Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 11:12     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why do you bother with student articles in student newspapers? Read some of the comments. “As with most student publications, authors need to learn balance in their reporting…”. Never bother with student newspapers. You are going to get juvenile, slanted writing


What a weird post. Near where I live, a high school reporter uncovered embezzlement by the superintendent- they may a movie out of it starring Hugh Jackman, Bad Education. Anyway, there are a lot of talented college journalists...

This quote is so funny to me: have a “desire to live in community with our associates degree students.”
Sure, Jan.

lol. I agree with the poster that said rich families allow poor students to go to these schools.... but doing it this way is just wrong. Don't say you have a program for a certain population that's not really for them.


Agree, there's a better way to have a back door for non 1st gen kids, this is silly and embarrassing. The Chanel bag comment was a riot. Just do the Northeastern thing and send them to Madrid or Paris for a semester, geez, where they can shop and eat at fancy restaurants....lol
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 11:09     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:Why do you bother with student articles in student newspapers? Read some of the comments. “As with most student publications, authors need to learn balance in their reporting…”. Never bother with student newspapers. You are going to get juvenile, slanted writing


What a weird post. Near where I live, a high school reporter uncovered embezzlement by the superintendent- they may a movie out of it starring Hugh Jackman, Bad Education. Anyway, there are a lot of talented college journalists...

This quote is so funny to me: have a “desire to live in community with our associates degree students.”
Sure, Jan.

lol. I agree with the poster that said rich families allow poor students to go to these schools.... but doing it this way is just wrong. Don't say you have a program for a certain population that's not really for them.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:58     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:Who the hell pays 100K for their kid to go to BC? WTF. - MIT grad


Where do you think the kids of rich people should go to college? They should all go to their state school just because "it doesn't make sense" to pay that much for education? I pay 65K a year for my kid to attend GWU. Is that still too much? He got 20K merit aid, the sticker price is 85K. What's your threshold, PP, for families who don't qualify for financial aid?

Not very bright, are you?

Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:53     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:Why do you bother with student articles in student newspapers? Read some of the comments. “As with most student publications, authors need to learn balance in their reporting…”. Never bother with student newspapers. You are going to get juvenile, slanted writing


You mean just like on DCUM?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:52     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:Who the hell pays 100K for their kid to go to BC? WTF. - MIT grad


Is it really that hard to understand that there are so many different kinds of people, each with different goals and pursuits?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:37     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.


The difference is that they don’t (at least as far as we know—but maybe student journalists will start looking) have a special, 15-student program for donor/legacy kids that is awkwardly positioned between the main campus and a an associates degree program designed for low-income, first-gen students.


This. I find this so offensive. This is VERY different than going to Northeastern abroad or BU CGS.


BU no longer has CGS but you can go to England for a year.


???
https://www.bu.edu/cgs/about/
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:37     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
The kids who are paying the full boat are helping to fund the program for other kids. Without full boat kids there isn't a program.

And I agree that lots of schools have this program. Here is one at Notre Dame.

https://admissions.nd.edu/gateway-program/
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:37     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.


The difference is that they don’t (at least as far as we know—but maybe student journalists will start looking) have a special, 15-student program for donor/legacy kids that is awkwardly positioned between the main campus and a an associates degree program designed for low-income, first-gen students.


This. So contrary to the Jesuit mission.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:28     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So it’s ok to accept unqualified students into Messina, with hopes of transferring to BC, as long as they aren’t rich?


It’s not “unqualified students” it’s a qualified student they reject and they can live in Boston, ho to college for 1 year at an alternate program, get a 3.4 GPA and automatically transfer.

Almost every college has a program similar,


Every college in Virginia does it. I think all the public colleges in California do, too.


In CA, it is often a question of cost, UCs don’t do it for wealthy kids. I know kids who got admitted unconditionally to UCs who are going to community college instead. It is nothing like the BC Foundations program.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:28     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.


The difference is that they don’t (at least as far as we know—but maybe student journalists will start looking) have a special, 15-student program for donor/legacy kids that is awkwardly positioned between the main campus and a an associates degree program designed for low-income, first-gen students.


This. I find this so offensive. This is VERY different than going to Northeastern abroad or BU CGS.


BU no longer has CGS but you can go to England for a year.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:25     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.


The difference is that they don’t (at least as far as we know—but maybe student journalists will start looking) have a special, 15-student program for donor/legacy kids that is awkwardly positioned between the main campus and a an associates degree program designed for low-income, first-gen students.


We already saw the comment that someone was in the program and their parent wasn't a donor.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:25     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.


The difference is that they don’t (at least as far as we know—but maybe student journalists will start looking) have a special, 15-student program for donor/legacy kids that is awkwardly positioned between the main campus and a an associates degree program designed for low-income, first-gen students.


This. I find this so offensive. This is VERY different than going to Northeastern abroad or BU CGS.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:17     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.


The difference is that they don’t (at least as far as we know—but maybe student journalists will start looking) have a special, 15-student program for donor/legacy kids that is awkwardly positioned between the main campus and a an associates degree program designed for low-income, first-gen students.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:13     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Lots of schools do this, offer alternative tracks to students who don't have the stats. BU, Northeastern, UMD etc.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2026 10:09     Subject: The “backdoor” to Boston College just got outed by the student newspaper. Ouch.
Anonymous wrote:Why do you bother with student articles in student newspapers? Read some of the comments. “As with most student publications, authors need to learn balance in their reporting…”. Never bother with student newspapers. You are going to get juvenile, slanted writing


Tell that to The Stanford Daily, whose reporting forced University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne to resign in 2023.

Of course, the student reporter, Theo Baker, is journalism royalty, the son of NYT Chief WH Correspondent Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, formerly of The Washington Post. But, nonetheless, student journalism can have real impact. And break real news. Don't be so dismissive.