BC Atmosphere/Vibe Question

djbridjmurh
Tue, 04 Sep 2018 06:17:54 +0000

I’ve toured some jesuit schools before such as Santa Clara and Georgetown and I really liked both of them. I toured Boston College in July and really liked its campus, scenery, and obviously its a fairly prestigious school academically, so I’m considering applying. However I’m a little concerned about its religious background. Unlike SC and GT, they made it very obvious on the tour that it was a religious institution. My tour guide was a theology major and talked about how he was proud that the school was Catholic, and how 70% of the student body was Catholic, and how you have to take a minimum of 2 semesters of a religious course. In every classroom we visited there was an ornament of Jesus on the cross on the wall, there were Biblical quotes on whiteboards in the hallways, and they also mentioned that Priests live in the dorms. I have no problem with Catholic people, however I don’t like the idea of religious material being integrated into every part of my college life, and I’d also like to be a part of a diverse community (religiously, ethnically, politically etc.). That being said, I’m wondering if any alumni or current BC students could elaborate on the campus environment and how religiously adherent/conservative it is, academically and socially.

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