<p>Is BC a major party school? Can you have a social life and not be a heavy-drinker?
Are hook-ups the mode?</p>
<p>1) BC does not come close to most other colleges, but there are plenty of parties in dorm rooms, off campus apartments, etc. </p>
<p>2) Yes you can have a social life without drinking. I personally don’t drink, but still have a great time at BC. I still attend parties and have fun without the alcohol.</p>
<p>3) Hook-ups are prevalent on campus, but there is a dating scene as well. You just have to find the right person ;)</p>
<p>thank you very much</p>
<p>Related to this subject, how strict is BC (and the police) about drinking/partying?</p>
<p>BC has policies about drinking, but relies on the RAs to enforce those policies. It all depends on your RAs and if they want to enforce those rules or not. BC has a 3 strike policy which results in housing probation (which really is a joke). BCPD just ensures orderly conduct and I don’t believe they write you up; they just direct it to your RD.</p>
<p>I remember a kid from earlier this semester who was arrested by Boston Police (not the campus police) for disorderly conduct after he got drunk and roamed out into suburbia. Beyond a fine issued by the municipal authorities, BC didn’t do anything. </p>
<p>I don’t think BC is that terribly strict about alcohol use on campus… even the professors and deans joke about the alcohol policies from time to time.</p>
<p>Party scene? Students often run to MIT for parties- that’s how much of a party school we are. And yes, you can have plenty of fun without having to binge drink. We’re in Boston.</p>
<p>Haha, wow I disagree with Zenbadabing. Yea, we go off to MIT for frats, but I would say the majority of partying is on campus. And as I’ve mentioned before, there is definitely a “work hard, play hard” mentality.</p>
<p>What about the BC student body? Is it really that preppy? Are the guys and girls good looking?</p>
<p>ok soooooo party schools which one has a better party life haha
SCAD
VCU
University of Delaware
Michigan State</p>
<p>sorry to invade your post haha ummmmm BC…well i know its a great college town and since its a bigger school im sure its a party school all colleges are. umm like anywhere if you hook up alot youll be sluty but if thats what you want go for it im not gonna judge hopw this helps</p>
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<p>I would classify Boston College as a “party school.” Walking to and from class on any given day, if you listen to your cohorts talking amongst themselves, you will hear topics such as alcohol, drunkenness, partying, and “hooking up” permeate their conversations. Granted, the partying is largely limited to Thursdays through Sundays, but it’s still a very fundamental aspect of life on campus.</p>
<p>You could have a social life without drinking; anything’s possible. You just have to prepare yourself to put up with others who are drinking, because they are everywhere. In other words, you don’t personally have to drink to have a semblance of a social life, but you will have to deal with those who do.</p>
<p>So far I have met a handful of students from BC
Guys: all typical “oversexed-bros” to use their own term
Girls: Mixture of helpful and viscious creatures</p>
<p>^ haha that’s funny… i really like BC but the student body really is a negative… (and so is that huge core)</p>
<p>Wait, I thought mostly everyone at BC is friendly. Are the girls really viscious sometimes? And have some immature guys and some mature?</p>
<p>BC has been my top school, but I guess the dream has just sunk alittle. =/</p>
<p>A handful of students out of an undergraduate student body of 9,060 is practically nothing. There are things I do not like about the school, but one thing I’m sick of hearing is how everyone is the “same”. There are so many different kinds of people here, and if you didn’t see them, then you didn’t look hard enough. That’s all I have to say.</p>
<p>Jersey: would you mind sharing what you don’t like about the school then?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>and HopefulEagle… BC has also always been my top! but this kind of stuff and the social stuff REALLY turns me off…</p>
<p>^ If this is the kind of case, one of my friends in my Health class in school got a campus visit at BC and he says it’s similar to Bayside High School in terms of student body (I go to that school and it’s a competitive public school in a suburban area).</p>
<p>Well, the main issue I have with the school is with the student body. However, it’s for different reasons. While BC has done a good job of diversifying itself over the years (I don’t understand why BC specifically gets this reputation for not being diverse when its just as or far more diverse than many other top, well-known schools…but that’s a different story), I feel like most of the students are a certain over-achiever type. Keep in mind this is just a personal thing, because most people would say this is a great quality. I just get sick of so many people being so over-achieving. Now, that’s not to say that there aren’t smart, talented people here, because there are. I like smart, talented people. But some people here have to just do EVERYTHING, and that’s probably the one thing that most bothers me. </p>
<p>BC does have a large amount of students that are very preppy and similar, which is the second thing that bothers me. THAT BEING SAID, this in no way means that the entire student population is like this (Which is why it bothers me when people put the entire student population into one stereotype. I’m not like this nor are a lot of my friends.) There are interesting, unique, and different people here.</p>
<p>You’re never going to find a school that is perfect in every way, so while there are negatives about this school, there are also tons of positives. People here are smart and do great things! (Take a look, for example, at the two senators of MA: Both BC grads). The location is really great! I read on an earlier thread that it seems so isolated or whatever. I’ve also heard people say it shouldn’t be called “Boston” College because it’s not in Boston. Most people probably don’t realize that Boston College straddles the Newton-Boston border, and the parts that are not in the City of Boston are literally right across the street. People seem to only think of downtown Boston as actual Boston, when in fact that’s not the case: that’s only where the wealthy people go to shop. BC has an amazing campus, and right as you start walking down Comm. Ave you being to realize that you’re in a city! The B “Boston College” line of the T is RIGHT at campus, and if you want a quicker way into the city jump on the BC Boston shuttle which takes you to a T station 5 minutes away that gets there quicker. Enough said about location. </p>
<p>The professors here are absolutely amazing. They are here because they want to teach undergraduates, even when most of the came from big research universities like Harvard, Yale, Cornell, etc. The majority are so approachable, an you don’t feel like you’re taking away from their research time. You really couldn’t ask for a better situation.</p>
<p>Honestly, there’s so much opportunity at this school. Sure, it has some negatives, but what school doesn’t? I guess the main point I want to reinforce is that THE ENTIRE STUDENT BODY IS NOT THE SAME. If you come here and are open, you WILL FIND the people that you want to find. Yes, you will run into the jocks, the girls that religiously wear skinny jeans tucked into Ugg boots with a North Face, and downright immature people. But there are so many more people here who bring something different. </p>
<p>And since this is the party school thread, I’ll quickly comment. This is no more of a party school than any other school I’ve been to. In fact, it’s less. In what I’ve seen and heard, it’s less of a party school than Brown, Columbia, MIT, BU, Northeastern, UPenn, Notre Dame, etc. It’s not hard to find people who don’t drink and go downtown to Boston or to Cambridge, but it’s also not hard to find people who want to party.</p>
<p>^ How socially mature are the girls who attend Graduate school compared to those with northfaces and Ugg boots at Undergraduate studies? What about the guys?</p>