High school outcomes
Occupations Employers Awards Sports

Boston College High School

Massachusetts · 76 alumni prominent enough for Wikipedia. Tables below need at least 3 people before a trait can appear.

All of history equally The last decade or two Recent decades The last half-century

The era pills change the weighting: "recent decades" (the default) counts someone who graduated around 2010 far more than someone from 1940.

Prominent alumni

Dennis Lehane b. 1965Paul Guilfoyle b. 1949Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. b. 1955
George W. Casey, Jr. b. 1948Richard Cushing b. 1895Paul Benedict b. 1938
Erik Vendt b. 1981Jim Carey b. 1974Eric Turner b. 1977
Mike Sullivan b. 1968James Anthony Walsh b. 1867Ken Hackett b. 1947

Occupations

Most common

Occupation % of its alumni People
ice hockey player
21.8%
9
American football player
20.0%
10
baseball player
8.3%
6
politician
7.5%
7
Catholic priest
6.2%
15
screenwriter
6.1%
3
actor
5.8%
4
military officer
4.4%
5
novelist
3.9%
3
lawyer
3.7%
3
Catholic bishop
3.3%
7
television actor
3.0%
3
university professor
2.4%
4
journalist
2.0%
3
academic administrator
1.6%
6

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Occupation × the national ratePeople
Catholic priest 27.2× 15
Catholic bishop 21.6× 7
academic administrator 11.5× 6
ice hockey player 7.3× 9
military officer 4.0× 5
novelist 2.2× 3
teacher 1.9× 5

Employers

Most common

Employer % of its alumni People
Boston College
1.1%
4
Fordham University
0.4%
3

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this employer as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Employer × the national ratePeople
Boston College 92.1× 4
Fordham University 11.8× 3

Offices held

Most common

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this office as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Office × the national ratePeople
President of Boston College 452.8× 5
pastor 275.7× 3
titular bishop 33.6× 6
auxiliary bishop 28.3× 4
diocesan bishop 22.5× 3
member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 22.0× 5

Sports

Most common

Sport % of its alumni People
ice hockey
21.8%
9
American football
20.0%
10
baseball
8.3%
6

Most overrepresented

"3×" = this school's noted alumni are three times as likely to have this sport as noted high-school alumni nationally.
Sport × the national ratePeople
ice hockey 7.3× 9

Notes for the methodologically curious. Shares and multiples use recency weighting (people who came of age recently count more, per the era pills) and shrinkage: each school gets 20 virtual alumni at national rates, so a school with 4 noted alumni can't post a 200× multiple. High-school data on Wikidata is far sparser than college data — a missing trait usually means Wikipedia editors didn't record it, not that no alumnus has it.