Carleton- “ice skating the year round” #:-S
“NYC and Fordham’s neighborhood really went downhill in the '70’s and '80’s, though.”
Big time. 1977 = The Bronx is burning.
BC and Fordham were primarily commuter schools until the 90s. And the college market was so much more local/regional back then.
Those two schools used to be chock full of very smart local Catholic kids who would never dream of applying to ND or Gtown (or Harvard or Stanford either). Even though they had the stats to get into those schools. The very smartest local kids in NYC back then would often attend Columbia as commuters.
Little known fact – our current president was a Fordham commuter for two years before transferring to Wharton/Penn. Don’t know if he raised or lowered the SAT average by attending Fordham.
Even Life’s fifth (and “lowest”) tier colleges seem to have maintained about average admission standards for that time.
BC was definitely not a commuter school during the 1980s.
You’re right. BC was some years ahead of Fordham.
BC was probably still majority “day hops” in the 70s, but had made a lot of the residential transition by the Flutie days of the mid-80s.
UT and such?