Anonymous
09/30/2025 09:39
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Top 10 LACs are better academically than the likes of Vandy, Cornell, Emory and ND. And Holy Cross is up there with Georgetown and ND but a step down. Kids going to Williams and Amherst could get into Duke.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 07:40
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Of course one can compare LAC rankings with National Universities. Is it apples to apples of course not. Analogy everyone would say top ranked LACs Williams and Amherst are better than Vandy, ND or Emory. Both BC and Villanova were not ranked by US News until the 1990s as both were regional schools. But another fact HC at 3,000 kids has graduated 5 Rhodes Scholars while BC at 10,000 enrollment just 2.
I wouldn't be so sure Williams and Amherst are better than ND, Emory, Vandy etc. If they are, its only by a tiny bit.
Williams is better than those schools, Amherst probably even -
Better how? More selective, absolutely. But the top students at Vanderbilt would be as impressive as the top students at Williams. Those students just prefer different things. Spending four years at a LAC Williamstown MA is a much different choice than choosing a research university in Nashville. Both valid choices.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 07:22
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
HC has well rounded kids that probably explains their success in corporate world much higher visibility grads than Boston. And Williams is significantly better than ND.
Anonymous
09/30/2025 06:08
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Of course one can compare LAC rankings with National Universities. Is it apples to apples of course not. Analogy everyone would say top ranked LACs Williams and Amherst are better than Vandy, ND or Emory. Both BC and Villanova were not ranked by US News until the 1990s as both were regional schools. But another fact HC at 3,000 kids has graduated 5 Rhodes Scholars while BC at 10,000 enrollment just 2.
I wouldn't be so sure Williams and Amherst are better than ND, Emory, Vandy etc. If they are, its only by a tiny bit.
Williams is better than those schools, Amherst probably even -
Anonymous
09/30/2025 05:58
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Of course one can compare LAC rankings with National Universities. Is it apples to apples of course not. Analogy everyone would say top ranked LACs Williams and Amherst are better than Vandy, ND or Emory. Both BC and Villanova were not ranked by US News until the 1990s as both were regional schools. But another fact HC at 3,000 kids has graduated 5 Rhodes Scholars while BC at 10,000 enrollment just 2.
I wouldn't be so sure Williams and Amherst are better than ND, Emory, Vandy etc. If they are, its only by a tiny bit.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 23:02
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Always was. Historically, Holy Cross was the school for the upper class Catholics in Boston.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 22:45
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Ask the Chestnut Hill neighbors what they think of BC. In sports they root for any team playing the BC Eagles. Back to Holy Cross class school.
It’s a blight on what is an upper class neighborhood. They send their children to ISL schools and would never consider sending them to BC. It’s the butt end of many jokes in Boston Brahmin circles
Anonymous
09/29/2025 21:36
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Ask the Chestnut Hill neighbors what they think of BC. In sports they root for any team playing the BC Eagles. Back to Holy Cross class school.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 20:52
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Agree with others HC kids are more polite or nicer than those at Boston College. Don’t know much about Villanova.
More articulate than BC too. I’d say Nova is similar to HC in that regard. When I toured BC the guide had a real potty mouth. Vile language at every stop, one family left early.
My kid had a fantastic tour at BC. The guide was wonderful.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 20:47
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Agree with others HC kids are more polite or nicer than those at Boston College. Don’t know much about Villanova.
More articulate than BC too. I’d say Nova is similar to HC in that regard. When I toured BC the guide had a real potty mouth. Vile language at every stop, one family left early.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 20:44
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Agree with others HC kids are more polite or nicer than those at Boston College. Don’t know much about Villanova.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 16:45
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
The point is, going to BC is no more like going to school in Boston than going to Solano CC is like going to school in SF
Meant Holy Cross
BC works too. It’s not really in the city.
PP: I chuckled at this because I’ve thought this as well.
This is such a weird flex. So only BU and NEU are the only schools you’re referring to? Won’t Harvard be surprised.
FWIW, my kid’s dorm this year at BC is within Boston city limits. Last year her dorm was in Chestnut Hill. Next year she’ll likely live in Brighton — all within a mile radius.
BC is a PWI in a predominately white upper middle class neighborhood. That’s not the experience that many kids expect when they say they want to go to school in a city. Yes, think more BU, NYU, GT, Cal, USF. Diverse schools in diverse urban settings. My son selected Boston as one of the cities where he wanted to go to school, applied to BU, didn’t apply to BC.
Even within the white population it’s not diverse. It’s all Catholics kids from New England suburbs that aren’t that nice.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 15:51
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Go visit Holy Cross in a home football weekend. The school spirit distinguishes it from any other SLAC. HC has graduated lots of wealthy people especially women in the last 25 years.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 15:31
Subject: Re:College of the Holy Cross?
what's pwi and why is pp obsessing over BC? It's not like its location or national rank are in dispute. And the thread is about HC.
Anonymous
09/29/2025 15:30
Subject: College of the Holy Cross?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
The point is, going to BC is no more like going to school in Boston than going to Solano CC is like going to school in SF
Meant Holy Cross
BC works too. It’s not really in the city.
PP: I chuckled at this because I’ve thought this as well.
This is such a weird flex. So only BU and NEU are the only schools you’re referring to? Won’t Harvard be surprised.
FWIW, my kid’s dorm this year at BC is within Boston city limits. Last year her dorm was in Chestnut Hill. Next year she’ll likely live in Brighton — all within a mile radius.
BC is a PWI in a predominately white upper middle class neighborhood. That’s not the experience that many kids expect when they say they want to go to school in a city. Yes, think more BU, NYU, GT, Cal, USF. Diverse schools in diverse urban settings. My son selected Boston as one of the cities where he wanted to go to school, applied to BU, didn’t apply to BC.
So, no Harvard or MIT either - not Boston enough !
To be frank, he wouldn’t have been accepted. But it is worth noting that you only have to walk across a bridge to BU and that Harvard and MIT actually have a diverse group of students, they aren’t PWIs so very different than BC. But you are correct, it isn’t a BU, NYU, GT, Cal experience, but much closer than BC.