BC vs Villanova

laplatinum
Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:23:06 +0000

My son was offered a full tuition remission from Fordham (sorry that I cannot speak about Villanova, but I want to make this point about BC), and less scholarship from BC, but in the end elected BC over everywhere else because of its amazing reputation, the core, the location (Boston is an unbelievable city and college town all wrapped up into one), and the amazing personal attention. He just returned to BC for the spring semester of his freshman year and these were his comments: “I really feel as if I have two homes now–Boston/BC and my home in California.” “I love the way everyone bends over backwards to help us.” He loves the core. He has made many very cool and interesting friends. Everyone highlights how “white” BC is, but my son, the blue-eyed Irish Catholic kid, has made best friends with a bunch of the 30% who bring a lot of diversity and world perspective to BC. He has not experienced in the least the “Jesuit arrogance” one individual mentioned above. He finds the academics challenging and rigorous; the professors extremely accessible and brilliant. All of this said, all of the Jesuit universities provide an excellent education, so you cannot go wrong anywhere, but all things considered, if you can Go BC, Go BC!