Boston College - Does it matter if you're Catholic?

cptofthehouse
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 21:56:24 +0000

There are kids that don’t like the feel of a campus from the instant their car rolled onto the campus. When college is home for the next 4 years, that “feel” , reliable or not, plays a huge role in picking schools. Just the way it goes.

But there are other things that come into play even before checking out a school. I, for one, was hesitant about considering schools in some parts of the Deep South. We didn’t look at HBCUs. Yeshiva University was not on the list. My guys didn’t care for the colleges that had gone coed from being women’s schools historically. They had their biases as I had mine when I considered colleges for myself.

The question here is how important the issues that the OP has brought up are, with regard to BC. If OP’s daughter doesn’t like the vibe when she checks it out, that’s the end of it. Since BC fits what this student wants in a school, at this point with a major concern being the fact that it is Catholic, the discussion here is how much of an issue that might be. Should the school even be on the list?

In my neighborhood, even if BC were the perfect school by description, Jewish families would not even consider it. Not a one, in the 20 something years I’ve lived here. Not a single one. And BC’s stats show that, indeed, very few students there who identify as Jewish.

IMO, given what OP says are the concerns about BC, it’s still worth the visit and consideration. I know a lot of BC kids and though most of them identify as Catholic (and I know some who absolutely are not Catholic, as well), most of them are more agnostic in practice than of any religion. Which is the way it often is with kids that age. To me, the differences among an agnostic Protestant and an agnostic Catholic or any religion, for that matter are irrelevant. I get a bit more concerned about those who very religious because that is an issue that needs to be addressed if relationships get serious. I say “concerned”, but I don’t mean that In a dire way. It is important in a close relationship