.

So if that is the basis of your analysis, which is super weak to begin with, then you are completely wrong. But I'm sure you will now move the goalposts.

https://www.regis.org/downloads/2024%20Regis%20School%20Final%20Profile-v1-1.pdf

Bad argument. The Regis students who go to Jesuit schools benefit from a HUGE hook. My interpretation would be that the ones who go to Holy Cross were not admitted (even though they had a huge hook) to Georgetown or BC.

[Anonymous]

Villanova just bought TWO adjacent campuses -- Cabrini College and Rosemont. Alumni are excited and opening their wallets. It's definitely a school on the rise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is clearly Notre Dame, Georgetown, BC and then Nova. Then there is a gap. After the gap it is probably Holy Cross.

The only thing that is debatable is whether Georgetown or Notre Dame should be 1.

this is a very east coast biased view. If you were midwest or east coast, there are other schools like Santa Clara, USD, Gongaza, LMU that would be all above Villanova and possibly BC

Correct. Going to Santa Clara is similar to going to BC reputation and job outcome wise but different region.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Villanova is a weird campus near a highway ramp. BC is also weirdly located next to a residential community. Neither are that desirable.

Cleveland Circle, where students live off campus junior year at BC, can be really dangerous. Human and drug trafficking right in front of the bars. Can’t speak to Villanova.

[Anonymous]

BC is better than Villanova - better undergrad, business school, law school etc. but it isn’t that much better and I would expect a good deal of overlap. BC undergrad is about 40 and law about 25. Villanova undergrad is about 60 and its law school about 40. See how BU has climbed strategically in the rankings over the past two decades? Villanova can do that too and may be better than BC, but currently it is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC is better than Villanova - better undergrad, business school, law school etc. but it isn’t that much better and I would expect a good deal of overlap. BC undergrad is about 40 and law about 25. Villanova undergrad is about 60 and its law school about 40. See how BU has climbed strategically in the rankings over the past two decades? Villanova can do that too and may be better than BC, but currently it is not.

Give it five years until there’s a negligible difference. Philly itself is on the rise. You have UPenn Temple Drexel Bryan Mawr and Nova there. So much potential

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the matriculation numbers for perhaps best Jesuit high school in country Regis in NYC Holy Cross outperforms all the others and HC enrollment at 3200 kids is a fraction of Villanova and Boston College same applies for Loyola and Fenwick in Chicago. Alumni success in high profile positions matters Holy Cross, Gtown and ND have it. Take a tour of the top
Catholic schools and look at the ivy growing on older buildings, ND, Holy Cross, and Georgetown have it. The campuses at Villanova, BC, Fairfield and Providence are newer buildings reflecting their transitions to residential colleges,

Way to twist those facts. Based on your questionable logic, Georgetown is #1 Catholic, then BC, and Fordham (tied), then Notre Dame, then Holy Cross.

So if that is the basis of your analysis, which is super weak to begin with, then you are completely wrong. But I'm sure you will now move the goalposts.

https://www.regis.org/downloads/2024%20Regis%20School%20Final%20Profile-v1-1.pdf

Bad argument. The Regis students who go to Jesuit schools benefit from a HUGE hook. My interpretation would be that the ones who go to Holy Cross were not admitted (even though they had a huge hook) to Georgetown or BC.

This is a bad take. I have a son who went to Regis. BC and Georgetown have pretty thin FA and there are plenty of upper middle class families at Regis with more than 2 kids who feel squeezed by those two schools in particular. I heard it frequently. Holy Cross has better merit, more full rides available, at least one Regis kid per year takes that over BC/Georgetown. We also have NMF kids who will take Fordham's scholarship offer over BC and Georgetown acceptances. There's a Santa Clara full ride recipient this year taking it over ND and Georgetown. ND seems to have plenty of 20-25k scholarships and kids will take those over BC and Georgetown too, even if they had some preference for GU. Regis kids get the money part and what that means to their families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for admissions readers at Villanova as you know there are going to be tons of kids who try unsuccessfully to mention the Pope in their essays. It will become very cliché.

They will see through it. My daughter will get in. She’s an excellent student who has always taken her faith seriously and isn’t jumping on the Pope bandwagon. They will see that in her essays and her ECs. She will choose ND over Villanova if she has that as an option though.

It is now ND>Nova>Gtown>HC>BC for Catholic applicants.

This.

I would move Georgetown down one step and Holy Cross up though. Georgetown's hard turn away from Catholicism the past decade or so moves them farther away from being a desired Catholic University.

Real Catholics don't care for Georgetown.

All 4 who are left.

[Anonymous]

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Real Catholics don't care for Georgetown.

Rich Catholics don't piss their time away in these pathetic threads. Threads like this are full of creepy insecure strivers - I'd bet first and second gen immigrants especially - who do not even have affiliations to these colleges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is a weird campus near a highway ramp. BC is also weirdly located next to a residential community. Neither are that desirable.

Cleveland Circle, where students live off campus junior year at BC, can be really dangerous. Human and drug trafficking right in front of the bars. Can’t speak to Villanova.

You can’t speak to BC either. Even tho you make up crap about BC on every single thread. Your posts are deleted when reported. Sorry s/he/they hurt you. But you should go away like you promised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BC is better than Villanova - better undergrad, business school, law school etc. but it isn’t that much better and I would expect a good deal of overlap. BC undergrad is about 40 and law about 25. Villanova undergrad is about 60 and its law school about 40. See how BU has climbed strategically in the rankings over the past two decades? Villanova can do that too and may be better than BC, but currently it is not.

Give it five years until there’s a negligible difference. Philly itself is on the rise. You have UPenn Temple Drexel Bryan Mawr and Nova there. So much potential

So are all these colleges new to the scene or what? When are they making their move? Have the pope as an alum - that’s a good one.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Villanova is a weird campus near a highway ramp. BC is also weirdly located next to a residential community. Neither are that desirable.

Cleveland Circle, where students live off campus junior year at BC, can be really dangerous. Human and drug trafficking right in front of the bars. Can’t speak to Villanova.

You can’t speak to BC either. Even tho you make up crap about BC on every single thread. Your posts are deleted when reported. Sorry s/he/they hurt you. But you should go away like you promised.

What posts have been deleted? Can you describe such a post? Thanks in advance