<p>I know students from BC say it is…but do other students/parents/alum view it as topnotch? just wondering.</p>
<p>bc is disproportionately hard to get into for what it is. when someone says they go to bc i think that the kid is smart and probably could have gotten into some place better (or didn't get into any place better). I don't know anyone who is wowed when they hear someone goes to bc.</p>
<p>that being said, its still a good school.</p>
<p>well i would have to agree with that in that many students at BC have gotten into "better" schools such as georgetown, uva, and even some of the ivys. I thinkk thereare several reasons why they choose BC over those other schools. i think its great location, being 20 minutes outside of Boston, while still having one of the most beautiful campuses is a reason. I also believe that the great D-1 sports draws a lot of attention, we ar e consistently ranked in the top 25 of almost every men's and women's sport we have. Finally i think that BC has great networking for after you graduate in that if you are looking for a job in Boston or NYC chances are someone who went to BC is in a position of power and one of the companies and will give u a job much more easily.</p>
<p>if the prestige doesnt match the selectivity then there are other things drawing people to BC as applicants have increased by 12% for CO 2010; bringing the total to about 26000 applicants for about 2500 seats.</p>
<p>well lampark, i think you misunderstood what i said. I don't think people are choosing bc over better schools.</p>
<p>the thing is, i don't think bc is a first choice school for the vast majority of its applicants. It does get a lot of applicants, i think largely due to its location and having early action. It is a good school, and by having early action, if you apply there early and get in, you probably are only going to apply to more selective schools - having bc as ur sure bet is nothing to sneeze about. That being said, you can see why it has only like a 30% yield. I wouldn't be surprised one bit if bc switch to early decision that you'd lose TONS of ea applicants to the reg. pool, and you'd probably see a drop in applicants (or atleast it wouldn't grow as quickly).</p>
<p>for bc admissions, i see it almost as a mix of nyu and tufts. nyu gets tons of applicants because its in new york. nyu isn't a wow school, but it gets a ton of applicants because of its location. tufts is basicly a reject school - but its rejects are from super selective schools - so its not getting poor students. double edged sword i guess.</p>
<p>jags ...if i understand what youre saying...youre saying that BC's relatively low acceptance rate doesnt qualify it as a good school? like some schools with the same selectivity are better?</p>
<p>this is pretty funny. yes, BC is prestigious. the carroll school of management (CSOM) is a great school that has been acclaimed by several. the law school at BC is also very good, as is the undergrad pre-law and pre-med curriculum. when you hear boston college, you automatically associate it with a good school. you wont find many people who dont know what boston college is, so in that sense its prestigious. all graduates of BC have found great success in their lives following graduation, and you can find these facts documented. compare these facts to other schools that are better than BC, and youd be amazed at how well BC compares to them. BC has a relatively low acceptance rate and had taken an astonishing 26,000 applications this year, im pretty sure that in itself qualifies it as a good school.</p>
<p>first - i never said it wasn't a good school. infact i believe i said - "its still a good school." and the 2 schools i compared it to are good schools too.</p>
<p>batman, thats pretty much exactly what i'm saying.</p>
<p>i don't believe the quality of a school is reflected soley on the % of students it accepts. bc gets away with having such a low % accepted simply because it gets a ton of applications - largely due to its location. a lot of people on this website associate % acceptance with the "goodness" or "eliteness" of a school.</p>
<p>for example, if you look at a school like the university of chicago - takes a higher % of students than bc (40% vs. about 30%). I don't think you'll find many people arguing that boston college offers a better education than chicago.</p>
<p>And take everything I say with a grain of salt. If you go to bc, you're going to a tier 1 school. considering there are like 3000 colleges, thats prestigious. but in terms of what a lot of people on this website think is prestigious - its not really.</p>
<p>To me, really prestigious schools are great schools that people want to go to. Think of it as tier 1 schools...who get like 50%+ of the people accepted. bc gets less than 30% of the people who they accept. Obviously the vast majority of the people who get accepted into bc choose to go elsewhere - meaning there are better options. There are only really a handful of schools like this tho - so there are other factors as well.</p>
<p>hmm..makes sense.</p>
<p>Well BC is ranked aroudn 40 so there are around 39 schools DEFINATLY better than it... lol jk</p>
<p>BC is one of the top schools in the country, and getting better. For some people BC is their Ideal school, for others its not. I was accepted to BC EA, at first i was like, ok wow i got into BC now i dont need safteys.. But then when I visited I realized that this is a place i could go to, althogh some aspects of BC really dont appeal to me, many others do. BC is prestigous, but so are another good 50 schools, you cant meausre prestige on a scale of 1-10, nor can you really say that this schools is a better school than that school. Its all up to the student, for one student BC is a perfect match, for others its not. Visit it, spend a night, speak to students, and decide if its prestigous for yourself.</p>
<p>let me just say that, that ^. was very very well put. i myself am practically in love with it. then again, there are many other student who could not even fathom going or even applying to bc. let me just say though, that compared to other schools bc may not known for being the "best", but it is certainly known for having an overall great undergrad program as a whole, a definite jack-of-all-trades.</p>
<p>P.S. When I was visiting BC it was mentioned that BC places an emphasis on its udergrads, rather than its grad students, unlike large state/private schools. This seem minute but its actually important.</p>
<p>as a student at BC, i definitely can vouch for what suubie is saying when he says that BC emphasizes a lot on undergrads. they focus a lot of what they do with us undergrads, which is why the undergrad program at BC has gotten a lot of acclaim over the years</p>