<p>^that’s ■■■■■■■■. who the hell would want to go to BC instead of harvard.</p>
<p>Everyone to him or herself, Noitaraperp. I find it very curious myself. If I had the option between BC and Harvard, I would have chosen Harvard for the connections I could carve out while being there.</p>
<p>But, you know, Harvard is not for everyone.</p>
<p>^ My friend chose BC over Harvard at the very last second. Why? It’s 7 (I believe) yr med program. She wants to go into medicine…and this was guaranteed + shorter.</p>
<p>oooohhh maybe it was BU. I don’t think BC has a med program (I could be wrong).</p>
<p>BC does have a pre-med program. In fact, its medical school acceptance rates run at almost 75%-80%.</p>
<p>No… i meant a 7 year medical program. Meaning, upon undergraduate acceptance, one also gains automatic acceptance to the medical school.</p>
<p>lol, sorry, meant BU.</p>
<p>Oh, you are right. That is at BU. BC doesn’t have a medical school.</p>
<p>taw317, did your daughter hear back from admissions? Also I am curious what sort of bad experience or impression she had of Harvard from Pre-frosh?</p>
<p>^ Yeah… I want to know what bad experience she had too. I’m pretty sure most of the Harvard prefrosh were Princeton/Yale cross-admits, who I found to be really great people (if a teensy bit pretentious at times).</p>
<p>bump… i’m assuming she was allowed back in?</p>
<p>As for BC vs Harvard, S’s girlfriend withdrew her application to Harvard once she was accepted to BC. It all depends upon your major. She wanted undergrad accounting which is something that Harvard would not have provided. As it is, she is beginning internship tomorrow at sought-after Boston accounting firm tomorrow. If her academic interests had been different, who knows!</p>
<p>^ That is an example of really silly thinking (although, obviously, things can come out fine regardless).</p>
<p>When I went to Yale, it had a grand total of three accounting courses: Into, Managerial, and Finance. They were housed in the Economics Department, and all taught by adjuncts. The Intro class was one of the most famously easy classes in the university – it was designed so that if you EITHER attended class or did the homework, you could not get less than a C, even if you failed the final (or failed to show up for it).</p>
<p>So . . . not a serious accounting program. What WAS serious was the recruiting by accounting firms of anyone who bothered to take any of them. The attitude (so stated explicitly) was, “We know you don’t really know any accounting. That’s not a problem. People who know accounting are a dime a dozen, and if you are smart enough to survive here you are smart enough to learn the accounting rules, too, when you have to.” Except for people with severe personality problems, no one with any interest in accounting had any trouble getting internships with top accounting firms (or, in my case, a major Wall St. bank).</p>
<p>JHS - Accounting firms don’t recruit at Harvard these days (except for their consulting arms). Students here have no interest in going into accounting though - consulting, investment banking, hedge funds, and private equity are the hot finance jobs.</p>
<p>I am disappointed that any students decision would be labeled “silly”. Even if recruiting were still strong these days, son’s girlfriend WANTED accounting courses and taking a token few would probably not been the academic experience she would have wanted. This girl is someone Harvard would have given seriously considered. Top scores, GPA, rank and very talented, hardworking and personable. Though I was shocked at the time that she withdrew her application, I was also proud of her for knowing what she wanted and therefore not wasting Harvard’s time or potentially taking someone else’s acceptance.</p>
<p>My point was Harvard is not for everyone, and thankfully so. Enough applicants are disappointed as it is.</p>
<p>In a similar vein, S did not even consider Harvard. His interests were in a BS in Computer Science in Engineering. He did apply to and got accepted to other Ivys who better fit that need. In the end, he also chose the non-Ivy route. He has also never looked back, had selective internships and post graduation job offers as early as last October. The job he chose has ties to MIT and will be looking to eventually earn his graduate degrees there.</p>
<p>Bumpage…the suspense is killing me. Is she going to H next year?</p>
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<p>Such venomous scorn… you need to hide it better.</p>
<p>I find your lack of faith disturbing.</p>
<p>Please tell us what happened?</p>
<p>We’re all curious :)</p>
<p>same here, the same day the acceptance letter came, my deposit would be sent out lol</p>