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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 21, 2018 6:05:07 GMT -5
www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/710768.pageThis link is a thread in a forum for Washington DC Metro parents, (I discovered the forum by happenstance yesterday.) The thread title is 'Tell me about the College of the Holy Cross?" There were 39 posts starting in March, 1839 views as of this morning. Newest posts are on the last page of the thread. Fair to say, in the opinion of many posters, Worcester doesn't help. _______ Colgate admissions gets dinged. www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/753460.pageDS means Darling Son, DD Darling Daughter
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 21, 2018 6:24:17 GMT -5
Best post, by far: The poster was called out and corrected that BC is, in fact, a Jesuit school.  |
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 21, 2018 6:28:02 GMT -5
Well Phreek, since GateRaider seems not to be on here anymore to defend himself, I saw that while there were pages and pages of comments about Holy Cross, its great academics, student body and strong alumni network, there were but 4 posts for Colgate. Then I realized why . . . . . it is under Col agate. That extra "a" will put a damper on comments.  |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 21, 2018 8:21:55 GMT -5
Some of the back and forth jibing is amusing, but HC comes off very favorably.
I did note this post, from August, concerning a tour this summer.
The parent was disappointed that the son had crossed it off his list.
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Post by Ray on Sept 21, 2018 9:05:03 GMT -5
Seems like "worrying about the things you can control" would be an obvious response here.
HC and Worcester have been together for 175 years, with many more to come. What's the point?
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 21, 2018 15:02:22 GMT -5
Yale is in the hood. HC is in the hood. Albany is in the hood. A school is a school. You can avoid the mess if you want. If you like Boston, you could always take a train or bus from Worcester... otherwise, for me as a prospective student, it was a little bit of a drag but not enough to move the needle.
Conversely, I did not trust myself to go to a school like Miami, for example, and expect to maximize the academic side and minimize the beach/party/pool aspect. So the frigid winter temps, winds on the Worcester hills, and opposite-of-scantilly-clad-women kept me (somewhat) in check!
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Post by matunuck on Sept 21, 2018 15:15:15 GMT -5
Well, let's test the theory by changing leadership, marketing, and overall strategy in admissions -- and see what happens.
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Post by alum on Sept 21, 2018 15:27:28 GMT -5
Don’t get sucked into any message board where people talk about DS or DD. Those people make our worst threads look normal.
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Post by sader1970 on Sept 21, 2018 15:53:26 GMT -5
DL means Dear Leader (used only in North Korea) |
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 21, 2018 16:36:00 GMT -5
lol |
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Post by Wormtown Railers Fan on Sept 23, 2018 11:50:43 GMT -5
Yale is in the hood. HC is in the hood. Albany is in the hood. A school is a school. You can avoid the mess if you want. If you like Boston, you could always take a train or bus from Worcester... otherwise, for me as a prospective student, it was a little bit of a drag but not enough to move the needle. Conversely, I did not trust myself to go to a school like Miami, for example, and expect to maximize the academic side and minimize the beach/party/pool aspect. So the frigid winter temps, winds on the Worcester hills, and opposite-of-scantilly-clad-women kept me (somewhat) in check! If you think Holy Cross is in the hood then you must have never seen a real hood. |
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Post by Tom on Sept 23, 2018 19:54:39 GMT -5
Yale is in the hood. HC is in the hood. Albany is in the hood. A school is a school. You can avoid the mess if you want. If you like Boston, you could always take a train or bus from Worcester... otherwise, for me as a prospective student, it was a little bit of a drag but not enough to move the needle. Conversely, I did not trust myself to go to a school like Miami, for example, and expect to maximize the academic side and minimize the beach/party/pool aspect. So the frigid winter temps, winds on the Worcester hills, and opposite-of-scantilly-clad-women kept me (somewhat) in check! Yale is on the edge of a tough neighborhood. While I wouldn't wander far off the Clark campus late at night, Southbridge St is not in that league |
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Post by gks on Sept 23, 2018 20:56:12 GMT -5
Worcester has really bad sections, bad sections, nice sections and really nice sections just like every city in the US. Does NYC drag down NYU?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 23, 2018 21:13:51 GMT -5
What would you offer as the most appealing features/attractions of Worcester?
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Sept 23, 2018 23:09:00 GMT -5
D1 athletic events to go to nine months a year on the cheap and in some cases free.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Sept 24, 2018 11:50:59 GMT -5
Yale is in the hood. HC is in the hood. Albany is in the hood. A school is a school. You can avoid the mess if you want. If you like Boston, you could always take a train or bus from Worcester... otherwise, for me as a prospective student, it was a little bit of a drag but not enough to move the needle. Conversely, I did not trust myself to go to a school like Miami, for example, and expect to maximize the academic side and minimize the beach/party/pool aspect. So the frigid winter temps, winds on the Worcester hills, and opposite-of-scantilly-clad-women kept me (somewhat) in check! If you think Holy Cross is in the hood then you must have never seen a real hood. I've had friends that lived in projects so bad that the government shut them down and razed them, so I have an idea. Holy Cross specifically, within a quarter mile in any direction, is pretty safe. However, people were breaking into houses on Caro St. when I went there, and if you go farther than a quarter mile out, you can get into some really sketchy neighborhoods. Agreed on the later point that it's not unlike any other city with some really nice parts, some really awful parts, and some parts in-between. Like I said, nothing that kept me from going to HC and loving the experience. |
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Post by rgs318 on Sept 24, 2018 12:52:48 GMT -5
Worcester was a non-factor years ago when was picking a college and I went to HC. I found many places in te city I loved and a few to avoid. It was pretty much, as has been said, like any other city in that regard.
The one/only time an "environment" was a factor for me was when I avoided the Temple grad school in 1968. That may have changed a great deal since back then.
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Post by crusader12 on Sept 25, 2018 7:38:09 GMT -5
Yes.
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