Boston College — Attraction in Boston

Despite having met some extraordinary professors, B.C. gets only one star because of its incompetent and dishonest administration.

I wish Yelp would allow for only one star.

I was accepted into a doctoral program at B.C. and completed 45 postgraduate credits at great cost financially and personally...tolerating late afternoon traffic on route 128 deserves recognition in itself. My grades were all A or A- with a couple of B+ grades.

All was well....I was doing research for my dissertation and working full-time, when my parents were hit head-on by a trailer truck. The good news is that their horrible injuries healed and with time and physical therapy they resumed a normal life.

When I asked B.C.'s administration for a 1-year extension on my dissertation (at the time they allowed only 2 years), they refused. So I graduated with high honor with a C.A.E.S. (which requires only 30 credits, thus wasting 15 credits expensive in time, work, and money) and they named me to Phi Delta Kappa.

But no Ph.D.

It gets better.....

Two weeks before graduation, the dean's perfectly disgraceful secretary sent me a letter saying I could not graduate because I was never accepted!!

Fortunately, I had kept a copy of my acceptance letter and graduated.

When I wrote recently to inquire about an honorary doctorate for my lifetime career work I was ignored.

Just down the street there are better colleges and universities....B.U. and Northeastern are two much better choices....do not make the mistake I made in attending B.C. Remove review Charles D.

Charles D. Los Angeles, CA

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5.0 star rating 6/9/2016

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Great school that balances many different, competing needs. Straddles the border between Boston and Newton. Is the last stop on the BC T line so there's access to the city but also lots of green space. Top notch academics and athletics (well they try). Good scale and major resources but not so huge you get lost.

The addition of the former cardinal's residence and seminary across the street greatly enhances their space and presence in the city of Boston.

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Boston College has been a huge disappointment. Don't like the rankings fool you, this school is not worth your $70K a year. The only quality school with in Boston College is the business school, while the others lack any real merit. Being a student in both the school of arts & sciences, as well as the school of education, I have experience first hand how both of these schools lack proper faculty and class offerings. The advising system is horrible, I know too many people who have followed the advice of their advisors, who are meant to be trusted and be reliable sources of information, who have ended up in many class that do not count towards their major or graduation requirements. The class offerings are limited, even the elective offerings are great disappointments. I have many friends who are communications majors who's only elective offerings are courses related to gender. There are no offerings of classes that would be useful in the real world such as classes on public relations, advertising, event management, etc. In communication writing intensives students are to write a 25 page paper. In one class taught by Brett Ingram, he told the students he would only be reading the first 10 pages of their paper because he could not be bothered to read the entire thing. He should not be teaching a writing intensive if he can't be bothered to give his students the respect of reading the full paper. I wish I had positive things to say, but I hope future potential students read this and think twice before...

I'm in the process of looking for schools for my daughter in boston and thought it would be a good place to start ... at B.C. I attended one year 81-82. Late acceptance and could go if I lived off campus. I hadn't ridden a trolley before this year. But good news I was a very good soccer player and so that helped. I was also premed. I was all A student while being on the team accept for a D+ in the history of Japanese art. I couldn't get my head around the professor and his accent. Ok was my fault. The grade. Father Hanrahan was like the henchman for theJesuit. I don't really like Jesuit and don't know what makes them so different , but, I was reprimanded to his office and quite literally made to change my major because a medical school wouldn't accept me with D+. So I transfered to UCONN that had a far better soccer team. Where B.C. has failed in sports UCONN excelled. It wasn't all fluff like B.C. I believe the nursing and business school are good, but 40 years later we have computers and I'm not sure if they do. Moral here is B.C. has a societal status that they have been riding for many years, but I got a FAR BETTER education at UCONN. Thank you father Hanrahan . Ronald Zeffiro

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