<p>Who puts that much effort into trolling? For that matter, what fun do you get out of trolling a college information forum?! My god… (No pun intended).</p>
<p>You’d be amazed. :D</p>
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<p>Exactly right. But why anyone would spend hours researching a school that clearly has religious leanings and then come to an online forum only to diss them for their religions leanings is beyond comprehension.</p>
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<p>Wellesley is not in the metro Boston area. Brandeis is (marginally) less selective than BC, not to also mention you can’t access Brandeis through the T. Also, I’m pretty sure Jesuit Ivy was a title designated by JFK or something.</p>
<p>The campus is beautiful, but I agree it’s not top 10.</p>
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<p>I believe that is correct, or at least JFK mentioned it in a speech to BC.</p>
<p>Brandeis is considered to be in the “MetroWest” area and is about 9 miles west of downtown Boston. It **does **have public transportation to Boston via the commuter rail or buses, though clearly it is not as close or convenient to downtown as BC is.
I agree that BU is more like Northeastern and BC is very different than both, more of an LAC feel to it.</p>
<p>Agreed. If it wasn’t for their geographic proximity and hockey, they would almost never be in the same sentence.</p>
<p>In terms of feel and size, Boston College is closer to Brandeis and Tufts. However the student culture is as different as you can get.</p>
<p>Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder. We did not find BC to be beautiful. We found the tan/grey repetitive color of the buildings boring and unattractive. Given the hype about how beautiful it was supposed to be, we were surprised and disappointed. However, others may like it.</p>
<p>^^Absolutely. One college blog rates BC #20 on its most beautiful list. While I personally like BC’s look, I was not too impressed with a few of the other colleges on that same list. :D</p>
<p>Consolation: You may be new to college admissions, so here’s a wiki page to this Jesuit Ivy thing, which is stupid, I agree.</p>
<p>[Jesuit</a> Ivy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Ivy]Jesuit”>Little Ivies - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>I hate the idea of any school using the Ivy monicer unless they are ACTUALLY an IVY school. I’ve never seen BC as an institution use it, so I won’t hate on them too much, at least not as much as I do those schools using the moniker “Public Ivy”, which is just LOLz.</p>
<p>As to the campus rankings, I don’t need to correct you as others have. It hurts to be proven wrong by so many people in one thread. You might want to research a little before posting “corrections.” LOL.</p>
<p>I’ll just leave this here too, [America’s</a> Most Beautiful College Libraries- Page 2 - Articles | Travel + Leisure](<a href=“http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-most-beautiful-college-libraries/2]America’s”>http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-most-beautiful-college-libraries/2)</p>
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<p>You said it was considered in the “top 10.” Somebody mentioned that on ONE blog it was top 20. Nice try.</p>
<p>The rest of your claims are equally ridiculous.</p>
<p>Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,
Not utter’d by base sale of chapmen’s tongues</p>
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<p>I don’t know about BC’s offerings, but Georgetown, also a Jesuit university has a similar requirement for theology. Our guide had fulfilled it by taking a course on existentialism in Fifth Republic France. Not exactly Christian indoctrination!</p>
<p>@mathmom holy crap! (No pun intended) but that sounds like such a cool course to take. I really hope I get into Gtown.</p>
<p>I’ll try and help you out a bit as a student at BC and part timer at BU.</p>
<p>Campus:
BC has a traditional college campus. Very closed, very green. Gothic architecture and extremely beautiful buildings. They just finished building a new academic building that fits right in aesthetically and will be opening this semester</p>
<p>BU is very urban. Not much green, it spans a mile along Comm Ave. Some dorms face the Mass Pike as well. If not for the BU signs/plaques it can be hard to differentiate between BU buildings and other non-BU ones. Much better access to stores/food as it is in the city. Really, if you want urban this is for you.</p>
<p>Classes:
BC fits better if you have an idea of what you want to do. There’s only 4 schools and transferring between them is not easy. However, if you know you don’t want to do engineering or want to do business/some liberal arts then BC classes are a bit smaller.</p>
<p>BU has a lot of breadth so it really works if you have no clue as to what you want to do. I can’t speak to quality, but e warned, many of my friends at BU constantly complain about some nasty grade deflation.</p>
<p>Costs I think are pretty comparable, both being private universities.</p>
<p>Prestige: Around Boston/MA both are pretty known though in my experience BC is thought of as more exclusive, but once outside BC really overtakes BU here. BC has a national reputation, partly due to the football program, but also academically. There are many BC grads on Wall St. and BC is ranked higher in most rankings (US News, Forbes, etc.)</p>
<p>Scholarships I couldn’t tell you about. But BC does have a reputation of being stingy.</p>
<p>You should also know that the student bodies are very different. BC has the stereotype of being upper/upper-middle class white kids and many are. Guys are generally preppy, think polo’s, boat shoes, salmon shorts, and snap-backs. Girls are typically yoga pants and ugg’s or whatever they are. That’s not to say that everyone is like that, but BU has much more diversity.</p>
<p>And as to the Catholic thing, BC is Catholic but it’s not an issue. I’m a staunch atheist and religion is never forced down your throat and rarely even comes up at all. You won’t be thought of as weird for not going to church or anything like that. BC has a core requirement of Theology and Philosophy, I fulfilled both of these in a class called Perspectives on Western Culture, a class you can take for both semesters of your Freshman year to kill those requirements. You read all the great thinkers, Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, some Bible, Nietzsche, Kant etc. etc. Hardly religious indoctrination by any means.</p>