Technically, half the campus is in Boston. Chestnut Hill is really just a neighborhood that straddles multiple municipalities.

40% of the freshman live on Newton campus about a mile or two away. That has been the case for decades. The Newton kids tend to be a tightly-knit group.

BC is a great school. However, it's not in Boston (Chestnut Hill, MA) and it's not really a College (really a university).

During our tour, the guide mentioned there are some "Freshman Dorms" that are "miles" (?) from the main campus--this would bother me.

Looking forward to BC finishing their new student fitness center!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a competitive school (as above 27% acceptance) and its CATHOLIC

so its not waspy.

Jesus.

+1

The opposite of WASPy. It's where Boston Irish Catholics went, back when WASPy establishment schools would not admit them.

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Exactly this. I can not fathom the number of PPs who are talking out of their arses right now. I shouldn't be surprised.

Wasp doesn’t mean Protestant anymore. It hasn’t for at least 40 years. William Buckley was a wasp and he was Catholic obviously.

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Anonymous wrote:We are in Boston. Went to visit last summer, my laid back jewish kid hated it. Campus is beautiful but catholic landmarks everywhere which was a turnoff for him. The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats. I know people who go/went there love it but not for my son. He loved BU and Brandeis, even umass amherst more than bc

Well, yes. It seems logical that a ...Catholic school would have physical indicators that it is Catholic.

Thank you PP. That “turnoff” line made me LOL too. It cracks me up when people are shocked that they’re not able to ignore something they don’t want. It’s a Catholic school whether you want it to be or not. I would get why a Jewish kid would feel infinitely more at home at BU or Brandeis. UMass Amherst is THE party school in the MA state system so I’m not surprised when ANY college kid feels at home there!

But back to the point, sadly BC has gotten too big for it’s britches and priced out the very demographic it was founded to serve. Blue collar Catholic kids can no longer afford it (or get in!) so some of the smaller Catholic colleges fill that gap. BC does its best to hold a Catholic identity even with increasingly secular students and sometimes controversial Jesuit influences.

Not a lot of merit aid available, which explains the number of wealthy kids. If we didn't have the cash to pay, we would be taking advantage of merit aid elsewhere...at a place like Fordham.

41% of BC students receive financial aid and the average Grant is $41K

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Anonymous wrote:The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats.

BC has no fraternities, absolutely no greek system whatsoever, whether official or unofficial. However, it does have Division 1 sports.

Most Boston area schools do not have Greek life on campus, for liability reasons. I don't expect too many people in this area to know the facts about this kind of thing.

In addition, for those people here who think that expensive schools have mostly full pay, they do - that doesn't mean that they are inferior schools in any way - on the contrary. Get out of your bubble a little and learn something.

Anonymous wrote:We are in Boston. Went to visit last summer, my laid back jewish kid hated it. Campus is beautiful but catholic landmarks everywhere which was a turnoff for him. The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats. I know people who go/went there love it but not for my son. He loved BU and Brandeis, even umass amherst more than bc

Well, yes. It seems logical that a ...Catholic school would have physical indicators that it is Catholic.

Anonymous wrote:You are going to have very little spare change out of $70k for BC.

You're better off at MIT for the same price.

Oh, yeah, it’s just that easy

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a competitive school (as above 27% acceptance) and its CATHOLIC

so its not waspy.

Jesus.

+1

The opposite of WASPy. It's where Boston Irish Catholics went, back when WASPy establishment schools would not admit them.

+1

Exactly this. I can not fathom the number of PPs who are talking out of their arses right now. I shouldn't be surprised.

Anonymous wrote:You are going to have very little spare change out of $70k for BC.

You're better off at MIT for the same price.

Now I know you have NO idea what you are talking about.

Anonymous wrote:We are in Boston. Went to visit last summer, my laid back jewish kid hated it. Campus is beautiful but catholic landmarks everywhere which was a turnoff for him. The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats. I know people who go/went there love it but not for my son. He loved BU and Brandeis, even umass amherst more than bc

The Jewish kids are at BU, that's why.

You are going to have very little spare change out of $70k for BC.

You're better off at MIT for the same price.

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Anonymous wrote:The local kids i know who go there are very much into sports and frats.

BC has no fraternities, absolutely no greek system whatsoever, whether official or unofficial. However, it does have Division 1 sports.

sorry you are right, I was typing fast and should of wrote a "bro" culture instead. Not sure how to best describe it but it has that feel of rich spoiled boys. However, lots of our neighbors went there and are very successful good people. It just felt very off to us. Like I said, beautiful campus and a very nice stadium,some love it some hate it. Not a "safety" school though.

Anonymous wrote:It is. Too little aid. Lots of UMC mostly white kids.

It is very stingy with financial aid.

It does award a very limited amount of merit aid - 15 full rides a year, IIRC.