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Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ignoring the BC food fight from a few posters, back to OPs question.
BC's peers from an admissions selectivity perspective are the private colleges ranked 30ish to 50ish or so with acceptance rates less than 25%. Thinking NYU, BU, Tufts, Wake Forest, Northeastern, etc.
Basically, selective privates outside the T25.
Yes, not many selections in the first place, and it's obvious.
For NYU, it's a school with wider spectrums.
Stern is definitely T25 level. CAS with 7% acceptance rate, you can argue it's a bit cut above BC.
However colleges like Steinhardt or Professional Studies are actually a bit cut below BC overall.
In terms of scores, yes Steinhardt may not be as strong. There is no question NYU blows BC out of the water for students interested in the arts.
Poverty stricken NYU mom trying to make NYU sound redeemable instead of the result of college admissions failure
It’s somewhat amusing and tenable when you are advocating for Harvard over NYU. When you have this schtick and argue for BC over NYU, you sound like a 14 year old who says “poor” and “peasants” because he once met a student from Landon and wanted to emulate him.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ignoring the BC food fight from a few posters, back to OPs question.
BC's peers from an admissions selectivity perspective are the private colleges ranked 30ish to 50ish or so with acceptance rates less than 25%. Thinking NYU, BU, Tufts, Wake Forest, Northeastern, etc.
Basically, selective privates outside the T25.
Yes, not many selections in the first place, and it's obvious.
For NYU, it's a school with wider spectrums.
Stern is definitely T25 level. CAS with 7% acceptance rate, you can argue it's a bit cut above BC.
However colleges like Steinhardt or Professional Studies are actually a bit cut below BC overall.
In terms of scores, yes Steinhardt may not be as strong. There is no question NYU blows BC out of the water for students interested in the arts.
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.
Holy cross is an outlier in that group.
Wash your mouth out with soap after saying BC is in the same tier as Emory ND and Georgetown. Students at those three schools made responsible decisions in high school.
Anonymous wrote:OP stop trying to distract from the fact that you tried to say that BC was #3 in Boston and made references to Harvard and MIT in relation to BC. Doug Flutie is literally the most famous BC alum of all time. Put down the pipe. There are HBCUs that are more elite than BC.
Hysterical, fact check TRUE
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb 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
I would add Tulane
No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list
It was 63 this year, but whatever.
Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.
You’re really going to denigrate any schools in the top 2-3% in the US? You’re definitely a troll.
I will denigrate any claim that BC is elite, academically (comparisons to NYU, Georgetown, USC etc.) or socially (comparisons to Wake Forest). Some people are meant to be nurses and hack attorneys who wear polos to the office on Monday, BC is a good fit for them.
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.
Parochial, no question.
I think you are right, he crushed it at a school with open admissions and non-existent STEM curriculum. He should be in a Dunning-Kruger effect case study.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote: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.
Tom Tom,
BC is a better school, clearly, than any of the above schools — even 20 years ago. It was underrated by US News then, and it is underrated now. BC is now the clear #3 in that area, behind only MIT and Harvard. Then Tufts, then Northeastern, then BU.
You are drunk. Put the crack pipe down. I have a degree from one of the two schools mentioned (Harvard/MIT). I am in an academic at a top 20 professional school. I have literally never met a BC grad in any of my circles. Ever.
“I am in an academic”….
Who’s the drunk one?
A reasonable person would trust a drug-addled MIT grad over a phi beta kappa BC alum for any cognitively demanding task.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote: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.
Tom Tom,
BC is a better school, clearly, than any of the above schools — even 20 years ago. It was underrated by US News then, and it is underrated now. BC is now the clear #3 in that area, behind only MIT and Harvard. Then Tufts, then Northeastern, then BU.
You are drunk. Put the crack pipe down. I have a degree from one of the two schools mentioned (Harvard/MIT). I am in an academic at a top 20 professional school. I have literally never met a BC grad in any of my circles. Ever.
BC grads are almost unheard of in top 20 medical schools. Their T13 admittance rates are low low low low low low low low (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2waT9TxPU0)
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
I would add Tulane
No Tulane moved down to 73 on the ranking list
It was 63 this year, but whatever.
Wow, I had to check the new rankings. BC cannot even top the super prestigious U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is barely above OSU. It must be super competitive to get in with the most amazing career outcomes and alumni body.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:The only kids I know who ended up at BC are extremely smart. One was basically top of his class at prestigious school.
What "prestigious school" has a student near the top of his or her class attend BC? Please name the school or its peers.
What a stupid request.
No top student at Exeter or Hotchkiss is going to BC. Same with Sidwell and Ransom Everglades. So the poster is a liar.
So the multiples from Exeter, Sidwell and RE who go to BC each year are mouth breathers. Got it. 🙄 #moron
They are not "basically top of his class at prestigious school." I know multiples from those schools go to BC each year, every school has a bottom half.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:The only kids I know who ended up at BC are extremely smart. One was basically top of his class at prestigious school.
What "prestigious school" has a student near the top of his or her class attend BC? Please name the school or its peers.
What a stupid request.
No top student at Exeter or Hotchkiss is going to BC. Same with Sidwell and Ransom Everglades. So the poster is a liar.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote:Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote: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.
Too late. Lots of pity for you.
You are researching how to get into BC and whether it is a good fit. Although objectively depressing and a sign of stupidity, I do not pity you.
The pity is a one-way street only. #sadtomtom
It does not bother me. BC is neither academically nor socially elite. It is appropriately ranked with UF and Brandeis.
Anonymous wrote:The only kids I know who ended up at BC are extremely smart. One was basically top of his class at prestigious school.
What "prestigious school" has a student near the top of his or her class attend BC? Please name the school or its peers.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote: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.
Too late. Lots of pity for you.
You are researching how to get into BC and whether it is a good fit. Although objectively depressing and a sign of stupidity, I do not pity you.
Anonymous wrote:tomtownsenduhb wrote: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.
Tom Tom,
BC is a better school, clearly, than any of the above schools — even 20 years ago. It was underrated by US News then, and it is underrated now. BC is now the clear #3 in that area, behind only MIT and Harvard. Then Tufts, then Northeastern, then BU.
What do you mean underrated then? Boston College will go up in the rankings based on DEI and having poor Massachusetts youth attending from Dracut. If anything, it is overrated now. Tufts was and is the better school academically, that is the consensus among New Englanders.