Trying to compare Boston Colleges for DC

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Couldn't you just walk around after?

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Anonymous wrote:Recently traveled to Tufts with DS for a campus visit. Info session was great, but campus tour consisted of standing in front of a couple of buildings on the periphery of campus without much (if any) time spent on the main campus.
Impossible to assess if quads/green spaces existed or what academic buildings looked like. Strange. Maybe it was just our group, or perhaps they were hiding something...

I cannot believe their online tour (which I witnessed with DC in 2021) is the same strange vibe as their in person ones. It really threw us off how they were giving us information about random buildings that no one really needed to know about.

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Anonymous wrote:Recently traveled to Tufts with DS for a campus visit. Info session was great, but campus tour consisted of standing in front of a couple of buildings on the periphery of campus without much (if any) time spent on the main campus.
Impossible to assess if quads/green spaces existed or what academic buildings looked like. Strange. Maybe it was just our group, or perhaps they were hiding something...

I cannot believe their online tour (which I witnessed with DC in 2021) is the same strange vibe as their in person ones. It really threw us off how they were giving us information about random buildings that no one really needed to know about.

Perhaps it was Tufts' way of showing off its capital improvements.

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

BC is mostly in the suburbs and is farther to Government Center than Tufts. By the way, Tufts is only 6 miles to Gov't Center.

Yet so much harder to reach than it is from BC where the T comes all the way to campus.

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

BC is mostly in the suburbs and is farther to Government Center than Tufts. By the way, Tufts is only 6 miles to Gov't Center.

Yet so much harder to reach than it is from BC where the T comes all the way to campus.

The T opened a stop at Tufts recently.

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Anonymous wrote:Recently traveled to Tufts with DS for a campus visit. Info session was great, but campus tour consisted of standing in front of a couple of buildings on the periphery of campus without much (if any) time spent on the main campus.
Impossible to assess if quads/green spaces existed or what academic buildings looked like. Strange. Maybe it was just our group, or perhaps they were hiding something...

Really? I thought where you go for the info session was on the main quad?

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

BC is mostly in the suburbs and is farther to Government Center than Tufts. By the way, Tufts is only 6 miles to Gov't Center.

Yet so much harder to reach than it is from BC where the T comes all the way to campus.

Huh? The Green line added a Tufts stop.

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Anonymous wrote:Will visit BC, BU, Tufts, NE in the fall for my DC. Most likely will be an Econ/Math major. trying to get a sense for each place before visiting. DC thinks they want a school with a lot of school spirit and a fun and social energy but with kids who also take academics seriously. Would love thoughts from parents with kids at one of these.

While not on your list, Brandeis is right outside of Boston, and is located in a great suburb, Waltham. They have really cool events throughout the year. It is a smaller school, but if you are in the area, it is definitely worth it to drive through the campus.

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Anonymous wrote:Will visit BC, BU, Tufts, NE in the fall for my DC. Most likely will be an Econ/Math major. trying to get a sense for each place before visiting. DC thinks they want a school with a lot of school spirit and a fun and social energy but with kids who also take academics seriously. Would love thoughts from parents with kids at one of these.

If your child has the stats for BC, it is worth looking at MIT and Harvard while you are there. Those two are obviously more hail mary than 3rd and 25, but it is worth crossing Mass Ave to take a look.

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Anonymous wrote:Recently visited Tufts and BC, was much more impressed with the BC campus.

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

Capital improvements don't help the suburban location. Tufts is not in the city of Boston

BC is mostly in the suburbs and is farther to Government Center than Tufts. By the way, Tufts is only 6 miles to Gov't Center.

Yet so much harder to reach than it is from BC where the T comes all the way to campus.

50 minutes door to door from BC to Government Center T stop on green line

23 minutes door to door from Tufts to Government Center T stop on green line

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Just got back from a wonderful vacation visiting friends and family in New England.

We did many tours, my opinion:

Harvard was overrun with tourists, MIT was bland, but you could feel the geek in everyone. BU was weird. A Red Sox game was that day, so Kenmore Square didn't seem at all like a college square! The buildings were meh, I get where people say its campus is a bit disjointed. NEU seemed more like a campus. Impressive new buildings. Lots of international students. BC was a hot day, but was a nice mix of traditional and modern architecture. Didn't seem to be too many international students.

Obviously if DC gets into Harvard or MIT, the look of the campus won't mean a thing!

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Anonymous wrote:Will visit BC, BU, Tufts, NE in the fall for my DC. Most likely will be an Econ/Math major. trying to get a sense for each place before visiting. DC thinks they want a school with a lot of school spirit and a fun and social energy but with kids who also take academics seriously. Would love thoughts from parents with kids at one of these.

If your child has the stats for BC, it is worth looking at MIT and Harvard while you are there. Those two are obviously more hail mary than 3rd and 25, but it is worth crossing Mass Ave to take a look.

Agreed. For econ, you can't beat MIT. BC, NEU, BU, Tufts are talked about more because of size and better chance for admission, but don't give up on MIT. Even with gaudy stats, there are going to be rejections, so if aiming for econ in Boston, MIT should be on your tour list. You can do Harvard and MIT in the same day. MIT has a quirky school spirit, but it definitely is there!!

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We just got back from touring the Boston colleges. One thing that I noticed was that there were still many college-aged students there even though most schools don't start for a couple of weeks. We took a long walk up Commonwealth Ave and crossed the river to MIT and there must have been hundreds of college age students walking, biking and running. The BU campus was well laid out for what they had to work with.

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We also just got back from Boston. My kid is only a sophomore and we didn’t do official tours. We thought tufts and bc had a similar vibe. My son surprisingly liked BU the most. Northeastern was last and we did a drive by only.