Hello!!

Is anyone else attending the first session of the College of the Holy Cross fly-in? I'd love to make a gc!

Hi! As the title suggests, I am an international student studying the A-level curriculum. I have been interested in HC for a few years now and would absolutely love to attend. It is my no.1 choice after all, but I would require significant aid. My profile is on par with past admits, IMO; however, my grades took a hit last year and this year because my dad lost his job last year, and he is still unemployed. It has gotten to the point where we can't afford wifi or necessities. I know colleges aren't charities, and I certainly don't look at them that way, but I was wondering if all hope is lost esp because I require aid. I could wait for ED2 and bring my midterm grades up, but I am not sure how competitive ED2 is, and I dont wanna give off the impression that HC is my second option. I would also like to receive the results early so I can retire from the college app process.
Would it help if I use the additional info section to explain this? Or am I done for? Should I not have any expectations regarding getting in now? Any students with any info?

hello! im interested in applying to hc, and im interested in getting into dc consulting after graduation. can an education at holy cross set me up for a career in dc as a consultant? how is their career advising and internship opportunities and support?

Sheerly out of curiosity!
When I was a student pre-Covid, there were a lot of conservatives. I know Jesuits are typically left leaning, so I was surprised that this wasn’t reflected in the student body! Has anything changed? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Edit: I will add that a lot of my friends at the time were on my sports team, and we’ve lost touch because virtually all of them voted for Trump. It’s so sad to me that politics had to cause division in my class. Not sure if my experience is unique to me. Just wanted to share 🤷🏼‍♀️

What's family housing like at HC? Is it furnished?

Sharing some pics from my freshman dorm here because there was nothing detailed online when I was moving in last year. I lived on the first floor of Brooks (the biggest freshman dorm).

My room was a double.

Most Brooks rooms have these built in closet cabinets and an overhead light. Hanselman has white cabinets and some of the Clark rooms have them. Hanselman rooms don't have an overhead lights, I recommend getting a lamp. If your cabinet isn't built in they'll give you a standing dresser, unfortunately not pictured.

The built in cabinets have an overhead compartment that's really big. I've seen people climb in them before, it's decent storage space. The main closet interior is also pictured. There are 6 drawers, 5 pretty deep drawers and the top one is smaller.

The cabinets have built in mirrors and little built in lights with a few different settings. The mirror is kinda tall, I recommend getting a stool for your dorm for that and for accessing the upper cabinet space.

The desks have built-in lights and some of them have corkboard backs. They have 2 big drawers 2 shallow drawers.

In my room there was an unmovable shelf (picture 6) attached to the back wall. It's blocked by the desk in the first picture. This is in most of the freshman dorm rooms so you can't put your bed back there and rearrange where the desk is without blocking it.

Each room has a heat dial near the windowsill that works pretty well, although I never had to use it much because the dorms were always a good temp.

One extra detail- the walls and pretty soundproof but the doors are not at ALL. You can hear everyone walking by in the hall just through the doors. It's not so bad, just a heads up.

Hope this helps incoming freshmen!! :)

Hey I just wanted to see your insight into this especially if you are/were a student in this scenario.

Thank you so much!

Hello everyone! I’m a student at College of the Holy Cross and recently learned that dining services staff have been told to follow an “English-only” policy while working.

These are the same workers who keep everything running during rush hours, make our food, and help students every day. Many of them are multilingual, and this policy seems to limit how they can communicate even with each other. From what I understand, policies like this can be controversial and may only be allowed in specific situations (like safety or customer communication), not as a blanket rule. It feels unfair to restrict how people speak, especially when it doesn’t impact their ability to do their jobs.

I started a petition to ask the school to review or clarify this policy:
👉 https://c.org/4BdWpRdCwy

Please if you have the time please sign this petition form I’m posting here to ask:

• Is this normal at other colleges or workplaces?
• Has anyone seen something similar challenged or changed?

I’m trying to raise awareness respectfully and understand whether this is appropriate or not.

my math grade is down to a c- should i be worried of rescindence

I loved Holy Cross when we visited, but it was a quiet, rainy day when we toured, so it didn’t stand out to my son. What would you tell him is special about HC to convince him to come? The people, the professors, parties, study abroad, great recruiting and networking? He wants to commit to a similar but larger school across the country!!!

Should I apply to Holy Cross is the deadline is passed. Because I do not have a extraordinary background education background, trying to give all I have. Want to Apply as a Transfer student ,Degree in progress: BBA in Banking & Insurance (current GPA: 8.9)on a scale of 10

High school: little weak

Non-STEM background originally, now building some math skills as i am fond to it and found this is what I want to study.

Self studied Math courses: Calculus 1 and 2 and 3 little bit, Linear Algebra, Probability, and Statistics

Extracurriculars: Do not have much because in India these are not valued unlike in US, but I have worked with an NGO and involved with a club in college which sells sustainable products.

I want to be a math major at Holy Cross. Also want to apply as a transfer student. Is it worth a short for me because I have heard that Holy cross only takes high academically gifted or highly intelligent students, and also people with exceptional ECs. I do not have any of it. I want to apply as I think its a great fit for me as i like how they perceive education unlike in India it is very rigid also need aid as can't afford tuition. should I apply now or avoid it completely.

kindly help me with it.

Stuck between Tufts & HC. Full price for Tufts (87k), 30k off for HC (57k), but parents said price doesn’t matter. I plan on going for biology (pre-med) and there’s basically zero chance I switch from pre-med. Same distance from both. Some other options are Northeastern, BU, and Bates, but I really like Tufts and HC. Any advice on where to go?

Hello!

Title.

I recently got waitlisted from HC, but I would like to know what to expect in terms of dates for the waitlist to usually move (if ever) and how many people get off based on past years/your own experience?

Thank you so much and hope to see you all in the fall!!

I have not been able to get a hold of anyone in the Athletics Department. I can trade or pay.

As someone intending to transfer from Community college how competitive is the Columbia 3&2 program?

I used to get it in the science cafe all the time, any insight is appreciated. Thank you!

Does Holy Cross still have club sailing? it looks like they did at one time but we can't seem to find any information about whether it's still active. Thanks!

Hopefully a unique question. Holy Cross price tag obviously expensive, but aid is offered to some.

What do you think is an actual reasonable amount to pay (yearly or over four years) out of pocket (tuition, fees, room/board) for Holy Cross relative to other colleges(including state schools), job prospects, and graduate schools.

In other words what do you think the school’s sweet spot is for return on investment?

Hi all! Applying Ed2 here this cycle, and wondering how the ap and/or credit transfer policy is here, as it isnt really clear on the website.

Thank you!

does anyone have football jerseys for fans or anyone have a jalen coker football jersey that i can buy I will pay a premium

Are there parties, lots of clubs to join, intramural sports? Or is it just studying?

Holy Cross Computer Science grad and Software Developer here. I want anyone who either is already a CS Major at Holy Cross or is considering becoming one to understand one very important thing:

Computer Science != Software Engineering

Do not get caught up in the idea that a Computer Science degree is somehow equivalent to Software Engineering. You will not become a developer if you cannot write code, yes, and CS at Holy Cross is of course full of coding courses, however there is a fundamental difference between programming as an act and software engineering itself. I know Analysts that write code. I know Scientists that write code. The actual profession of software engineering is more than just writing code and demands a certain set of skills that no Computer Science program can prepare a student for by itself.

If you want to become a developer, you need to get used to things like Version Control (Git), databases, backend, frontend, frameworks, libraries, APIs, etc.

My advice to all of you is to have a GitHub you use regularly for personal and school projects, to have a portfolio site (which can be deployed on GitHub for free) that utilizes a frontend framework (like React), and to build projects on your own time that you can deploy fully and let prospective employers toy around with. Have that project (and your smaller projects) on your portfolio. Go into detail about the technologies used for those projects on your portfolio.

If you do not want to become a dev but still want a job that is technical and/or uses programming, the same advice follows, but won't be as necessary given certain roles are less concerned with programming as a skill but general technical knowledge and intuition.

I’m so happy I can’t believe it Anyone else?