Despite having met some extraordinary professors, ...

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.
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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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