Boston College or Lehigh?

TourGuide446
Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:21:40 +0000

Their academic differences are minimal. Their architecture is similar. Their students are probably quite similar (fairly well off, mostly East coast, white, tending toward jocks). BC has 9000 undergrads, but it’s compact and feels like a small school (I went there).

The HUGE differences between these two schools are:

BC has NO frats or sororities, while Lehigh’s social life is dominated by them. Frats would seem to be a feature you either love or hate. Social life at frat-dominated schools is very different from no-frat schools. You gotta REALLY enjoy the comraderie of people of the same sex to enjoy a frat/sorority school.

BC is 48% male, and the females have a rep for being very beautiful. Lehigh is 58% male, and the females don’t have a rep for being beautiful.

BC is often called “suburban” but the main campus overlaps the line between the city of Boston and the city of Newton (there is no city of Chestnut Hill…it’s a neighborhood and a post office address). So while the BC campus is in a very quiet and safe neighborhood, it’s literally half IN Boston). So the advantages of the city of Boston couldn’t be any closer to BC than they are. Whereas Lehigh is quite a hike from just about any urban adventure.