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Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Using the name of a character from Metropolitan… quite clever. It’s now clear you’ve been doing a bit.
I truly think it’s sad that they have nothing better to do on a Friday night than troll. Like really, I’m not trying to be snarky. I thought it was bad enough that I was on here - trying to escape my family and do a little college research.
Don't feel bad for me.
Anonymous wrote:These were the schools +5 and -5 in the rankings around BC before recent DEI.
University of Rochester
University of California-Irvine
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Florida
Brandeis University
Boston College
University of California-Davis
College of William and Mary
University of California-San Diego
Case Western Reserve University
Boston University
This is so damning. BC can barely beat the University of Florida or Irvine. California students rejected by Berkeley, UCLA, and San Diego dread going to Irvine.
Anonymous wrote:Using the name of a character from Metropolitan… quite clever. It’s now clear you’ve been doing a bit.
Would any character from Metropolitan, or their progeny, attend BC?
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:Early candidate for most off the rails thread of the year
Comparing BC to NYU, Emory, USC, and ND is off the rails. Going EDI to BC and saying the applicant is a good student is off the rails.
This assessment/judgement of ED is accurate, whether to BC, or Penn or Duke or…at their respective levels.
Top 5% students at good high schools are not off the rails if they ED to Penn or Duke. A below median student at a good high school with low social aspirations should consider BC for ED.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:Early candidate for most off the rails thread of the year
Comparing BC to NYU, Emory, USC, and ND is off the rails. Going EDI to BC and saying the applicant is a good student is off the rails.
And you know about off the rails. You seem to be off your meds.
Everyone who says BC is not as academically strong as USC and that Wake students come from better families requires psychoactive medication, according to your post.
Anonymous wrote:Early candidate for most off the rails thread of the year
Comparing BC to NYU, Emory, USC, and ND is off the rails. Going EDI to BC and saying the applicant is a good student is off the rails.
Anonymous wrote:Whoever the booster is…. BC is fine. It is not elite. Cope.
Not at all elite. Academically or socially.
Anonymous wrote:NYU was also a glorified commuter school not that long ago. Times change, Thurston Howell III. Seems like you haven’t kept up.
NYU has had a massive influx of capital from international students and NYC private day school alums who could not get into better schools. This began before 2008 and the GFC. BC's recent rise, as small as it is, is much more recent. It also has to compete with Northeastern and Tufts, whereas NYU has no peer school besides Columbia, which is in a different tier.
Anonymous wrote:BC is a lot like Wake Tulane and UMiami. And none of them are peers to ND Georgetown Emory UVA. Let’s be honest the first group is used as a safety by the latter.
It is similar academically to Wake, Tulane, and the U. But it lacks Greek life and its off-campus housing options are much worse than the other three. Brighton is really rough compared to Coral Gables.
Anonymous wrote:Tom has posted 17 times on this thread. I have been on DCUM over a decade and never seen anything remotely close to this. Do you think we should call someone so he can get help? Do you think he could be having a manic episode?
The responses here are pretty entertaining. Although I believe everything I have said, posters here should learn not to feed the trolls.
It is also funny DCUM has a reputation for being cutthroat and elitist, but people put on their capes for.... BC.
Anonymous wrote:I understand comparing BC to NYU, 10 years ago they were peers. NYU has come up as bit. But Emory?! I was just looking at NSF research funding BC gets less funding than Howard.
Why are you surprised? The idea that BC as an institution or its alumni could tap into the thriving biotech industry found in Cambridge and northwest of the city is risible. It was a glorified commuter school not too long ago.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous 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.
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.
Apparently there is still one active on DCUM 🙄. Other than that, you’re spot on.
I did not say I am part of it. Saying it died out or does not exist in substantial form is ignorant, especially if you spent any time playing golf or racquet sports in MA.
Careful not to break a hip, Gram.
You do realize that denying the existence of a whole subculture of rich people who belong to exclusive institutions is trashy, right? That is shows you are unaware of what is out there in the broader world? If you went to a Founders League or ISL school you would not make the same error.
“Trashy” 😂😂😂😂😂.
Seriously, be careful of those hips.
I am not elderly.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Your insults are meaningless, and you’re still wrong.
Please, be specific about where I am wrong. A top 5% student who goes to BC is almost certainly at a bad high school. The top 5% at a good HS (St. Alban's, Harvard-Westlake, Francis Parker etc.) is not going to BC, let alone applying EDI.
Chestnut Hill is full of strip malls and the blight that is Brighton. It is a long T ride from civilization. Georgetown has M Street and Wisconsin Ave. There is no comparison.
Not my job to educate you. You are welcome to your opinions about where top 5% at good schools choose to go. You are welcome to your opinion about what are “good schools”. You are also welcome to keep making wrong assumptions. Just don’t get your feeling hurt when people call out when you’re wrong.
Please, educate me. It is better than watching you flap around like a flaccid windsock. My feelings are not hurt, I do not put stock in those who went to or have immediate family who attend BC.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous 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.
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.
Apparently there is still one active on DCUM 🙄. Other than that, you’re spot on.
I did not say I am part of it. Saying it died out or does not exist in substantial form is ignorant, especially if you spent any time playing golf or racquet sports in MA.
Careful not to break a hip, Gram.
You do realize that denying the existence of a whole subculture of rich people who belong to exclusive institutions is trashy, right? That is shows you are unaware of what is out there in the broader world? If you went to a Founders League or ISL school you would not make the same error.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
It is not that big of an exaggeration. BC is full of greaseballs.
Resulting to slurs, eh? What’s the issue, jealous you can’t afford it? Or denied admission?
I just had a minute of depression thinking there were people who assume others are jealous about BC when it is criticized as not as good as NYU or Emory or USC. I am over it though.