<p>Thank you so much seafoodlover. I can't wait to see Scranton and my parents and are equally excited. I did hear about Rev. Joseph McShane doing a great job at Scranton and I hear it has a growing reputation. My parents think they all sound like good fits, and while they had never heard of U Scranton, there definetly open to the idea now and have done some serious background informaton. Thanks again seafoodlover, you've been a great help.</p>
<p>Well, so much for the presidents of leading U.S. Catholic universities being taken to the woodshed during the recent Papal visit to America.</p>
<p>Woodshed? What woodshed? LOL. And why should they? The Pope made a special visit with Avery Cardinal Dulles of Fordham while in New York. Cardinal Dulles is a prolific writer and a conservative Jesuit. He is also a convert to Catholicism and a RARE Jesuit in the College of Cardinals.</p>
<p>The Church is a big tent and not one single doctrinaire voice...or solo voce. There is room in the tent for liberals, moderates and conservatives. All of them have seats of prominence at many catholic colleges around the country. </p>
<p>Its what makes Universities so much fun and so interesting. Diversity of ideals and ideas.</p>
<p>To see how far Cathoic colleges have come in the world, all one needs to do is look at Georgetown.</p>
<p>Georgetown's alumni have penetrated the White House, the Supreme Court, the US Senate in a major way (5 current members),major foreign palaces (three current and one future Heads of State of major nations like Jordan, the Philippines and Spain), major top level secular universities (the Presidents of the University of Illinois , Texas A&M, MIT and Barnard) snd major cabinet departments of the world's only superpower (the current Secretary of Defense and the past CIA Director). It has about two dozen Rhodes Scholars. Georgetown is the only Catholic school to draw a significant Jewish population (about 15%) and the only one that is targeted by top students of all religious backgrounds. . It has the only graduate programs rated number one in the world by the relevant Journal (the School of Foreign Service's masters programs by Foreign Policy magazine). All Catholic colleges are now taken seriously in the secular world because of the success of Georgetown.</p>
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<p>You make it sound as if Georgetown's graduates are insidious rapists, and that Catholic universities have never been worthy of recognition, that Catholics and their schools are backwards. It's patronizing and condescending.</p>
<p>I have attended two different Jesuit universities, Xavier and SLU, and will be graduating in December from the latter. I read Catfishin’s post and had to reply. Unfortunately, as a non-catholic student, I did not feel like the curriculum was non-dogmatic. I took Theology(a required Christian course to get to higher level non-Christian courses) at Xavier, and rather than be a discussion of interpretation, the class was a read and repeat of the direct text from the bible. At SLU, the SLU 101 course, a mandatory 1-credit introductory course to the university, the curriculum teaches students about the Jesuit philosophy. This makes sense, except that the curriculum suggests that the university is greatly more tolerant than it is. Recently, at SLU, a black classmate in my year was threatened to be lynched by another student. Xavier has similar race tensions. On several occasions, Freshmen year, I was told I was going to hell for my religious beliefs. In addition, at SLU, campus ministry blocked a certain student group form forming. It was a non-traditional religious group. Sadly, for upcoming Freshmen looking for a tolerant environment, neither school lives up to the Jesuit philosophy. The academics have still been satisfyingly rigorous as Jesuit schools are known for. Good luck with your choices.</p>
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<p>Does anybody know about rockhurst’s partnership with slu for the pre medical scholars program? how tough it is to get into etc.?</p>
<p>I am a Scranton Grad. I had numerous choices and chose Scranton because of the almost guaranteed ability to be accepted to med school and the “family” feeling. Best decision of my life. After Scranton I went to top ten med school, top two internal med program and then top anesthesiology and critical care reisdency and fellowships as well as have been faculty as some of top Med Schools in the country. Most importantly, there is a feeling of fraternity when you meet another Jesuit educated individual that is unlike any other. This means that in effect, you not only have connections with classmates from your own individual school, but from all Jesuit Schools. Additionally, as soon as someone realized you have a Jesuit education, they immediately know that it was a quality education.</p>
<p>Scranton has been a top ten Northeast University in US News and World Report’s annual ranking for the past 20 years!</p>
<p>Steubenville is a good college, but its main focus is almost on orthodox catholicism, with an extraordinary number of charismatics. The school has only recently reintroduced athletics and the town of Steubenville is regrettably a dying steel mill town.</p>
<p>D is a freshman at Scranton. She has found a home there and loves it so far. We are very impressed with the Nursing program and science programs in general.</p>
<p>The Top 5 Jesuit Schools in the Country:
- Georgetown
- Boston College
- Fordham
- Holy Cross
- Marquett</p>
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<p>Georgetown: 90
Holy Cross: 95
Boston College: 89
Fordham: 84
Marquette: 78</p>
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