<p>Does anyone know?</p>
<p>BC is a little more selective than BU.</p>
<p>BC is alot more selective than BU. BC is a lot smaller also which means fewer spots.</p>
<p>^^Ditto, BC is a lot more selective. BU will offer merit money to attract kids with BC-competitive stats.</p>
<p>BC is significantly more selective than BU. BC and Tufts are roughly comparable in difficulty of admission, while BU and Northeastern are roughly comparable in difficulty of admission.</p>
<p>Harvard and MIT are heads above these schools as far as selectivity.</p>
<p>Harvard/MIT…BC/Tufts…NU/BU</p>
<p>All are good schools. Boston is an amazing place to go to school and BC is a great school. BC may be the only university to give you that “traditional” university experience in Boston, which is amazing when you consider how rare it is for private schools in big cities to offer competitive sports programs, beautiful campuses and great academics.</p>
<p>BC is a LOT more selective than BU. </p>
<p>BC only admits 30% of applicants.</p>
<p>BU admits 58%…huge difference.</p>
<p>I heard there’s a lot of drinking at BC so much so that people that at breakfast, there are people still hungover. Can anyone comment?</p>
<p>Do you have to do something special (app or special deadline) for BU merit scholarship?</p>
<p>^^ Well, historically it was the answer to Harvard for Boston’s upwardly mobile Irish Catholics. The Kennedy family’s ties to BC are at least as strong as its ties to Harvard.</p>
<p>I mean, not to feed any stereotypes here … but I’d be surprised if by breakfast there weren’t a few people who haven’t even hit hangover stage.</p>
<p>“BC may be the only university to give you that “traditional” university experience in Boston, which is amazing when you consider how rare it is for private schools in big cities to offer competitive sports programs, beautiful campuses and great academics.”</p>
<p>Also, as far as crime goes, BC is one of the safest “city” schools (and no, it’s NOT way out in the suburbs, as so many people claim).</p>
<p>Yea, BC is ‘only’ one hour away on the green line.</p>
<p>Lol, jk. I think it is in a great location.</p>
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<p>Agree with the fact BC is much more selective than BU. However, IME, Tufts and BC are not considered rough peers. </p>
<p>Tufts is harder to get into than BC and the former has more prestige and recognition among employers than BC. It doesn’t help that there’s some perception that BC has a party school atmosphere among some employers, guidance counselors, parents, and some academically minded applicants. It is one reason why my HS guidance counselor strongly discouraged an older classmate who had HYPSMC stats from applying to BC even though he was obsessed because of Eagles football. </p>
<p>Between Harvard/MIT and BU/NU, the ranking common with the guidance counselors, parents, and employers was Tufts…BC. </p>
<p>Also, I am curious about why Brandeis has been dropped from this discussion? When I was applying to colleges during the mid-'90s, Brandeis was considered to be academically equivalent or depending on some departments…more prestigious than BC. Has Brandeis dropped so far off the rankings that it’s not worth mentioning as a Boston area school anymore?</p>
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<p>Long ago perhaps, but for the last hundred years or so BC is just one of many colleges that the Kennedys send their kids to. The ties to Harvard are far stronger.</p>
<p>Certainly BC gave the family its start into higher education, since both of JFK’s grandfathers went there. But JFK himself, his father Joseph, his brothers Joe Jr., Robert, Teddy, his daughter Caroline, and his grand-daughter Rose all went to Harvard. </p>
<p>Among the last two generations, I believe Kerry Kennedy went to BC, and maybe one or two other cousins I’m not aware of. But mostly they are scattered among a lot of different colleges. None of the five Shriver kids went to BC for example. One went to grad school at Harvard. Georgetown can probably claim stronger Kennedy ties these days than BC can.</p>
<p>Maybe it is because Brandeis is kind of outside of Boston. It’s acceptance rate is the low 30s.</p>
<p>I thought BC and Tufts had similar acceptance rate? Low 20s?</p>
<p>You’re all probably right about BC being more selective than BU than I described, I went by how I perceived the competitiveness of the schools’ student bodies rather than how hard it is to gain admission. But the one of the reasons BU doesn’t seem as competitive as BC is because the stats from their College of General Studies pulls it down. In an older viewbook of theirs, the SAT score range for BU’s class of '11 was 1260-1410, making it similar to BC, while the range for CGS is 1130-1230. In addition, BC appeals to a more specific type of applicant so they can accept fewer and still get a high yield. So IMO, BC is more selective but both schools have a similar student body stats-wise when comparing BU’s CAS (which is where most people on CC apply) and BC. </p>
<p>But no way is BU about the same selectivity as NEU. That may have been the case a decade or so ago, but not any more.</p>
<p>Tufts is more selective than BC. For the class of 2014, Tufts had an acceptance rate of 24%. They had 15433 people apply and about 3700 were accepted:</p>
<p>[Profile</a> of the Class of 2014 - Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Tufts University](<a href=“Tufts University”>Tufts University)</p>
<p>For BC, their acceptance rate was 31% for the class of 2014. Interestingly, they had about 29,900 kids apply and about 9000 were accepted:</p>
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<p>Yet I always take acceptance rates with a grain of salt because they are distorted by the number of people applying. I.e., think of some schools that have 30000 kids who apply versus others that have 15000 kids. The number who apply distorts things. The solution is to standardize yet even that has problems. However, in this case, the almost double of applicants to BC still doesn’t make it more selective than Tufts.</p>
<p>But at the end of the day it doesn’t matter. Both BC, BU, whatever and etc. are good schools. i personally believe Tufts is better than BC yet that doesn’t mean BC isn’t a good school–it’s a great school and if you go there you should be proud to have a school that actually has a good sports team in Boston.</p>
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<p>Regarding Brandeis’ location, then one could say the same things about Tufts(Medford/Sommerville), BC(Newton), Harvard(Cambridge), and MIT(Cambridge) as they are all kinda outside Boston. </p>
<p>As for BC and Tufts having similar acceptance rates, that may be because BC IME tends to attract more applicants with a wider band of academic capabilities because of BC’s Sports Teams, renown within the Catholic community, Boston Metro area location, relatively respectable academics, and more…especially those with no chance of admission. Knew plenty of C and D average students along with straight-A types who applied just because they were obsessed with Eagles football or basketball teams…and they were not athletes. </p>
<p>Tufts applicants for the most part tends to fit the profile of those with numbers within the ballpark to have some chance at admission to Ivies or topflight SLACs. </p>
<p>Plus, admissions selectivity does not necessarily tell the whole story. Though Brandeis tends to have similar or now seemingly lower academic selectivity rating than BC, it seemed most employers, guidance counselors, parents, and academically serious high school classmates had more respect for Brandeis academically back when I was applying for colleges during the mid-'90s…and the vast majority of them were not Jewish.</p>
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<p>Tufts>Brandeis>BC.</p>
<p>BC is far more selective. Both are great schools though! (:</p>