<p>Is the teaching method at CSOM involve primarily case method or seminar style teaching?
Are there a lot of team based projects in the curriculum?
After Finance and Accounting, what are some of the other departments that are strong/popular?
For the current CSOM students or those accepted for BC 2017, over what other schools are you choosing CSOM? Just trying to understand the cross admit for CSOM.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone for helping so much, very appreciated.</p>
<p>1) A bit of both
2) This depends on major, but in any instance team based projects are certainly utilized
3) Finance and accounting are certainly the top programs, but all of the other programs are good as well. If I had to pick a third it’d be our IS department with its TechTrek
4) Schools I seriously considered in conjunction with BC were UVA, William and Mary, University of Georgia, and Georgia Tech. Though I must say that my choice of schools (outside of UVA) is pretty abnormal when considering size and public-nature of these schools.</p>
<p>I’m only a freshmen in CSOM so I will tell you that there are a lot of team projects, but I’m not so sure about the overall teaching method yet. As for good schools that are turned down for CSOM the most common top schools are : USC, Cornell, Michigan (usually when not preferred admits at Ross), Georgetown (usually for CSOM honors), Emory, Virginia, Wake Forest, Cal, NYU Stern (very common with top students that want a college experience), Northwestern (CSOM honors), Notre Dame (for some), etc. </p>
<p>I came out of perhaps the top high school/prep school in America, Phillips Exeter Academy, and was really disappointed that I was going to go to Boston College, as I was one of the bottom students in my class. Most kids went to Ivy League schools, and very few went to BC. The ones that did go to BC were usually athletes, rich party kids with influential parents, long legacies with heavy donors, etc. So I based what BC kids were like off them and I didn’t think it was going to be that competitive of a school. Boy was I wrong! These kids were valedictorians, 4.3 GPA’s, 2250 SAT’s etc. Boston College has some VERY bright students. </p>
<p>I will say that there are two types of Boston College students. The majority of BC students are very bright kids, well rounded, and top of their class at high school, and kids who definitely had a shot of getting into Ivy League and other top 20 schools. Usually BC kids were the unlucky ones that just barely did not make the cut. This has given BC the name of Backup College, and while I must have to agree that this is true, I feel as if this is what makes the school so strong. Most of the students were kids that could of and should of gotten into top 20 schools but just barely missed the cut, resulting in a very smart student body.</p>
<p>The other type of BC student which is definitely a small minority, but a good size nonetheless, are kids whose dream school was Boston College. These are usually less competitive kids with major hooks such as whose parents and grandparents went to BC, whose family members were double eagles, and whose family are big donors. </p>
<p>All in all, BC is a very good school and it definitely competes with top schools for the same students.</p>
<p>trojaneagle, thank you for your response, very helpful and insightful.
trizz75, appreciate your input, very helpful.</p>
<p>getting a good feel about BC and CSOM.</p>
<p>I was admitted early action to BC CSOM this year and some schools I considered in addition to BC included: Northeastern, Boston University, NYU, Fordham University, Babson, and Bentley. Other schools were safe schools. Also, BC gave me a great financial aid package.</p>
<p>Are classes at BC - College of Arts and Sciences and CSOM curved? Is there a general grade deflation or inflation?</p>
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<p>That is not really a fair question. </p>
<p>Technically, most of BC’s courses run on a 90+ = A, even the premed sciences. But still, they ARE curved. </p>
<p>Heck, nearly all lower division college courses are curved, at all colleges, regardless of the grading scheme. If 90+ = A, all the Prof has to do is make the tests more difficult, so the test/point average comes out to a 75-80. Voila! De facto curve, even though officially one does not exist. (It’s all semantics.)</p>
<p>That being said, the question you should be asking is what is the mean GPA for the graduates. At Brown, for example, it is a 3.6. At the service academies, it is <3.0. Most private colleges are in the 3.3-3.4 category, so not much difference. Even then, one must be mindful of the programs/majors offered…colleges with a higher STEM population will have lower GPAs on average, than a college with large biz and comm programs (which award fewer low/bad grades than the sciences).</p>
<p>I’ve heard that BU is <3.3, but I haven’t validated that number.</p>
<p>Thanks bluebayou, so what is the average GPA at CSOM - by the end of junior year when students have to start looking for internships that hopefully lead to full time offers after graduation.</p>
<p>How is the recruiting for internships on campus?</p>
<p>CSOM has a loosely followed guideline of curving intro business classes to a B average.</p>
<p>Addressing one of OP’s initial questions:</p>
<p>I chose CSOM over Michigan LSA, USC Marshall, and Villanova.</p>
<p>Deloitte and PWC are the top 2 recruiters from our campus!
I would say that BC typically gives a good enough “stigma” for most accounting related
companies as my senior friends tell me.</p>
<p>^^The Big 4 Accounting firms also recruit heavily form directional state U. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for sharing, truly appreciative :-)</p>
<p>Few more questions:
<p>Sorry for asking so many questions!</p>
<p>1) Lecture hall size. My individual section was about ~80 kids and it was on the smaller side
2) I’m only a second semester freshmen but I have only had professor teach my classes. TAs run the discussion sections. The only classes that I know for sure that are taught by TAs is writing seminar.
3) Introductory level courses are pretty straightforward but get progressively harder as you take upper level classes. Class sizes for early level courses are large, 200+ for my section. Not sure about upper level.
4) Consulting is reportedly the most popular employment route post-graduation. The most prominent consulting firms that recruit on-campus are Big 4 consulting arms (especially Deloitte Consulting and PwC), Charles Rivers, LEK, Cornerstone, McGladrey, and FTI. The Big 3/MBB does not recruit on campus as far as I know, but strategy consulting opportunities seem to be quite abundant.
5) Info Systems can be done as a single concentration if desired, albeit it is usually paired with another major (most typically finance).</p>
<p>Thanks askjeeves, that really helps a lot. I did not know that all writing sections are taught by TAs.</p>
<p>@lovemom</p>
<p>Sorry I did not clarify. I meant to say that SOME sections are taught my TAs. I believe most writing sections are taught by profs.</p>
<p>Although S hasn’t yet decided on his top 3 choices - BC CSOM, Lehigh CBE, or Bucknell, he was also accepted at Richmond, U Miami, Bentley, JMU, Pitt, Clemson, U South Carolina. Waitlisted at Wake Forest. Denied UVA and UNC Chapel Hill early action. Looked at Babson, thought it was too small for his liking. Also looked at BU and Northeastern, didn’t care for the urban campus.</p>