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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Economics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Mostly the worst of times. Individual experience, however, is based on perspective. BC was my last choice. I attended college basically from the age of 8 being the youngest of 4 by many years. My siblings attended Yale, Princeton and Columbia. Compared to those schools, BC was an extension of high school. It was rather shocking. In my opinion, the professors fell short. Be careful if you have an opinion. You will be criticized. I never met a professor that I felt was willing to help me succeed in my college career. It was too large to be counted. I met people I thought were highly intelligent, though I have not kept in touch with one. I deeply miss and regret the lack of a challenging, intellectually stimulating undergraduate experince. Unless it is a school that you crave to attend, please, please BEWARE. Make sure you have your armor on. In my opinion, not worth the money -- not even close. Luckily, the 2 graduate schools I attended and earned degrees from, were fantastic and propelled my career, not BC. Starting Job: Director, Preparedness: D, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Feb 20 2010 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=65239&uid=564'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Finance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Ah Boston College. What can I say about you? Let's start at the beginning. Freshman year: if you're a guy, plan on either having a freshman party in your room or getting kicked out of any upperclassman party i.e. the Mods (senior housing). Girls, on the other hand, can pretty much get in anywhere, assuming you're halfway decent looking. And fortunately, most girls at BC are. Let's face it, if you come to BC and dont drink, you'll be a bit lost. But this is how it is at EVERY school, outside of BYU. Even though it is illegal, the kids still do it. And i'm sure if your parents knew how much alcohol gets comsumed per weekend they would pass out. Even getting written up with an alc violation is like a right of passage. I enjoyed my freshman year, but it didnt contain nearly as many big blowout parties that I thought would happen every night in college. The work was fairly easy overall Sophomore year: I promist, things get better. You're circle of friends grows. If youre in the 75% who gets to live on Lower Campus you're life has improved dramatically. Don't let anyone tell you different: if you get stuck living on College Road you're life will be just like senior year. Except that now you can actually get into parties in Walsh where you're friends live. The schoolwork actually starts to get hard during year 2. Not impossible, but you have to start putting in real work. At least I had to in the Carroll School of Management. A&S is pretty easy all the way through, depending on the major. Junior Year: Things get immeasurably better. Especially if you turn 21 early in the year. But even if you dont things are more fun. You can throw real parties in your off-campus residence. You know more people. Freshman girls look up to you. They travel in packs, so if you know one, hopefully they bring their 20 hot friends along to hang out too. The classes start to get much harder, at least in CSOM. You have to really put in the work and study to keep your grades up. And kids in the business school work really hard to get those great jobs on Wall Street, so you best keep that GPA above a 3.6 at least to get some good interviews. Internship hunting can be stressful. Everyone talks about it. The interviews themselves can be really tough. After all, you're paying 50k a year to go to this school, and unless you get a good job out of school it was totally pointless. You can go to a lesser school, drink everyday, and have a 4.0. We study business at BC to get a high flying job, end of story. All the good financial firms recruit here. Try and get a job with them, they're great places to start a career. To be blunt, if youre beginning job out of school doesn't pay at least 60k a year to start you wasted your money by paying for BC. Prepare to work for it, but if you work hard and do well in interviews, you can have a very nice job right out of school. Education Quality: A, Collaboration/Competitive: C+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Feb 19 2010 3rd Year Male -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=65199&uid=564'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save Communications  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I graduated from BC in May of 2009, and it was the best four years of my life> The friends I made were great, but the education I have received was the best part, and it came in so many ways. The people that feel BC doesn't offer diversity, must not have sought it out. I lived on the multicultural floor and attended the events of different cultural clubs on campus and felt truly welcome there. I am currently at graduate school at a state school in the south, and would give anything to be back at BC. BC treated me like a person, and they truly valued me, and wanted me to learn in every way possible. Of those that argue that a state education is just as good, how many have experienced it? Now I am just an itemized bill, that the school views as just another way to make money. I have experienced difficult trying to meet with professors, and they are unwilling to answer questions in class. Granted, in my time at BC I only had one professor I was not fond of, but he is far better than any professor I have had at my current school. Do not underestimate the value of this private education, the job market currently is not an indication of the value of your Boston College diploma, and I assure you it was worth every cent to me. Campus Aesthetics: A+, Social Life: B+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. 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