HI I am very late to post but I just want to make a VERY important post as it relates to social life at BC. Some has already been implied but I want to drive home the point because I think it’s very important. I am an alum and the mother of a junior girl who I honestly worry parties way more than she should.
First thing to know…BC is great and each year you are there is unique.
Freshman year: You may find some huge parties if you are “lucky”…but please keep this in mind. Freshmen at BC live in traditional dorms (whether it be Upper or Newton either is fine) really BOND. You will make your best friends this year whether they be on your floor, in your building, or on your campus and you have some classes together…but the freshman form great friendships that last a lifetime. And you will continue to make more friends as the years go on to.
Sophomore year: Whether or not you live on lower, you will know people that do and they do have parties. Not animal house parties (thankfully in my opinion) but there are parties and if you want to go to them, you will. They may get broken up, but they don’t always.
Junior year: A chunk of you will move off this year (but keep your eye on the prize…senior year you are ALL back on campus!!) and there are parties everywhere off campus. You will have to pick which ones to go to. If you are like my daughter, you had four years housing but you decided to give up your third year because not all of your friends had four years and you want to stay together. And the plan is to move back on an try to get a MOD senior year.
Senior year: OK, unlike MOST colleges, senior year is THE BEST at BC…so all of these kids that you have bonded with and maybe you used to complain a bit about not going to upperclassmen parties, but now you have arrived and it is YOUR turn. You won’t want to graduate. If you get a mod, you will have parties. If you don’t, you will still go to them (might be the best of both worlds because you will be close by…lower campus is not a very big place!!).
What is uber special about BC is that the social life/bonding really gets stronger and stronger every year…no it doesn’t have that frat party feel until junior/senior year for everyone (but not as gross, in my opinion) but this is why you won’t be sick of college life at this point. At schools like Michigan and Penn State, everyone moves off campus eventually. BC’s best year is senior year and you will love every minute of it.
If you are prospective freshman looking at BC, please please please do NOT let the huge frat party image you have in your head rule your college decision process…if you get that as a freshman you may grow to hate it and get sick of it.
Hope this helps some people.