Anonymous
06/22/2025 12:00
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is not much harder to get into. It attracts a much whiter, private catholic school student body. Think Notre Dame.
BU is more diverse and for kids who want/like an urban campus. Think NYU.
+1000
They are just two very different schools and attract different types of kids.
Not sure if BC being harder to get into deserves a "+1000". Looks like BU regularly has a lower acceptance rate. For HS class of 24, it was a 11% v 15%.
https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
I think that was the point — it said BC isn’t much harder to get into.
BU is sometimes a safety for BC. I agree that they pull different students but some Mass kids want to stay in Boston.
Not sure how a school with an 11% acceptance rate no matter the stats is a safety for anyone.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 11:27
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is not much harder to get into. It attracts a much whiter, private catholic school student body. Think Notre Dame.
BU is more diverse and for kids who want/like an urban campus. Think NYU.
+1000
They are just two very different schools and attract different types of kids.
Not sure if BC being harder to get into deserves a "+1000". Looks like BU regularly has a lower acceptance rate. For HS class of 24, it was a 11% v 15%.
https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
I think that was the point — it said BC isn’t much harder to get into.
BU is sometimes a safety for BC. I agree that they pull different students but some Mass kids want to stay in Boston.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 11:15
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is small and traditionally Catholic (tho not overtly so any more)
BU is large
Both are places people go to when they don't get into Harvard but still want the Boston experience and to rub shoulders with the Harvard kids. I am not joking.
I don’t know where you got the idea that BC & BU kids are actively trying to rub shoulders (or any other body parts) with Harvard people
I went to BC. I never met anyone from Harvard and I had an internship in Cambridge. No one goes to BU that did not get into Harvard. Does not happen -- not an Ivy backup school. There are failed Ivy people at BC but less so Harvard focused than the other Ivys. I really doubt BU kids see Harvard kids. When I was at BC I did not run into BU kids. All in its own ecosystem.
Anonymous
06/22/2025 10:26
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Of course BU attracted Jewish kids. BC is Cstholic.
But how Catholic is it really? What does that look like in day-to-day student life?
(I'm asking about the CURRENT student experience, not what it was like (or its reputation) in 1985-2005.)
BC, like most Catholic schools, has been getting more Catholic lately. Not as much as ND, but I'm told it's a noticeable difference from the late 90s. I would not go there expecting even Georgetown level Catholic lite-ness.
My DC just graduated from BC and this is not true.
Anonymous
06/18/2025 17:49
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is not much harder to get into. It attracts a much whiter, private catholic school student body. Think Notre Dame.
BU is more diverse and for kids who want/like an urban campus. Think NYU.
+1000
They are just two very different schools and attract different types of kids.
Not sure if BC being harder to get into deserves a "+1000". Looks like BU regularly has a lower acceptance rate. For HS class of 24, it was a 11% v 15%.
https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
I think that was the point — it said BC isn’t much harder to get into.
Anonymous
06/18/2025 13:24
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is not much harder to get into. It attracts a much whiter, private catholic school student body. Think Notre Dame.
BU is more diverse and for kids who want/like an urban campus. Think NYU.
+1000
They are just two very different schools and attract different types of kids.
Not sure if BC being harder to get into deserves a "+1000". Looks like BU regularly has a lower acceptance rate. For HS class of 24, it was a 11% v 15%.
https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
+1
BC and BU are two solid T50 schools (with selective acceptance rates) that have different student populations.
Rankings notwithstanding, the PP's BC/ND and BU/NYU comparisons are accurate.
Anonymous
06/18/2025 07:38
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is not much harder to get into. It attracts a much whiter, private catholic school student body. Think Notre Dame.
BU is more diverse and for kids who want/like an urban campus. Think NYU.
+1000
They are just two very different schools and attract different types of kids.
Not sure if BC being harder to get into deserves a "+1000". Looks like BU regularly has a lower acceptance rate. For HS class of 24, it was a 11% v 15%.
https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
Anonymous
06/18/2025 06:52
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:BC is not much harder to get into. It attracts a much whiter, private catholic school student body. Think Notre Dame.
BU is more diverse and for kids who want/like an urban campus. Think NYU.
+1000
They are just two very different schools and attract different types of kids.
Anonymous
06/18/2025 02:12
Subject: BU and BC
What are “bps” kids?
Anonymous
06/18/2025 00:49
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I went to a private high school in New Jersey. The way I remember it was the Catholics applied to BC, the Jewish classmates applied to BU, and the WASPS applied to Tufts if they wanted to go to a Boston school.
This was in the 80s. I was Korean, so I did the stereotypical thing for Koreans, and applied to Harvard and MIT and didn't get in to either.
Haha. that's funny.
I thought Jewish classmates would go to Brandeis, not so much BU?
It’s not funny. It was true. BU was called “BJ@w” and that’s where the Jewish applied, Catholics to BC. This was late 80s/early 90s.
Anonymous
06/18/2025 00:12
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is small and traditionally Catholic (tho not overtly so any more)
BU is large
Both are places people go to when they don't get into Harvard but still want the Boston experience and to rub shoulders with the Harvard kids. I am not joking.
I transferred from Georgetown, and BC is probably the most "Catholic" of all the Jesuit universities. Attending Georgetown is a multi-faith campus, felt extremely secular. BC the campus feels a lot more catholic. BC also has one of the best Theology schools in the United States, with over 100 Jesuits on campus. It's still one of the few Jesuit universities in America with a Jesuit as president.
You’ve revived multiple old threads about BC today to share this observation. What years were you a student at these schools??
Do any of your children have a 4.0 GPA in college at either the BC or Georgetown level, like me?
Anonymous
06/18/2025 00:10
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is small and traditionally Catholic (tho not overtly so any more)
BU is large
Both are places people go to when they don't get into Harvard but still want the Boston experience and to rub shoulders with the Harvard kids. I am not joking.
I transferred from Georgetown, and BC is probably the most "Catholic" of all the Jesuit universities. Attending Georgetown is a multi-faith campus, felt extremely secular. BC the campus feels a lot more catholic. BC also has one of the best Theology schools in the United States, with over 100 Jesuits on campus. It's still one of the few Jesuit universities in America with a Jesuit as president.
You’ve revived multiple old threads about BC today to share this observation. What years were you a student at these schools??
I'm a BC student right now. I transferred to BC from Georgetown last year, with a 4.0 GPA. Why do you care what threads I post on? That's kind of strange on your part.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 20:52
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is small and traditionally Catholic (tho not overtly so any more)
BU is large
Both are places people go to when they don't get into Harvard but still want the Boston experience and to rub shoulders with the Harvard kids. I am not joking.
I transferred from Georgetown, and BC is probably the most "Catholic" of all the Jesuit universities. Attending Georgetown is a multi-faith campus, felt extremely secular. BC the campus feels a lot more catholic. BC also has one of the best Theology schools in the United States, with over 100 Jesuits on campus. It's still one of the few Jesuit universities in America with a Jesuit as president.
You’ve revived multiple old threads about BC today to share this observation. What years were you a student at these schools??
Anonymous
05/30/2025 19:16
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BU feels like Pitt. BC feels like University of Richmond with Jesuits.
Not really. BU is Northeastern. NYU but the students not as good. Drexel. A little GWU.
BC is Duke, Wake Forest.
Drexel is two levels below BU.
GWU is a level below..
Duke is two levels above BC.
BU is like GWU, but a little bit higher, city campus, larger school
BC is like Georgetown, a little bit lower, mid sized school, enclosed campus adjacent to the city
I've attended Georgetown, and I'm a BC student now. Georgetown and BC are nothing alike except that both are Jesuit, although at Georgetown, you hardly notice it's Jesuit. Feels more Jewish/Muslim than anything. Campuses are different, and so is the student body.
Anonymous
05/30/2025 19:07
Subject: BU and BC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:BC is small and traditionally Catholic (tho not overtly so any more)
BU is large
Both are places people go to when they don't get into Harvard but still want the Boston experience and to rub shoulders with the Harvard kids. I am not joking.
I transferred from Georgetown, and BC is probably the most "Catholic" of all the Jesuit universities. Attending Georgetown is a multi-faith campus, felt extremely secular. BC the campus feels a lot more catholic. BC also has one of the best Theology schools in the United States, with over 100 Jesuits on campus. It's still one of the few Jesuit universities in America with a Jesuit as president.
Why are you bumping all the BC threads?