Harvard is up. MIT is up. Northeastern is up. UMass Amherst is up. Boston University is up. But at Boston College, the number of applications received for its incoming freshman class is down. And that’s just the way the school wants it.
BC saw its applications decline by 26 percent after it made a strategic effort to raise admissions requirements. The school added a supplementary essay to its application, university officials said, with a goal of attracting more serious students and deterring less interested ones from applying.
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Grossly over rated party school where jocks reign supreme.
Dear admissions, Just be honest and let applicants from Massachusetts know that they have almost no chance of getting in, no matter how great their supplemental essay is. That will cut down on applications. One reason that students apply to so many schools now is because colleges are so expensive. Students are fishing to see who might give them some money and the "more selective" schools have more money to give.
The smart ones are going to UMass.
The SMARTEST ones are going to community colleges . . . .
Serious students can get a very good education at almost any institution they attend.
Both BC and BU are not only OVERRATED but HIGHLY OVERPRICED and will leave graduates in virtual bankruptcy with limited jiob prospects in the current economy.
SMART students will attend a state university, graduate with a fraction of the debt, and major in a PRACTICAL career-focused field.
A friend of mine who attended a top-Ivy school took a semester off (to be closer to home for a personal issue) and got a sanctioned "okay" to take a semester at Boston College so she would not fall behind; all of the credits counted toward her degree. No one wanted to hear it when she returned to her Ivy school, but her classes at Boston College were more challenging and she had a better time. Absolutely no one believed her, or as I said, wanted to. Part of the reason was that the professors showed up and taught the classes. At many Ivy schools, the professors are celebrities who take time off and send teaching assistants to teach the classes. It's a major scam. You'd be very surprised at the quality of education at BU and BC. I have 3 friends, all of whom got into Wellesley, but were offered NO scholarship money; they all also happened to get into BU with FULL scholarships. Guess where they went? No regrets from any of them.
No, the smart ones know that BC is not worth that kind of money.
Typical BC arrogance.
When will the Globe just admit they love BC? Tufts has supplemental essays and surely some others do too. If any other school on that list had a drop in applicants the slant would never be a good one.
Here is the truth about BC that diminishes its appeal:
Expensive and little merit aid;
Top three programs are business, education and nursing. Hello 1961!
Academic lightweight for research;
Catholic boys club (I know oxymoron).
The Globe just loves to hate other schools,especially UMass.
I went to Harvard, then went on to Columbia, and got off at Ashmont
What a joke! BC spin masters at it again. If answering a single question puts a prospective student off, you have some serious issues. Get out of your parochial shell and get real!