<p>We’ve seen a lot of Jesuit affiliated schools in our college search process, did our on-line research as well (like everyone else), and we were never left with such an impression from the schools themselves - that the Jesuits considered themselves “academic elite” in a negative sense, as the previous poster hints.</p>
<p>Either the school was a good one, or not, based on other criterion of an academic nature all of us on this end considered and reviewed, and the Jesuit ideals and involvement at the school could be viewed as an additional positive (or negative) item, depending on one’s perspective, to the overall package of what a college offered to a student.</p>
<p>The fact that Jesuit schools simply list themselves as one of 28 educational institutions (in the Jesuit category) of higher learning didn’t leave us with such an idea that they were elitist or even arrogant in that regard.</p>