jpm50 appreciate the advice. Still feels like a raw deal. Pay 60G’s a year, you would think you would have a place to live.
@whr2go15
Having gone though this, my recommendation is to let this one go. Four years from now you’ll be chuckling at this concern you once had.
jpm50 thanks. Been reading on the housing lottery for soph year. Option to get screwed twice is very real it seems. Didn’t look into the housing situation very carefully and not liking what I see now.
@DevlinHall208 Will there be a second round of offers?
whr:
Sophs are low-person on the housing totem pole at pretty much every 4-year residential college. But odds really aren’t that bad as they appear, since it would require everyone of your D’s potential roommates to end up with a bad lottery number. (Highest number bids for the group.) It could happen, statistically, but it would be rare.
blue - yes but the odds of getting a forced triple were only 15%.
whr2go15 Just curious how long do you have to decide whether or not you will accept BC offer and you’ve gotten some pretty compelling arguments why you should overlook the housing issue. I know my d would accept BC regardless of the housing issue, but it seems like it is a make or break deal for your child.
My son just got off the waitlist the other day and could care less that he will most likely be tripled He is just thrilled to be going to BC! We are still in shock!!
Welcome to Chestnut Hill, momm719. BC is an awesome undergraduate experience.
Yes, welcome home!!!
I got in today!!! So excited to be part of the BC family!
bchopeful19 Fantastic!
Thank you blue bayou and collegecarla
massmoma early next week. Our D is “plus sized” so am concerned about the dynamics in a forced triple and where that could lead for the 2nd year
whr2go15:
Two things:
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2nd year housing is completely independent of first year housing. 2nd year housing plans are largely fueled by friends wanting to be together (and lotteries involved on whether larger groups of those friends do get to be together). Friends form from freshman roommates, dorm floors, or from the large number of available activities.
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Your concerns are understandable. Every freshman arrives with their own unique insecurities and every parent feels concerned.
But what is the ultimate goal? Is it to reinforce those insecurities by helping the child negotiate life to avoid certain situations? Or is it to stand back and watch - enabling the child to grow and learn to stand strong on his/her own.
whr2go15: For a while I thought your concerns about the rooming situation were way overblown, but now I understand. You have mentioned “plus size” often, and there seems to be some genuine worries you portend unique to your situation, something many of us haven’t experienced. You are a caring and wonderful mother. We cannot help you with your housing issue but if you were to contact admissions and/or residential life and thoroughly explain your concerns, they can address them. I must mention that during orientation (an incredible experience for students and parents alike), BC hires a comedian who gives a performance for parents about how hard the transitioning process is- it is heart warming, instructive, and really hits home. There are numerous advisory panels and staff during this orientation to address these kinds of issues. I am saying this because BC goes out of its way to help during this phase of the college first year experience. For these reasons, I suggest that you take your worries to admissions, who can advise you accordingly.
Yesterday at 8:50 pm
I got in today!!! So excited to be part of the BC family!
@Devinlin Hall can you confirm on 5/13/15 you stated all emails were sent out for the first round and there would be no further offers at this time.
Today at 2:36 pm
Yesterday at 8:50 pm
I got in today!!! So excited to be part of the BC family!
@DevlinHall208: Can you confirm this on 5/13/15 you stated all emails were sent out for the first round and there would be no further offers at this time.
@Massmom2015, go to the admission page on the BC website, and at the bottom click on twitter. Admissions tweeted out yesterday info about the W/L. Good luck, we are rooting for you!
Dear collegecarla : As you know, I went through the orientation twice, once in 2007 and again in 2009. Both experiences were equally wonderful. There were two presentations during those three day cycles that were so very impressive, they stay with me today.
The first key learning was the three things that make a truly great university. It was that lecture by Michael J. Himes that has framed many of my responses here on College Confidential encouraging applicants to seriously think about how they would make Boston College better … becoming an “interesting conversation partner”, so to speak.
The second key learning does in fact come from the parents lecture you have mentioned about “letting go”. I will always remember what the “opposite of love” is.
Thanks for recalling some wonderful BC memories. To those getting the chance to join the Eagle family, orientation, believe it or not, is an event NOT to be missed for the whole family.