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And some don’t want campuses emptied out by that same phenomenon. [/quote]
I agree. Students will have different preferences.

But there was a poster who was saying that wanting other universities in the area to have bigger social circles was unheard of. My argument has been that many students want other universities in an area to have a more dynamic and novel social opportunities. Different strokes.[/quote]

Yeah. It's called hypothetical in my mind fantasy rather than reality.

Kids don't go to BU or BC or Northeastern on the off chance they can hang out with Harvard students. [b]They may say Boston is a cool place with lots of college kids[/b] but what it means is more bars for them to go to, not meeting students from other colleges. And they really don't go out of the campus safety zone for the allure of "grown up" bars till junior, or more realistically, senior year. The one exception would be political years with students volunteering on various presidential campaigns because outside that there really aren't venues for students from various colleges to come together and meet each other, if they were so inclined.

If you're the same poster talking about 4-6k student body being too small and homogeneous, that's a sizable enough student body to have all the cliques from the jocks to the druggies.

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You flat out contradict your own point within the 2nd line of your post. [b]It means more bars, clubs, organizations outside of campus, networking, etc. etc.[/b] 
If you can't fathom the idea that Boston is an attractive place to attend school because it has 8+ universities, rather than a small college in Podunk, you are a moron with a very limited view of the world. It's why schools in urban, dynamic environments are getting more popular than cities in rural and suburban environments.[/quote]

If you want to start calling people names, by all means go ahead and do so with the knowledge that it's not going to win people to your cause.

Bolded above - you really think this happens? Going to BU so that you can network with MIT or Babson students in the bars? What clubs or organizations outside campus do you reasonably think attracts meaningful numbers of kids from a variety of colleges that allows them to develop meaningful friendships?

I do agree kids can be attracted to the notion of a buzz provided by a city with a large number of college kids but that does not translate into developing a broad social network of friends from other colleges that you prefer over a social life that revolves around your own college. The vast majority of students at the schools we're talking about on this thread will very much be focused on their own campuses. Any applicant thinking of going to a Boston school over a different school in the hopes of developing friendships with students from different colleges really has no idea what he or she is getting into.

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