<p>Since BC has a religious background, would it affect a person who is not religious too much? so no one really cares? do school activities revolve mainly around the school’s religious background?</p>
<p>The religious stuff is there if you want it. If you don't go looking for it, you'd barely know it's there.</p>
<p>There are crosses in classrooms and on buildings, the admistration is out to maintain the schools catholic roots, and you see priests walking around campus</p>
<p>^^Do you even attend BC?</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm not religious at all, but I never felt like BC was forcibly imposing religion on me. You do have to take theology as apart of the university core, but they're not restricted to Catholicism. For instance, my theology courses focused on Buddhism.</p>
<p>Yeah, there are "priests walking around campus." There are also people wearing yarmulkas walking around campus. And maybe the occasional Muslim woman wearing a veil. If such things freak you out, you're going to have a tough time at any college. Walk into any classroom, and it's a lot more likely that your professor will be Jewish than a priest.</p>
<p>Is there any disadvantage of being highly involved in the Muslim community but applying to BC?</p>
<p>suubie clearly does not go to Boston College and instead prefers to propagate half-truths (complete untruths) about the university, for some unexplained reason.</p>
<p>What do you mean by "school activities"? If you're into sports, the hockey, bball, and especially the football games are well-attended by a good portion of the student body (but not necessarily by all). Intramural sports and club sports are extremely popular here, so there's that. If you like volunteering, there are scores of volunteer organizations -- from Appalachia Volunteers, to various other service trips, to other students who volunteer at the Campus School (a private day school for children and young adults with disabilities)...There are arts organizations, from theater, to dance, to music...and so on. If you're into writing/editing/photography/business, there's The Heights, the school newspaper (along with the less widely-read and circulated conservative and liberal papers).</p>
<p>Alienheat, I don't know what you mean by being "highly involved with the Muslim community," but if you're religious, I've found that people will be more curious than anything. But I can't necessarily speak from experience there. Although there was a Muslim girl on my floor who I suppose was fairly religious, and fasted throughout Ramadan -- and she's very actively involved in political and volunteer organizations on campus too. She even went on a "Pedro Arrupe" immersion trip, a program named after a Jesuit, for sure, but not an inherently religious experience. </p>
<p>So -- no. A large majority of the programs do not revolve around the school's religious background.</p>
<p>bc_eagle:</p>
<p>I don't mean the actual atmosphere of BC and how a Muslim would fit in, but the general admission process into BC. Since BC is a Jesuit school, would my application be looked down upon (obviously they can't techinically "discriminate" against me legally) since I have been so involved in the Muslim community during my High School years? By "highly involved" I mean I have been a part of the local Mosque's youth group for years now, doing a number of community service project, have been a volunteer assistant teacher at the Sunday School of the mosque, etc. So would this involvement be beneficial to my application or would it actually work against me?</p>
<p>Oh goodness no. BC may be Jesuit but it is also one of the most welcoming environments. I chose not to attend BC in the end but I'd like to say that even though I'm not relgiious and a minority student BC made me feel really welcome. As a person who both went through the admissions process and who knows a person who worked in the offices at BC they most certainly do not discriminate and encourage diversity.</p>
<p>Well thank goodness. That's great news since BC is my number one choice right now. I heard that Jesuit schools are also very service oriented and look for applicants that do a lot of community service. By the end of High School I will probably have around 300 hours of total community service. 200 at the hospital, and about 125 hours or so from my Mosque. Would it be wise to emphasize this?</p>
<p>Yeah! Like any other school they want to have applicants who are well rounded so I'd emphasize any community service work you've done.</p>