I need some help with this decision. I have decided these are my top choices. I’m trying to figure out what is the best choice for me. Can anyone give me some insight?
Depends upon what you plan to study & whether or not there is a significant cost difference.
@Publisher no cost difference and I want to study Psychology and PreLaw
Have you visited both schools ?
Obviously you are considering two outstanding universities both regarding academics & social life, but I suspect that the campus cultures are quite different due to location & make up of the respective student bodies.
@Publisher yes I have visited both. I love them both and don’t want to make the wrong decision.
There is no wrong decision since there is little cost difference & both are superb schools.
Since you applied to Villanova & Notre Dame in addition to BC, I think that a Catholic/Jesuit school experience is attractive to you.
Since you are from Iowa, you should explore another area of the country. No better way to experience Boston & New England than as a college student.
That being said, you could attend WashUStL for undergraduate school & go to a Boston area school for graduate or law school.
But there is no wrong choice here.
P.S. I assume that you got waitlisted at Notre Dame ?
@Publisher Thank you for all the advice. I was deferred EA and denied regular decision. It was a hard one to swallow as Notre Dame was my favorite school.
One notable difference (at least to the best of my knowledge) is that BC freshmen are hosed together in a separate section of the campus.
Not sure about WashUStL housing pattern for freshmen. But overall housing at WashUStL I have read is very nice.
I think BC requires one year of off-campus living (junior year?). This was the case decades ago, things may have changed. WashU is gorgeous.
@madgemini4 I did receive guaranteed 4 years of housing.
Not all Frosh are housed on Newton Campus. About half live on main campus.
OP : Psychology is a large major at most colleges, and either would get you where you want to go. Law school admissions is ~95% about GPA+LSAT. Just earn A’s, and lots of 'em.
Two great choices. Boston is a great college town.
Definitely two great choices, and the deciding factors might boil down to small details. One hair-splitting consideration – is either location more or less convenient to your home town? Will the cost or logistics to travel to one location be much more expensive/time-consuming than the other and potentially limit how often you can go home for breaks?