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

cptofthehouse
Thu, 04 Jul 2019 05:00:07 +0000

Hard to say how accurate the 70% figure is. There is a strong sentiment that it favors the applicant to be Catholic. As I said earlier, it does not, except in the cases of some feeder schools. In fact, I would say it’s a tip to not be Catholic because BC does want diversity and has a huge pool of Catholic applicants.

So there are applicants that may stretch any Catholic connection they might have, thinking that would be advantageous. Also, there are many agnostic Students with Catholic backgrounds.

As I stated earlier, my kids identify as Catholics even though they are non practicing. No current SOs are Catholic. It was not a criterion at all in terms of socializing and dating and having serious relationships. That’s the case for most Catholics I know. I feel absolutely no line of demarcation these days between most Catholics and Protestants. All Christians. And a lot of them are agnostic or atheists in varying degrees. There are religions that tend to be practiced more stringently more of the time where consorting with those outside of the faith is still problematic to families. I think that is the case for many of my Jewish neighbors. They would prefer to have their children in schools and other environments with far more Jewish peers than a school like BC has. It’s not just BC and Catholic schools that are issues. Wake Forest, for example, has come up as not having enough Jewish students. The same with the Christian schools.