Anonymous wrote:For Class of 2029. Georgetown acceptance rate 12%, yield 47%. Holy Cross acceptance rate 17%, yield 47%. By contrast. Gonzaga acceptance rate 80%, yield 16%. LMU 49% acceptance rate, yield 14%. Santa Clara acceptance rate48%, yield 17%. Clearly Georgetown and Holy Cross are extremely selective the others are nowhere near.
Anonymous wrote:Most of Boston College campus is not in Boston but Chesnut Hill and Newton.
Anonymous wrote:ND is the flagship of all Catholic schools by significant amount. GU is barely Catholic and HC is a LAC.
Anonymous wrote:Only 3 Jesuit schools are academically well respected Georgetown, Holy Cross, and Boston College. The rest seem average at best and don’t know how they compete with higher ranked state schools.
Anonymous wrote:Why are we quoting US news? We all know how absurd it’s gotten. Fingers crossed we get into #42 Rutgers but at least we’ll have #51 William and Mary to fall back on. Since I got into #69 Tulane I sure am feeling better about my chances at #57 UC Merced. US news ranking has devolved into some sort of weird DEI fan fic. Has absolutely nothing to do with reputation
Anonymous wrote:ND may be best academically but more conservative than Jesuit brethren Georgetown and Holy Cross.
Anonymous wrote:My guess is BC was a commuter school well into the 80s just like some of the others PC and Nova.
You’d be wrong. By the 1970 there were very few commuters.
Anonymous wrote:ND is the flagship of all Catholic schools by significant amount. GU is barely Catholic and HC is a LAC.
Anonymous wrote:Not surprised about Holy Cross doing so well but non-Jesuit ND grads also highly successful. Notre Dame endowment at $20 billion is perhaps higher than the top 10 Jesuit schools combined.