<p>Par, I think you meant: Holy Cross>Princeton>Notre Dame>Rochester>U of Toledo>Dixie Community College>working as a men’s room attendant>Boston College</p>
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<p>The sciences improvement must have been very recent. While BC’s sciences were fine even as back in the early-mid-90s, BC was mainly regarded as a place for humanities/social science majors by most of my STEM-centered HS classmates. Many prospective hardcore STEM majors felt they’d be overshadowed by the humanities/social science majors at BC in ways similar to what a HS classmate experienced as an engineering major at Harvard. </p>
<p>That and the common perception among even our parents and HS GCs that BC was a party school meant that BC was not looked upon by them as highly as Notre Dame or URochester back then. While there is some truth to the party school bit from what I’ve heard and observed on the BC campus, URochester also had plenty of partying going on from what I’ve heard from a cousin and several HS classmates and colleagues who attended. </p>
<p>A reason why I said they were in a similar academic ballpark. Back then…every HS classmate who was deciding between those two schools, conventional wisdom was to choose BC for humanities/social sciences, URochester for STEM. Unfortunately, most HS classmates’ parents back then tended to not be as thrilled if their kid opted for BC due to the above-mentioned perceptions.</p>
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