Trying to compare Boston Colleges for DC

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besides MIT and Harvard - all Boston colleges are jacked up $$$

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just FYI, BC and Tufts do not have a similar vibe.

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We dis not like Tufts campus. Very meh school

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My kids concluded;
Northeastern > Boston C > Boston U > Tufts

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just FYI, BC and Tufts do not have a similar vibe.

Agree. BC is VERY different from BU, NEU, & Tufts.

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Anonymous wrote:BC doesn't work if you're not Catholic (we're not);
Tufts doesn't work if hour kid wants to be in the city (it's in the burbs on a hill - FWIW, my kid thought Tufts would be #1, but after visiting, didn't like the vibe);
BU doesn't have much of a campus (full city college);
NEU has the best of all - city campus (inbetween 2 T-stops), excellent Econ (my kid is an Econ major at NEU), but I'm not going to lie, this is our third kid, and their admin is a hot mess. Billing is a disaster, always late and always wrong, and housing is a joke (your kid doesn't find out whete they'll live until mid-July if you're lucky, but possibly as late as mid-August). Makes planning difficult

Why do you say BC doesn’t work if not Catholic? It’s my Jewish nephew’s first choice. Seems better than some Pro-Hamas campuses.

Your Jewish nephew might want to really think about it.

With 70% of the student body Catholic, it will be hard to relate if he doesn't share that experience. Obviously someone is going to say their Jewish friend, etc loves it and the students don't go to Mass, etc. But the reality is that they have been to Mass, went to a Catholic high School, want to raise their kids Catholic, etc. and it is a Catholic school regardless of the fact that it is a Jesuit Catholic school.

These are all unfounded assumptions.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

In our case, my kid was initially 'meh' about BU campus (she chose it for their programs), but she has grown to love it more as she lives there. It’s super easy to get around and enjoy the amenities nearby.

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NEU is a scam. Highly overrated and expensive.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Just FYI, BC and Tufts do not have a similar vibe.

Agree. BC is VERY different from BU, NEU, & Tufts.

Pp here. From the outside with an empty campus, it felt similar. We did not walk the entire campus and there were some students, not a lot since it is summer.

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BC has a better blend of gothic and modern architecture. I don't think it has the same vibe as Tufts, but it is similar in size.

Both Tufts and BC don't have "in the middle of the action" vibe that NEU and BU has. Plus, BU and NEU are larger. I also saw more international students walking around BU and NEU.

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Anonymous wrote:BC has a better blend of gothic and modern architecture. I don't think it has the same vibe as Tufts, but it is similar in size.

Both Tufts and BC don't have "in the middle of the action" vibe that NEU and BU has. Plus, BU and NEU are larger. I also saw more international students walking around BU and NEU.

To clarify, BC and Tufts have a similar land size for their main campuses. BC has about 50% more undergrads than Tufts.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU is a scam. Highly overrated and expensive.

That would be Tufts.

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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.

Areas resident here.

Actually they just extended the Green line to Tufts too.

BC is also only 7 miles from Govt center.

But driving from either location or taking the T easily can be an hour depending on traffic and MBTA issues. My son used the Tufts stop this year to commute to an internship in Boston and tons of delays.

In any case, both good schools.

Tufts housing has roaches (my son did a summer program there)

BC no roach reports I know of but yes, crucifixes in classrooms. And huge school spirit.

I’m advising my kid to apply to both. But he wants the west coast.

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Anonymous wrote:besides MIT and Harvard - all Boston colleges are jacked up $$$

Question wasn’t cost

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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.

Areas resident here.

Actually they just extended the Green line to Tufts too.

BC is also only 7 miles from Govt center.

But driving from either location or taking the T easily can be an hour depending on traffic and MBTA issues. My son used the Tufts stop this year to commute to an internship in Boston and tons of delays.

In any case, both good schools.

Tufts housing has roaches (my son did a summer program there)

BC no roach reports I know of but yes, crucifixes in classrooms. And huge school spirit.

I’m advising my kid to apply to both. But he wants the west coast.

All schools have roaches. Living in a dive is a rite of passage. If you deprive your kid of that, you will suffer the consequences.