Notre dame vs bc vs gtown

SJUHawk
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:33:42 +0000

Leanid: From the Princeton Review. It is the lowest yield for the top 5 catholic colleges.

gadad: I think you are right. BC has a lot of other colleges that they are competing with but that is true of Georgetown too. I am not saying BC is bad - it is a good school - just a step down from the other two. Notre Dame has a high yield because a lot of their applicants grow up watching “Rudy” and watching Notre Dame football and is the dream school of most Irish Americans. Their number of applicants isn’t that impressive but it is a dream school of many. A lot of the east and west coast people that opt out of ND do so because of its location. I have a sister that wanted to go to Notre Dame her whole life and was accepted. She visited and decided that she didn’t like being that far away and she thought it might be boring so she opted for Georgetown (but didn’t particularly like it).

thenatural: More people choose St. Joe’s over BC than you think. We have a higher yield than BC. The schools are similar - both Jesuit schools on the outskirts of a large northeastern city with a major basketball following. BC is generally regarded as a step above St. Joe’s just as georgetown and ND are a step up from BC. St. Joe’s gives A LOT of merit aid that often entices students on a budget.

How about full disclosure thenatural. To those that don’t know, thenatural was rejected by all of the schools to which he applied except BC. The schools that rejected him were Georgetown, George Washington, Cornell, Penn, and University of Richmond. There is no shame in that since it is an ambitious list. But for those of you wondering why he is lashing out at St. Joe’s, he is simply deflecting his anger/disappointment.