<p>Just wondering, did all EA students receive four years of housing? It seems that way. </p>
<p>Also, are there any other scholarships offered besides the Presidential Scholars? My GPA is 5.75 and ACT 32. I was hoping for some scholarship money. </p>
<p>Is it wrong to call and ask about it?</p>
<p>No, the only merit scholarships are the Presidential ones, I’m bummed I missed out. </p>
<p>Honors is guaranteed 4, I think 3 is guaranteed for everyone.</p>
<p>i got 4 years and i was not notified of being in the honors program so yeah…whats the deal? i heard it was top 15% of applicants. is htis true</p>
<p>Dear tribegirl09 and ComeGraduation : Some of the guiding principles in the number of years of on-campus housing follow.</p>
<p>[1] Not all Early Action accepted students receive a guarantee of four years of housing. </p>
<p>[2] All Honors Program students do receive a guarantee of four years of on-campus housing. </p>
<p>[3] There are some regular decision accepted students that received four years of guaranteed on-campus housing without being in the Honors Program.</p>
<p>As for the Honors Program, the most active enrollment is associated with the College of Arts and Sciences. The link below provides the details.</p>
<p>[About</a> A&S Honors Program - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/about.html]About”>http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/about.html)</p>
<p>In summary, the general mark is about 1450 two-way SAT I scores and a top 5% rank from your high school graduating class. In total, approximately 140 CAS students are invited annually to join the program with approximately 100 completing the program by senior year. The volume of reading/writing can vary greatly by professor with the average reading assignment across the department being 100-200 pages per week and approximately 50 pages of written material per semester.</p>
<p>The program requirements are at the following link.</p>
<p>[Requirements</a> - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/requirements.html]Requirements”>http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/honors/requirements.html)</p>
<p>i’m also thinking the minorities were guaranteed four years of housing. i got four, my cuban friend got four, another hispanic got four and the other six people that got in from my school (who are white) all got three.</p>
<p>Not to disagree, but we have a daughter who was given 4 years housing with Early Action. She’s Caucasian. She is thrilled to have 4 years housing. Her other friend admitted EA from her school was also Caucasian, and only one is in the Honors Program. Neither is an athlete, neither has legacy, and one needs financial aid and the other doesn’t. I think the EA helps, but I am not certain.</p>
<p>There are a lot of rumors about who is guaranteed 3 or 4 years of housing, but I feel like it’s mostly random. Pres Scholars, nursing students, and maybe some others are guaranteed, but it seems like it is random for most people. I got 4 years and I don’t think I was in the top of the class. I don’t think you should read too much into it.</p>
<p>There are no other merit scholarships at BC other than Presidential, the financial aid is all based on need.</p>
<p>^^All students invited to Honors also receive 4 years of housing.</p>
<p>I did receive four years of housing, but no scholarship. I am in top 5%, but only submitted ACT (32) I think that converts to 1420 SAT. Did anyone receive a scholarship that only submitted ACT?</p>
<p>Well if you haven’t heard back yet then you probably didn’t get one. They were mailed out on the 17th.</p>
<p>Tribegirl09 and ComeGraduation:
Are you basing an application or acceptance decision on whether you have 4 years of housing or not? Living off campus during one’s junior year is viewed by many as a rite of passage - not to be missed. I suspect there are many entering freshman who start out happy having four years of housing or wish they did, only to want to live off campus with all their friends as juniors.</p>
<p>^^Strongly disagree with jpm. As a family that is on finaid from 3,000 miles away, off campus housing is definitely to be missed, if other opportunities present themselves. Heck, if living in the City was such a good thing, why do all the seniors move back their last year? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Students that receive 4 years of housing are:</p>
<p>Honors Students
Nursing Students
FULL Scholarship athletes
And then about the top 10% of students.</p>
<p>NOT ALL MINORITIES, ALL ATHLETES, LEGACIES ETC.</p>
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<p>Bluebayou:
I’d like to respectfully disagree. Our son at BC is living off campus this year and his housing and food costs are far less than what we paid his first two years for on-campus living. Based on our son’s experience and all the houses his friends have, it’s pretty clear they would be very unhappy if they had to trade their off campus experiences with living on campus. </p>
<p>Our daughter had similar experiences when she and her friends moved off campus in her junior year.</p>
<p>You are correct about BC’s seniors all moving back in their senior year. That has more to do with the attractive on-campus living arrangements BC guarantees for its seniors than it has to do with off campus experiences.</p>
<p>As parents who have seen how the off-campus experience is/was for our son/daughter, we feel fortunate that they were able to thrive and grow from the many real world learning’s that off-campus living uniquely provides.</p>
<p>I am sure that both you and I have equally small sample sizes (seen primarily through our child’s experiences). I agree that off-campus living junior year may not be everyone’s 1st choice, however I am convinced it is a highly cherished opportunity for many a BC junior - male and female.</p>
<p>jpm:</p>
<p>I have no doubt that living off campus is a cherished right of passage. As a parent, I’ll concur that my “fun” quotient declines when academics are concerned. Perhaps BC thinks the same since Honors students are guaranteed four years on-campus housing. :)</p>
<p>btw: even BC’s Office of Finaid doesn’t make that claim for a lower cost for living off campus. Well, actually they do make that claim but also freely admit that they are only counting 9 months of rent in their calculations; while in the same breath they note that it is extremely difficult to find local housing that is not on a 12-month lease. In other words, it can be less expensive if one ignores the additional three months of rent for an empty unit. And of course, that is rent for unfurnished space. Living on the other coast makes it rather difficult to transport misc. household items to stock a place. Sure, one can bum stuff from other roomies, but then that is not comparing apples-to-apples: landlord and cleaned (aka BC Res Life) furnished vs. free, borrowed…</p>
<p>Just something for those from far away to consider…</p>
<p>I can see both sides of this discussion. My son, who is a junior at BC, did get 4 years of guaranteed housing. However, several of his friends got only 3 years and had to move into off-campus apartments this year. My son and another friend with 4 years of housing were “recruited” to move into an apartment for one semester to fill the bedrooms vacated by students doing a semester abroad. All six students involved will move back to campus for senior year. And jpm is right – it has everything to do with the mods and the seniors’ social activities, and nothing to do with any dissatisfaction about off-campus living. </p>
<p>For our family, the apartment rent plus food costs is considerably cheaper than what we were paying for room & board in the dorm. It’s true that every apartment in the Boston area seems to require a 12 month lease, but the boys don’t seem to be having any problem finding students to sublet the apartment for the summer. They have already talked to several groups of students who are planning to stay in the Boston area (either to work/attend classes at BC or do internships in the City) over the summer. There are always people looking for short-term leases, and if you have a desirable unit (a large, well-maintained apartment in a good location), it seems to be relatively easy to find people interested in subletting.</p>
<p>We live in AZ, so I do understand bluebayou’s concern. We couldn’t transport any hand-me-down household items to help stock the apartment, but some of the other residents were able to do that. My son did contribute some new furnishings from Ikea and Target though; things that he would have needed to buy anyway when he graduates and sets up his own place next year. Quite frankly, it’s the same problem we had in furnishing his dorm room 2500 miles away; you just can’t fit bedding and towels in a suitcase!</p>
<p>Living off-campus seems to have had no effect on these boys’ GPAs, since all of them continued to make Deans List. I know that some students may be tempted to forget academics and focus on “fun” when living off-campus, but I really don’t see it as a problem for students who do take their academics seriously. I think BC uses 4 years of guaranteed housing simply as a recruiting tool; one would hope that Honors students are smart enough to keep up with their studies regardless of where they live! :)</p>
<p>my daughter now a senior was only guaranteed 3 years housing, she was a regular student but based on her perfect gpa in college was admitted into the honors program after her freshman year…still could not get 4 years housing…what she did do was study abroad her fall semester jr year and then live on campus spring semester swapping with her friend who was studying abroad spring semester…she had to jump thru hoops to get it okayed…as far as the desireable senior year housing…the quads are the desired housing ( and house like 10% of the class)and are awarded based on a lottery</p>
<p>i heard that 4 years housing was reserved for nursing students, honors students, and then the rest was 50/50 random</p>