<p>hoyasaxa1, you are amazing! I read all of your other posts about WUSTL, ND,CMU,USC, all Canadian schools and now BC! How is it possible that someone could know everything about everything the way you do? The one thing is, however, your answers were very similiar. You put down all of these schools while desperately trying to display your brilliance. Sadly, instead of coming across as a smart, knowledgeable, all around fantastic guy, you appear small, petty and pathetic. I take it you probably were rejected from all of these schools and therefore this is the reason you are so arrogantly hostile?</p>
<p>Nope, not rejected by any of them–didn’t apply to any of them actually. Worked in admissions at Duke and Georgetown, so know the processes pretty well at those schools and a bit about the admissions world as a result. Was a student member of the admissions committee too. Family is from Canada. Also, in med school now at Hopkins so have heard a lot about the pros and cons of these (and other) schools from my classmates and faculty here at Hopkins. Certainly have my opinions about schools and these processes (admissions, rankings, etc.), especially when they are misrepresented by people in an attempt to win others over. Not trying to be arrogantly hostile, so I apologize if you take it that way–what I am saying are simply facts–Georgetown rarely loses students and faculty to BC, etc.–FACT–is it arrogant to state that? I don’t think so (unless facts are arrogant).</p>
<p>I’ll quit now on this, because it is obviously annoying people, and that is not my goal.</p>
<p>hoyasaxa1:
It’s a good thing that you have quit because you hijacked this entire post to broadcast your alleged accomplishments, embellishments or whatever. I went to UC Berkeley so I don’t have a horse in this race. I just checked it out because I found the OP’s question interesting. Too bad she had to suffer through your palaver. (btw, nobody cares where you went to school, what you’re studying etc…why even mention all that? Has nothing to do with the OP’s question.)
So, this post is over.</p>
<p>Notre Dame, Holy Cross, and Georgetown were national schools from the beginning and as a result have more diverse geographical alumni networks. HC and ND have 2 of the highest alumni giving rates in the country with HC at over 54%.</p>
<p>here’s D’s list so far:
in order</p>
<p>reach
Bowdoin
Northwestern
Syracuse</p>
<p>Target
Villanova
Boston College
Trinity-Hartford</p>
<p>Safe/Solid
Univ Colorado
Univ Oregon
Marist
Xavier
Univ Santa Clara</p>
<p>California
CSU Northridge
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego</p>
<p>interested in communications -
GPA 3.70
ACT: 25 (32 in reading, 25/21 math science - retaking)
captain and member varsity sports - 4 years
student leadership director/member 2 years
active in church community - over 10 years
first generation college student
NHS/CSF - 4 years
4 years of everything (including 3 labs and foreign language)
2 APs - schedule did not permit for more
1 performing arts elective</p>
<p>thoughts on any of these schools and list would be appreciated</p>
<p>If you think a 25 ACT makes you safety for BC you are going to be disappointed for BC you need to be in the 30-31 or higher range. Although your reading score is impressive BC is looking for the whole package. GPA is good but you don’t mention SAT scores, AP scores or class rank??? Are you a junior or senior?</p>
<p>Sorry you mentioned bc as a target not safety…still think it’s a stretch based on the in for you’ve provided - good luck</p>
<p>let:</p>
<p>if 'Cuse is a reach, Northwestern and Bowdoin move into the lottery category. BC is more competitive than 'Cuse, so it’s also a reach</p>
<p>(Unless your D has a hook, that ACT score will really hinder chances.)</p>
<p>hoyasaxa1 wrote: “Georgetown RARELY loses students or faculty to BC; ND rarely loses students to BC (not sure about faculty). That is how I’m defining second tier.” </p>
<p>I have to respond to this. </p>
<p>First, who appointed you arbiter of tiers? What weight does your opinion actually hold? You have no authority that I know of to define tiers. </p>
<p>Second, by your faulty logic one would have to conclude that Penn and any number of other established “first tier” colleges would have to be placed in the second tier because most applicants would choose Harvard over them if given a choice.</p>
<p>How many applicants would take H over G is accepted at both? My guess is 80% and up.
Does that make G second tier?</p>
<p>Oh, and, yes, I’d like to know about G’s endowment predicament.</p>
<p>Anyways, back to the topic on hand.</p>
<p>As a student, I am only barely aware of BC’s “Catholic-ness”, for the lack of a better word. Yes, there are crucifixes here and there, the odd priest and nun, etc, but nearly all of it is inconspicuous. Personally, I know only one Jesuit personally on campus, and it simply because I took his statistics class last semester. </p>
<p>Is BC Catholic? Yes. Does it express its Catholic heritage as strongly as Notre Dame does? No. Does it express it more strongly than Georgetown? Most certainly.</p>
<p>OK, now to answer the original poster’s question: Nobody at BC cares what your religious views are, but you should be prepared to sit in classes that require you to learn Catholic theological and philisophy concepts, and be prepared to state where you stand on them and why. If that would offend you, then it’s an issue. But believe me you will not be alone in the classes if you say “I think it’s all hooey”. As long as you can intelligently defend it.</p>
<p>I chose BC because it struck me as middle-of-the-road compared to other schools I had as choices where anyone not leaning far left would have to walk around keeping it to themselves. Now starting my second year, I can say that BC has an active wide range of political and religious perspectives, but some of those happen to be (omg, dare I say) traditional and conservative. It’s pretty even-handed here. we have extremists on each end of the spectrum, but that’s everywhere except maybe Bob Jones University.</p>
<p>I’ll stay out of the running street battle in the postings above, regarding how schools rank against each other, and whose ■■■■■ balls swing the most pendulously. I have yet to see a college ranking methodology that holds water, so I’ll leave it to others to work that out. On my own personal list, BC is #1.</p>
<p>HoyaSaxa:</p>
<p>At the risk of renewing old rivalries, I’m sure you noticed that BC beat out a certain Jesuit school in DC in The Times international ranking… :)</p>
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