@rancherjolly98 I received my acceptance letter in the mail today!
Actually screamed and cried tears of joy when I was accepted and was shocked when I opened the financial aid decision. So honored and excited to be accepted as a Presidential Scholar! Likely to attend in the fall. Congrats to everyone! I hope all your hard work paid off!
Hi friends. Congrats to everyone who received acceptance to Boston University!!! I received my acceptance letter to Boston University’s College of CGS January Boston-London Program today. I’m sOoOo happy and grateful for this opportunity!!!
But omg, I’m shivering just thinking how I’ll be able to pay for this school. I’m gonna be drowning in debt if I go to Boston University, considering I received a very small amount of aid. I FRICKING DESPISE THE EVER-RISING COLLEGE TUITION. But I’m still really hyped about getting into Boston University lol.
Son got offered a place at COE, but no merit award which was a big disappointment (as was no Kilichand, to be honest). 4.95 weighted GPA and ACT 34. Awesome kid IMHO, but too busy being normal to have cured cancer, solved world hunger, or had a successful IPO in High School.
5 years older brother went to BU CAS with Presidential Scholarship based upon 4.28 weighted GPA and ACT 31 - go figure why no money this time! We love BU, but no way we are paying full COA since we do not qualify for any FA - whatever our EFC figure, we just cannot do that. Luckily, he has a good merit award from Northeastern and prefers their course. Waiting to see what the Ivys and Tufts think.
Genuinely impressed with the rising reputation of both BU and NE this last 5 years. But not enough to pay full mid-60s COA. Feel like that could literally bankrupt us…
I got accepted to the COE 
1910 SAT 96.65 GPA, I wasn’t able to get a grant from the University since my financial profile was deemed incomplete, I couldn’t fill out the Non-Custodial Parent profile because I don’t have contact with my biological father. I am trying to straighten that out with BU right now, perhaps they can give me more money if they know I am physically incapable of completing the financial aid profile? $10 000 is a lot but still does not make BU affordable in the slightest, what 55k a year? No way.
Hello, does anyone know if BU School of Education is good?
@firebird1996 , if your son chooses to attend Northeastern , he will not be disappointed. My older daughter is a graduate ( younger one got denied 
) The opportunities and connections are fantastic. IMO, their Co op program puts it over the top
Is anyone appealing a their rejection or waitlist?
There are plenty of lower cost state schools. No one is forcing you to go to BU.
^^^ come on, Tom, that person is right. It’s ridiculous and really out of hand, even at the state school. When I went–in the late 80s/early 90s-- to a much higher ranked state school-- it cost 5K, total, for EVERYTHING. Any middle class family could afford that. Now it’s completely out of balance with inflation and todays costs of living. Did salaries multiply x 5 or x 6 over those years? No.
I looked it up:
2010 tuition/room/board/fees.: 50K
2015 same: 63K. *
That’s 13K increase in just 5 years. *Does not include books or transportation or miscellaneous.
(Hears bubbles popping??? ANYONE?)
Gosh. I just realized, by the time my D graduates, tuition/room&board/fees will be north of 70K. If trends continue, $75K.
So depressed now.
@redpoodles: at least a portion of the tuition, room and board increase is due to increased demands from students: BU built and maintains an extraordinary FitRec center, the entire campus had to be wifi’ed, dining halls have to serve a wide variety of food so that a student does not have to eat the same thing twice in one week, newer residence halls are luxury high rise apartments etc. There also seems to be a need for a vice president for every politically correct thing e.g. sustainability.
Most of today’s BU students would not have given the “no frills” BU of 1980 a second glance.
Still–
thanks lje62- wish your youngest best luck…thx for empathy- needs to be bit more it…wish I had somewhere to go other than appealing… which is appeal for typically a modest increment to enable family meet needs to attend (our other kid got 40k FA same parents, same income/assets… very strangebmethodology) to “choose to attend” implies a choice is there- but it is not a choice if your FA offer decides for you hey? No calculus needed for basic addition subtraction to total 65k As for implcation by some to an Entitlement mentality? “Nobody Is forcibg you to attend”- clearly they are not . the range of examples provided on the BU FA web led me to expect sone consistency in outconmes for admitted students - sure… its not a public college , it is a private non-profit, and aid is a privelege not a guarantee - transparency might be nice so Inwpuld have some means to explain this to my child…
@TomSrOfBoston Please simmer down. I never said anyone was “forcing me” to go to Boston University. As I mentioned before, I’m just afraid of paying for college tuition - Boston University or any other school. I totally agree with @redpoodles about inflation and cost of living but I also do agree with you that the increase of tuition is due to the increased demand of students and their living preferences.
got into BU and guaranteed $43,000 a year from the school… still a bit out of range, though. Hopefully I can find a way to make it work, this is my dream school!
How does the $43,000 break down?
Accepted Regular Decision. Between BU and Northeastern because I got rejected from all 7 Ivies that I applied to lmao.
ACT: 33 Composite (35 English, 30 Math, 32 Reading, 33 Science, best essay was a 9)
SAT Subject Tests: 670 Chemistry, 670 Math Level 2, 710 Bio E, 730 Math Level 1 (Weren’t required - didn’t submit)
GPA: 3.65 UW/ ~4.3 Weighted
Class Rank: 41/618 (Top 6%)
AP: Took 14-15 in high school. 5 on BC Calculus with a 5 AB subscore, 4 on AP Lang, 4 on AP Psych
Dual Enrollment: Calculus 3 on Tuesday and Thursday nights at the community college.
Extracurriculars: 2 sessions at Explo at Yale (look it up, it’s incredible), a physics camp at the University of Iowa (National Scholars Institute Study of Physics), National Honor Society 3 years straight, National English Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta, Beta Club, Interact Club, ROTC 9th and 10th grade with leadership positions (flight commander and flight sergeant), Treasurer for Psychology Club, went to the State level NASA Astronaut Challenge at Kennedy Space Center for 3 days to compete in an engineering challenge, lab challenge, and to perform a full pre-flight checklist, launch, orbit, de-orbit, and land the space shuttle in an official simulator, and JV Volleyball in 11th grade.
Volunteering: Orlando Science Center 104 hours, NHS, Interact, Beta, Mu Alpha Theta, ROTC
Awards: Principal’s Award for 4.0+ GPA weighted all 4 years, 4th place in Mu Alpha Theta Statistics Competition, Distinguished Unit, Outstanding Flight, and placed in local drill team in ROTC, nearly perfect attendance but that doesn’t really matter.
Job Experience: I tutor friends. I’ve applied to so many jobs.
Essay: I wrote it about Explo and the life changing experiences I had there. I guess it was good enough. I certainly put my heart into it.
Recommendations: Hopefully good. My teachers are fond of me in class, and my family friend who is a Commander in the Navy as well as a medical doctor wrote a solid recommendation for me.
Choosing between Carnegie, Boston University, and Northeastern University for chemistry (pre-med). Any input?