General BC questions

worried_mom
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:42:29 +0000

I can answer a few of your questiosns.


Try searching the CC archives; there have been several postings on this issue in the past six months. Although BC is a Catholic institution, Jesuits are very liberal and non-Catholics do not seem to feel at all out of place at BC. The only mandatory religious aspect is the requirement to take a one-year theology course (which can be a class focusing on Judaism, Islam, and/or other traditions besides Catholicism.) No one is required to attend mass or chapel services.
BC and BU are only a few miles apart. They are both on the same T-line (Green Line - B), but that line runs on the street and stops nearly every other block so it takes about 20 minutes to travel between the two schools. BC’s mailing address is Chestnut Hill, but the Boston city line runs through the middle of the main campus, so part of the school is actually in the City of Boston.
I don’t know anything about the transfer process at BC, but you should search the CC archives about this topic too. I seem to recall some recent postings about transfers.
Boston College was founded in 1863 in Boston’s South End. It outgrew the site there and moved to the suburbs (Chestnut Hill) in 1913. It was incorporated as a university from the very beginning but it didn’t offer graduate courses (which makes a school a “university”) until the 1920’s. It just never bothered to change its name – probably since Boston University was already taken!