<p>What is the difference between the social atmosphere between Wellesley and BC besides the important fact that Wellesley is an all woman’s school. Is it true that Wellesley is much more multicultural (diverse) than BC? Are a majority of the student population at BC and Wellesley from rich, white suburbs? I’d appreciate your input. Thanks~</p>
<p>Having a good time at BC is usually seeing how high or drunk one can get</p>
<p>really? damn...i thought BC was gonna be a school i liked</p>
<p>There are all kinds of crowds at BC, but that seems to be the genral concensous and my personal ovservation. Don't get your hopes down about it, its what you make of it.</p>
<p>nvman1, </p>
<p>Beware of accepting one person's overgeneralized opinion as absolute fact. There are 9000 undergrads at BC; it's unlikely that all -- or even most --of them spend their free time testing their capacity for getting drunk or high.</p>
<p>If BC has looked like a school you thought you would like until you read the earlier post, don't discard it yet. Look at the guidebooks, visit the campus, ask current BC students who attend from your HS. Then decide.</p>
<p>S loved BC, but a friend's D knew it was not for her as soon as she spent a day there.</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong, I almost went to BC. But after spending over 5 days/nights on campus with some friends I learned differnelty. My so called 'opinion' is actually a rationaly based perception based on first hand knowlege. The school came off to me as a country club where rich irish catholics dump their kids for four years. Of course this doesnt go to the entire population of undergrads, but the majority. The lifestyle of this majority did not appeal to me; I feel that im more of a starbucks in the city person. My observation does not apply to every undergrad at BC, i actually met people who were the total opposite, but its still a majority. For me it was the fact that this school was recognized as a NCAA Division I team over a prestigous academic institution. Nevertheless, its a good school regardless, i sat in on some facinating classes. BC is definatly on the way up.</p>
<p>ahhhh please please please don't tell me this now.</p>
<p>pongo---
(i dont really even belong in this thread, i've just been browsing..i go to UMD, but just felt like giving my $.02...)</p>
<p>don't worry about it. xsuubiex is again, relaying an opinion. based on things that he has seen, yes, but still an opinion. i don't think that spending less than a week in a place, hanging out with the same group of people, gives you a fair impression of a place. my school is listed in the top 20 party schools, according to some magazine this year, and while i am a person who does love to go out and party, i know plenty of people that don't. just because i don't spend time with them doesn't mean they aren't out there.</p>
<p>any college as well-known and well-liked as BC by the general public will definitely have plenty of things for you to do that don't involve getting high or drunk with rich catholic kids all the time.</p>
<p>Yeah, Pongo, take your finger off the panic button. BC has Catholics and beer; so do 99.99 % of the other colleges in the country.</p>
<p>Is this a serious question? BC is about homogenous as they come. It's all white, preppy, affluent kids. The guys (and girls) are super cute, and I'd be hard-pressed to say the Gay/Lesbian Alliance is a big orgnaization on-campus considering its Jesuit conenction. Wellesly is a much more progressive, liberal leaning school with more diversity across the board. I wouldn't put the 2 schools in remotely the same category.</p>
<p>It really disgusts me how some people seem to view BC as this white, stuck up, beer guzzling school. I attend BC and can say, for a fact, not as a "5 day experience" or hearsay, or personal opinion, that BC is quite diverse, the students extremely intelligent, hard working, and (most) are far from stuck up. To say that an entire student body is rich and snottyfand that the school is a "country club" is incredibly insulting to all the students who attend Boston College. With 26,000 applicants and only 25-30% being accepted, its hardly a school that rich white people can just dump their kids off at. The kids who attend BC have worked incredibly hard to be there, regardless of being rich or poor, black or white. </p>
<p>For those of you who want an opinion from a current BC student who has experienced two years of life at BC, than take mine for what its worth. The classes at BC are extremely engaging as well as challenging. The professors are for the more part very interesting and extremely helpful, although you will find your bad professors here and there as you will at any school in the nation. As far as social life goes, "getting as drunk and high as you can" as someone stated before is once again an ignorant opinion from someone who obviously knows nothing about the social life at BC. Of course people at BC drink and smoke, this is college after all and I'd say people drink and smoke at 99% of the colleges in America. You can chose to participate in these activities every weekend, or never touch either of them. There are a huge number of people at BC that don't drink or smoke. In fact, at freshman orientation we were told that only half of the student body chooses to drink on weekends. There is a ton of other stuff to do besides party and a great deal of people decide to pursue these options.</p>
<p>I felt I needed to write this because some of the so-called BC stereotypes simply must be dispelled. If you have any questions about anything at BC, including academics, social life, Boston, etc., feel free to send me a personal message or ask in this thread.</p>
<p>Can you tell me what people usually do in Boston?</p>