Reply to BU and BC

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "BU and BC"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Boston College is better academically and ranked slightly higher (if you care about rankings). It’s harder to get into [/b]and has a better reputation overall. BC has more of a traditional campus  - beautiful architecture and grounds. BU is an urban campus. BC also has better athletics with football, basketball, hockey, and lacrosse drawing good crowds and school spirit. BU really only has hockey. Know many people who  did not get into BC and ended up at BU.[/quote]

Acceptance rates
2024
BU-10.7
BC-14.7
2023
BU-10.9
BC-15.5
2022
BU-14.0
BC-16.7

https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-admission-rates/
https://admissions.blog/boston-universitys-acceptance-rate-drops-to-10-7/#:~:text=BU's%20overall%20acceptance%20rate%20during,accepted%20roughly%2014%25%20of%20them.

[/quote]
BU is the slightly easier admit, punts some students to spring (following in NEU's footsteps a smitch) and even after that still having test scores just a tad under BC's, and has less of a self-selecting applicant pool. That said, they are fairly close for admission, and it's possible to get into one but not the other.[/quote]

Northeastern doesn't have Spring admit.[/quote]

N.U.in: is a Spring admit program.[/quote]

No it's not.  You start in the Fall.[/quote]
The NU.in students [i]are not on campus in Boston until spring[/i], thus their academic stats are not included:
[quote]Aoun also began using spring enrollment to his advantage. In 2007 the school introduced N.U.in, a program that invites students with lower grades and SAT scores to spend their first semester abroad and begin their on-campus experience in the spring. U.S. News does not collect data for spring entrants, so those students’ lower grades and scores are excluded from the rankings. Editor Brian Kelly explains that U.S. News doesn’t require spring data because the federal government doesn’t either, but he concedes, “It’s possible that is a gaming window.”[/quote]
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/[/quote]

Of course students are not 'on campus' when they are on study abroad. 
They are on campus of the study abroad college.

Things have changed a lot for the past 20 years.
It had 30-40% acceptance rate back then but now 5-6% and student caliber is T20 level.

When it's like that for Boston start, stats for NUIn is not significantly lower any more.  
It makes perfect sense for Northeastern with coop and various overseas programs.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics