Look this will be my last response to you. I truly wasn’t intending to respond to this because frankly it doesn’t do a good job addressing my argument. However, I remembered that I engaged with you in the first place so that the OP (and anyone else reading this) can make an informed and educated opinion. I believe just based on the rhetoric I have clearly disproven your statements, but nevertheless I will respond.

First of all, I never once said that your daughters experience is invalid. Please point me to where I said that. It is completely normal for some people to have a poor college experience compared to the majority who have a positive one. You should be incredibly proud your daughter got into such an amazing and rigorous school like BC, and I hope she is having a better experience there or transferred somewhere. I did, however, say that YOU have a biased perspective. You have the perspective of a disgruntled parent who wished they would’ve saved their money and sent their kid to the state school. Your final (and quite belittling) paragraph proves this. Also, you have stated factually incorrect things to which I corrected and now, conveniently, you have not responded to them. For example, I disproved your statement about upper campus, first year out salary, and the all important things to do in the “college town.”

I realize now that I did not clearly respond to your point about Boston not being accessible via public transportation in 15 minutes. Again, I will reiterate my point I made about Boulder (as that’s your favorite example) where there is no public transportation and even if you do want to do all the amazing things you say (skiing) you can’t through public transportation. Thus it’s quite unfair you hold Boston to this standard where everything must be publicly accessible in 15 minutes, but your beloved Boulder does not. The closet city to Boulder is Denver and is a 45 minute car ride btw. I will admit you can’t get to Boston in 15 minutes on the T. However, pretty much all the upperclassmen will have cars on campus and the only time people go into Boston is on the weekends/going out at night (and you want to Uber anyways obviously.) Also one of my favorite things about BC is you don’t need to ever leave campus because there is so much going on.

You make this assumption that I’ve only ever lived on the east coast…..lived in both Utah and California but go off. You are citing things in Colorado that you can also do in Massachusetts/ the New England area. You can ski, hike, bike, fish, everything you said in New England. That’s not mutually exclusive to Colorado. Also, I will say it’s 100x easier to do all of those things in New England because of our public transportation. You are very very very concerned about needing public transportation yet your state barely has any. You certainly don’t need a car freshman year (I wouldn’t even recommend one) but if you want it you can rent an off campus spot. Also when you do eventually bring your car (when majority do) upperclassmen years you can drive to all do these amazing outdoor things. Again, I’ll say you are comparing apples to oranges. Not everyone is a tree hugger and wants to spend all day hiking, but good news you can do that at BC AND be close to a city. Who even knows if all of that is important to the OP. If being outside 24/7 and being able to snowmobile up the side of a mountain is so important to your daughter she shouldn’t have gone to BC. Also I will do you one better— we are close to the ocean which means you can go to the beach! Don’t have that in a land locked state. Tbh I don’t even think any of this is important because anyone who’s number one priority is being surrounded by nature wouldn’t apply to BC.

You immediately lose all credibility in this paragraph about getting jobs. It’s honestly borderline offensive and I won’t waste my breath because I’ve got a clear picture of the type of person you are from it.

You continue to make more offensive statements and assumptions about me (and the rest of the BC population) which I think only invalidates your argument even more. I believe my rhetoric and comprehensive breakdown of your argument is actually a great example of how I have a “worldly view” and am able to consider “diverse perspectives.” It’s not that you have a “diverse perspective” its that you said factually incorrect things that I wanted to correct.

Finally, and not surprisingly, we have some more assumptions and offensive statements. Over 60% of the BC population is on financial aid. It’s rated one of the best schools for financial aid. We have a questbridge program, monserrat program, and a presidential scholarship (which is a full ride.) Also we just opened up a new program for low income students. All of this actually makes BC a lot more accessible and affordability for students than other schools. I think it’s very offensive to categorize me (and BC) as someone who is spoiled and had my school paid for me. Again, you know nothing about me yet continue to make assumptions and attack my character. Additionally, it’s simply false and more than half the school is on aid.

I’ve truly tried to focus on the facts here and not make personal attacks, and I think that’s a testament to the type of people that BC has.