Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 12:58     Subject: Re:College of the Holy Cross?
And just to help out posters: Boston area schools are BC, Tufts, Brandeis, Wellesley, Bentley, Babson, Olin, Northeastern, BU, Harvard, MiT.

Worcester has WPI, Holy Cross, Clark, Assumption, and UMass Med…

Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 12:53     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is it just the one pp who barges in on any Boston area college thread to school every one on Boston city limits? So we can only talk about BU and NEU? We all know the group of colleges others are referring to without pulling out the zip code map.
BTW, HC has a T stop which is nice.


Being able to take an Amtrak train from Worcester to Boston isn’t some huge benefit. Maybe you do that once a month, tops. It’s like saying Brown has a train stop, what’s your point?

It’s exactly like saying Providence is part of Boston. It’s not. Nor is Hartford. Yes, you can get to Boston in an hour and have a nice Saturday. But Worcester being the second largest city of New England means lots of internship opportunities there. Worcester county has a lot of older towns and countryside, so you can also go pumpkin picking or fall foliage sighting in the fall — just 15 minutes from Worcester.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 12:06     Subject: Re:College of the Holy Cross?
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Anonymous wrote:My niece was lured to HC by a full ride and the promise of a 3-2 program where she could transfer to a top engineering program after three years. I tried to talk her out of it as she had better options for engineering school, but she was stubborn and really thought she wanted a small, catholic school experience. The 3-2 program turned out to be a bait-and-switch; very few students actually transfered to the engineering school and there were like 50 of them competing for 2-3 spots. I don't know why anyone would take this over a four-year, guaranteed enginering program.

She transfered out after one year. HC was VERY small, little to no diversity, little to no opportunities for clubs, ativities, etc. Plus Wooster is a miserable town. She ended up at a much larger, highly-ranked state school and is so happy there. Totally different experience for sure which goes to show that kids don't always know what they want at 18.

This has nothing to do with Holy Cross. Nobody should plan on a 3-2 engineering program. If you go to school in Worcester, just a few minutes from downtown, diversity is not a legit complaint. Anyhow, free ride poster, you sound…ungrateful for the free ride.


Well, it was my niece who got the free ride - not me. She was very grateful for it. And I totally agree with you on the 3-2 program - I didn't know what they were prior to her admission to HC, it sounded too good to be true at the time, and I would never recommend one to anyone now. The reasons she left was becuase HC was way too small and offered very little opportunities that she was seeing her high school friends have at larger universities. That included variety of courses, clubs, social activities, etc. And the campus is pretty much all white - if that matters to you.

Someone asked for feedback on HC and I'm sharing one young woman's experience. It is only one person's experience.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 12:00     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Is it just the one pp who barges in on any Boston area college thread to school every one on Boston city limits? So we can only talk about BU and NEU? We all know the group of colleges others are referring to without pulling out the zip code map.
BTW, HC has a T stop which is nice.
That “T stop” is commuter rail, not the Boston subway that people mean when they say T. Trains run every two hours and the trip to Boston is 1.5 hours.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 11:25     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
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Anonymous wrote:Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

“Historically” being the key word. HC has not kept up its old reputation. But if kid is looking for a good small school in Boston, then sure.
Not in Boston, 45 minutes away in Worcester. Probably the reason BC has surpassed it in rankings.


They aren’t ranked side by side. HC is liberal arts. BC is national university. Neither is good
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 11:09     Subject: Re:College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:My niece was lured to HC by a full ride and the promise of a 3-2 program where she could transfer to a top engineering program after three years. I tried to talk her out of it as she had better options for engineering school, but she was stubborn and really thought she wanted a small, catholic school experience. The 3-2 program turned out to be a bait-and-switch; very few students actually transfered to the engineering school and there were like 50 of them competing for 2-3 spots. I don't know why anyone would take this over a four-year, guaranteed enginering program.

She transfered out after one year. HC was VERY small, little to no diversity, little to no opportunities for clubs, ativities, etc. Plus Wooster is a miserable town. She ended up at a much larger, highly-ranked state school and is so happy there. Totally different experience for sure which goes to show that kids don't always know what they want at 18.

This has nothing to do with Holy Cross. Nobody should plan on a 3-2 engineering program. If you go to school in Worcester, just a few minutes from downtown, diversity is not a legit complaint. Anyhow, free ride poster, you sound…ungrateful for the free ride.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 11:05     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
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Anonymous wrote:Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

“Historically” being the key word. HC has not kept up its old reputation. But if kid is looking for a good small school in Boston, then sure.


Depends on how you define “in” Boston. But I don’t count Worcester as in Boston.

Worcester is the second largest city in all of New England folks.



Irrelevant to PP’s point, which is HC isn’t in Boston. It’s 46.9 miles away in Worcester. That’s like saying Pomona College is in downtown LA (it’s actually only 35 miles away but will take you two hours of harrowing traffic to get there)


Even Pasadena is not LA.

You don’t understand. New England is old. Worcester is its own entity. Cities and towns are nothing like Cali.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 11:00     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
PP again - sorry Worcester - not Wooster!! Different school, different state
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 10:59     Subject: Re:College of the Holy Cross?
My niece was lured to HC by a full ride and the promise of a 3-2 program where she could transfer to a top engineering program after three years. I tried to talk her out of it as she had better options for engineering school, but she was stubborn and really thought she wanted a small, catholic school experience. The 3-2 program turned out to be a bait-and-switch; very few students actually transfered to the engineering school and there were like 50 of them competing for 2-3 spots. I don't know why anyone would take this over a four-year, guaranteed enginering program.

She transfered out after one year. HC was VERY small, little to no diversity, little to no opportunities for clubs, ativities, etc. Plus Wooster is a miserable town. She ended up at a much larger, highly-ranked state school and is so happy there. Totally different experience for sure which goes to show that kids don't always know what they want at 18.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 10:57     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

“Historically” being the key word. HC has not kept up its old reputation. But if kid is looking for a good small school in Boston, then sure.
Not in Boston, 45 minutes away in Worcester. Probably the reason BC has surpassed it in rankings.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 10:50     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Is it just the one pp who barges in on any Boston area college thread to school every one on Boston city limits? So we can only talk about BU and NEU? We all know the group of colleges others are referring to without pulling out the zip code map.
BTW, HC has a T stop which is nice.


No, but saying that Holy Cross is in Boston is the same as saying George Mason is in DC and GMU is a heck of a lot closer to DC than HC is to downtown Boston.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 10:48     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Does same poster start a new Holy Cross thread every two weeks?
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 10:02     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Is it just the one pp who barges in on any Boston area college thread to school every one on Boston city limits? So we can only talk about BU and NEU? We all know the group of colleges others are referring to without pulling out the zip code map.
BTW, HC has a T stop which is nice.


Being able to take an Amtrak train from Worcester to Boston isn’t some huge benefit. Maybe you do that once a month, tops. It’s like saying Brown has a train stop, what’s your point?
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 09:36     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Is it just the one pp who barges in on any Boston area college thread to school every one on Boston city limits? So we can only talk about BU and NEU? We all know the group of colleges others are referring to without pulling out the zip code map.
BTW, HC has a T stop which is nice.
Anonymous
Post 09/28/2025 02:40     Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Better academically than Boston college or Villanova, historically

“Historically” being the key word. HC has not kept up its old reputation. But if kid is looking for a good small school in Boston, then sure.


Depends on how you define “in” Boston. But I don’t count Worcester as in Boston.

Worcester is the second largest city in all of New England folks.



Irrelevant to PP’s point, which is HC isn’t in Boston. It’s 46.9 miles away in Worcester. That’s like saying Pomona College is in downtown LA (it’s actually only 35 miles away but will take you two hours of harrowing traffic to get there)


Even Pasadena is not LA.