<p>I know Boston College has a religious affiliation. Does this mean it is a school FOR religious people? I'm an atheist, so that wouldn't really work. </p>
<p>I've noticed that about Georgetown as well. Same thing?</p>
<p>This is strange. The only major university I ever thought of having a religious affiliation before was BMU</p>
<p>Boston College or Georgetown will be very welcoming to athiests or any other flavor of secular humanist. These are great universities that believe in learning and partying. No one is going to push Catholicism on you. Catholics that desire to find some fellowship and spiritual growth can find it, but they will have to look really, really hard.</p>
<p>And, I think BMU changed its name to BYU a little while ago.</p>
<p>We visited BC along with several other Jesuit schools even though we are not Catholic. If memory serves, the BC tour guide stated that students were required to take 3 required theology courses to graduate. He hastened to add that there were numerous choices of what courses to take, and that they covered a wide variety of religeons and philosophies. One of the most popular is a course they offer in marraige and death rituals across religions. Although 30% of the campus calls itself Catholic, he indicated that that number includes Catholics that were born Catholic and don’t attend Mass all the way to those who attend mass every day. Santa Clara University appeared to have a similar take. USF basically sneered at the person who questioned their Catholic background, and does not have a theology requirement.</p>
<p>No it isn’t forced upon you and if you are required to take theology classes just treat them like social studies. The atheists at my Jesuit highschool absolutely murder the religion classes in relation to everyone else due to their treatment of the class. People who are Catholic already, treat it as a joke and only get A-'s :p.</p>
<p>Interesting. I think I may apply then.
But there are indeed more religious people at these schools than the average private school, correct? Do you think an atheist would find himself happier at a school with more like-minded people? Perhaps athiests? Of course, this might only make sense to me because I’m from a small school where the majority IS the reality.</p>
<p>Just FYI, the brochures from Boston University, which is not a Jesuit college, lists Catholics as 30% of the students as well. Don’t know the numbers offhand for other schools -</p>
<p>For most selective Catholic colleges that are not run by the local bishop, they are very tolerant of other religions. However, I’d really hesitate to attend if I was an atheist.</p>