<p>I am guessing that my son will be choosing between these schools. Which is better?</p>
<p>michigan and emory are above the other two with regards to academics. personally i'd take emory because michigan is frickin ginormous. But you really cant go wrong at either place.</p>
<p>Emory, USC, U Michigan, Boston U (best to worst in my opinion)</p>
<ol>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Michigan
=USC</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
</ol>
<p>Does location matter at all because these schools are pretty much the extremes of our country (southeast, southwest, northeast, north-central...). I was waiting for Washington or something haha...</p>
<p>well location wise I am sure he would want USC. lived in CA until high school. does not love snow. so emory next I'm guessing. Boston U offered merit $ of 1/2 tuition. That is hard to turn down. So I was hoping it was a good school. He applied to Stanford and Duke and he will go there if he got in. doubtful though. deferred ED at Duke and waitlisted at Wash U stl. So I'm just guessing he will be deciding between emory, usc, u of mich and boston u. and before today I would have said it would be between emory and usc. I didn't expect to be offered money since he didn't apply for anything.</p>
<p>Emory might be regarded as the best academically but honestly, a degree in all of these schools would be impressive. Visiting the school and getting the feel of it would best help him decide not what is the best school universally but what is best for HIM.</p>
<p>And if you have specific questions about Emory or BU, feel free to ask me. I was accepted to Emory ED and my sister is a sophmore at BU so I know quite a bit about both!</p>
<p>thanks daydream. you are right. best fit for him. i forget that --with all the stress this brings on. I don't know how you kids deal with this. Its crazy.</p>
<p>Does your son consider bigtime college sports to be an important part of the college experience? If so, you've clearly got Michigan and USC on one side and BU and Emory on the other. If he picks Emory or BU, will he wince every time he turns on the TV in the next 60 years and sees Michigan or USC sports teams? (I'm guessing he's at least a little interested in sports if he applied ED to Duke.) Sports obviously shouldn't be the main consideration, but these 4 schools have a lot in common, therefore you need to start looking for tiebreakers.</p>
<p>Hehe...ya, Boston University and Emory both have undefeated football teams! Errr...meaning that their football teams do not exist. BU has an EXCELLENT Hockey Team though and Emory has many active intramural sports (I believe something like 75% of students are on at least one intramural team).</p>
<p>It would help if we know which major(s) your son is interesting in.</p>
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Emory might be regarded as the best academically but honestly
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Based on what? Certainly not for business or engineering.</p>
<p>depends what he wants to study</p>
<p>Are you guys serious about Emory being academically better than Michigan? Because USNews has it ranked higher for undergrad?</p>
<p>USC = Michigan?</p>
<p>wow... people are seriously misled/misinformed here.</p>
<p>Michigan and Emory in the end will offer about the same in my opinion, Michigan with a slight edge. After this its a sizable drop to USC, unless he wants to live in SoCal after graduation in which case its just as good in that part of the country because of its connections to the area. The worst of these is BU by a significant margin, both academically and socially. It isn't close to the others.</p>
<p>There are so many points to consider besides academics. Where do you live? Does he want to be close to home? What is his intended major? What kind of extracurricular opportunities does the college offer? As somone else posted, does he want a big college sports scene? Does he want a traditional campus? What will each school cost, and are you willing to pay?</p>
<p>Has he toured these schools? Done an overnight, attended a class?
Lots of California kids attend schools in snow belts; my S is one of them. He's a freshman at BU and has the half-tuition scholarship. BU gets a lot of flak on CC. Because of its location, many Ivy applicants apply to BU as a safety. </p>
<p>I don't know about the other schools, but I can tell you my S's experience at BU. He is definitely challenged in his classes. He has taken two honors classes, one in his major. (Your S would be offered the honors program if he won the half-tuition scholarship) He's not a communications major, yet he's been able to intern on the radio station, and this semester has his own weekly show. He's meeting kids from all over the country and world, something he would not have done at UCLA.</p>
<p>I'd encourage your S to visit some of these schools in the next few weeks before making a decision.</p>
<p>I'd recommend Michigan. Big surprise eh?! LOL Seriously, I think it is the best of those schools. Emory would be second. But it really depends on intended major.</p>
<p>He does not have a clue what he wants to major in. He thinks Business only because his dad did. Math and Science are his thing --so maybe Pre Med. I think he had crossed off U of Michigan and Boston U off his list because of the weather. We have lived in Cleveland for four years and are originally from California and are sick of the long winters. I kind of figured he would end up at Emory, because his dad hates the area where USC is located. His first choice was Duke (ED), so I guess that is the kind of school he wanted to go to. midsize, warmer than here, suburban campus, good academics, sports.</p>
<p>For pre-med, I think Emory would probably be best. Michigan is known for grade deflation and Medical schools like high GPAs. For Business, Ross is the best of the schools your son is condering and USC is #2.</p>
<p>ross? is that michigan? would that be MBA program?</p>
<p>Yes, Ross is Michigan's Business school. They have both an undergraduate program and a MBA program. Both are highly regarded.</p>
<p>Can you tell me honestly what is 'not good' about a Boston University education, since it is at the bottom of everyone's choices who answered. I need some good reasons to turn down 1/2 tuition. We did visit there last Fall. My son didn't like that it was so busy (in a downtown area) with lots of traffic and the trolley, etc. But I didn't think the quality of the program sounded bad. I liked that you can really graduate in 4 years, unlike some others. And they had an extensive abroad program. But we went on a whirlwind tour of colleges and I really don't remember much else.</p>