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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When we visited Holy Cross it seemed very vanilla, like there was absolutely nothing distinctive or interesting about them. Their admissions presentation could have been interchanged with 1,000 other schools, and they made great pains to make it clear they weren’t really catholic. The whole thing was totally uninspiring.

Villanova felt like the only of these three schools really willing to acknowledge and lean into their catholic values in their educational approach.

We are not Catholic but kid wanted a values based education (in the sense that education is about preparing to serve your community). Holy Cross did not seem to offer that at all or at least far less than even many of the public schools we visited.[/quote]

The First Year Experience Montserrat seminars, according to Holy Cross, "Ensures that students are engaging with serious intellectual and moral questions early in their time at Holy Cross." They talk about personal growth a lot. Not that many publics do this to that extent and require studing theology and philosophy.[/quote]

Our guide characterized these an as easy A and said her group just did meditation. Descriptions of other classes felt equally not tied to serious intellectual or moral questions.

I wanted to love Holy Cross, and maybe it was just our tour guide, but from the admissions presentation to tour it felt totally cookie cutter with many, many other schools. Like they wanted to appeal to everyone and in the process lost anything unique to say about themselves.[/quote]

I wonder how much the guides think they are selling that place to kids who are hoping for the least amount of engagement, while turning off people who want a profound, meaningful experience and who think that philosophy and theology class are important and not just hoops to jump through.

And it shows that you can't just go by a well crafted web page.[/quote]

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