<p>The Irish suck go BC…(no bias…been a bc hockey/football fan my whole life haha)</p>
<p>haha I will admit Fordham’s football team is a little weak. </p>
<p>But, I still feel that it has gained significant prominence in the last few years - in 2008, Newsweek dubbed it “The Hottest Catholic College” in its “25 Hottest Schools” ranking. I think that says something about how it should fare in this debate.</p>
<p>School: Princeton Review Academic Rating
Georgetown 92
Holy Cross 98
BC 87
Fordham 79</p>
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<p>I’m obsessed with Georgetown but my brother goes to Holy Cross and although it is smaller and less known, it’s still SUCH a great school. Definitely should be way up there.</p>
<p>Georgetown is hands down the best school–I turned down ND honors for Georgetown. But everyone really needs to come off the whole SFS thing, it’s really no better than any of the other schools at Georgetown. And it’s being Catholic is really more of a technicality, so I’m not sure it should even be on this list–ND at least is a real Catholic school.</p>
<p>I often hesitate to consult the Princeton Review because it is based solely on student surveys. As such, the scores can fluctuate greatly from year to year.</p>
<p>Holy Cross has been rated 98 for three consecutive years. BC dropped from 88 to 87 from last year to this year. Georgetown’s was 92 last year and 92 this year. Fordham dropped from 82 to 79 from last year to this year.</p>
<p>Seems pretty consistent to me. </p>
<p>Holy Cross has the best pre-medical program</p>
<p>Acceptance Rates to Medical School:
Holy Cross 87%
Boston College 73%
Georgetown 66-76%</p>
<p>Georgetown has its own and the highest ranked Catholic run medical school. That has to make it target one, among the Catholic schools for Pre-med.</p>
<p>This talk about ND makes no sense, as already stated it is not Jesuit. If you are ranking the catholic colleges then I think tiers make more sense since some are so close that it really is just a matter of preference. I would put them like this for undergraduate programs:</p>
<p>Tier 1: Notre Dame, Georgetown
Tier 2: Holy Cross, Boston College, Villanova
Tier 3: Fordham, Providence, Creighton, Loyola-Maryland, Loyola-Chicago
Tier 4: Xavier, Dayton, Duquesne, Scranton, Gonzaga, St. Joseph’s, Fairfield, Seton Hall, St. John’s
Tier 5: Cabrini, LaSalle, Neuman, Miseriacordia, etc.</p>
<p>There are many I have not listed in the 4th and 5th tiers (more colleges as you go down)</p>
<p>My advice is to not go to any of them. You’ll end up surrounded by kids who enjoy their weekends by doing charity BS like feeding bums. Go somewhere more fun.</p>
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<p>Really… I note that many of my peers rarely do community service here at BC. A lot of them drink and have the typical fun that most college students do.</p>
<p>Yeah, but you are a lot more likely to run into those annoying do-gooders at catholic colleges. My sister went to a catholic college and she had friends on the weekend that would volunteer for habitat for humanity and feed bums and other crap like that.</p>
<p>If I had to rank them:</p>
<p>Tier 1:
Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College</p>
<p>Tier 2:
Holy Cross
Villanova
Fordham</p>
<p>Tier 3:
Marquette
Loyola (Chicago)
Saint Louis University
Creighton
Providence</p>
<p>Tier 4:
Dayton
Loyola (MD)
Xavier
Duquesne
Gonzaga
etc</p>
<p>how religious is georgetown??
all this talk of jesuit-ness and catholic-ness
is making it sound extremely religious. is it?</p>
<p>bump! bump!</p>
<p>FYI Notre Dame is not Jesuit!!</p>
<p>neither is villanova, but the thread had basically evolved into a Catholic school thread, as the vast majority of well-known Catholic schools are run by the Jesuits</p>
<p>Thickfreakness, I think your ranking tiers is very accurate. Except, maybe Scranton and Fairfield should be in either tier 3 or 4.</p>
<p>I concur with the aforementioned rankings, but for some areas such as business I believe that Villanova is in same league as G-Town, Nd, and BC. </p>
<p>P.S. Though Fordham isn’t ranked as high as the other schools, it has the intangible factor of being in NYC, where students get amazing internships and jobs.</p>
<p>In what universe is Holy Cross a better school than Fordham? I wouldn’t consider the two schools on the same tier.</p>