<p>Jon, I have been reading this thread from its inception but now your recent change in logic and diction show that you are clearly just ■■■■■■■■. get a life. Oddsss, however, should be taken seriously</p>
<p>Bluebayou, I disagree with your 5:16am post. While I agree that it is challenging to find interesting internships in the current job market, some of the smaller LACs do a great job finding students internships in their field of study/interest. From personal experience of friends (and children of friends), Pomona and Claremont, for example.</p>
<p>Jon, thank everything holy that you aren’t going into law or philosophy, because your argumentation is by far one of the worst I have ever seen. PS: BC has a phenomenal philosophy program, but anyways let us continue.</p>
<p>You want “proof” (something you never gave yourself and hypocritically ask of others)? Take a look at Businessweek rankings… (which, in my opinion, are subpar but you used it in your one statement of fifty that you sourced, so I’m appealing to you at this point)</p>
<p>[Best</a> Undergraduate Business Schools 2011 - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Not even taking into account overall rankings (which BC clearly beats Babson), how many objective criteria does Babson have over BC? </p>
<p>PS: The answer is very few.</p>
<p>Point defeated.</p>
<p>londondad:</p>
<p>since I live really close to the backyards of the Claremonts, and know several of their faculty personally, we’ll just have to agree to disagree. They are great LACs, sure, but “hand-holding”? :)</p>
<p>I dont know whether Boston College is overrated or not, but I do think the school could definitely change a lot of factors…right now it is academically comparable to Villanova and Georgetown, and yet it isn’t nearly as strong in its catholic ways or in the social scene. My friend recently transferred from BC to Nova because she was socially alienated at BC. The parties were very cliquish like high school and everyone was a stuck up rich kid…she chose villanova because she knew it could do the same academically as BC did, but she wouldn’t graduate Nova with no friends like it was at BC.</p>
<p>Ehh, to be honest knight2011, I’ve heard the same things about Villanova and Georgetown. And from my personal experience at BC, (and I am critical of BC when I need to be), I just don’t see how someone could say everyone is cliquish and a stuck up rich kid. Maybe your friend was involved with the wrong crowd, because I actually can’t say that of anyone I know at BC. </p>
<p>The truth is you will find cliquish and stuck up rich kids at every school, whether it is Harvard or Penn State. Do they exist at BC? I’m sure they do. But I would never put the entire student body into that category based on what I have seen and experienced at BC.</p>
<p>NRG i didnt mean to offend anyone…I have heard stories of gtown and nova being very similar in the same social regards, I just felt like BC was more cliquish and socially narrow than other east coast catholic schools. I visited, gtown, nova, holy cross, and BC and just found BC to be the most like that of all of them. I think BC is not really overrated in terms of academics, but I do think their social scene is a hardship for a lot of students there.</p>
<p>In no way am I an expert, but take these rankings as you wish…</p>
<p>Academics
1)Georgetown
2)BC
3)Villanova</p>
<p>Social Scene
1)Villanova/BC
2)Georgetown</p>
<p>The reality is that all three are good school with relatively affluent student bodies. Georgetown is unquestionably more prestigious than BC, but they are also the most notoriously coccky and stuck-up student body overall. Much of the reason why stems from Georgetown’s ever-present yet ever-failing desire to be on the same level as the Ivy League. On the other hand, schools like the University of Chicago and Notre Dame (for the most part) settle with being second best to the Ivy League.</p>
<p>"Oddsss, however, should be taken seriously "</p>
<p>Thank you</p>