<p>why did you post that suubie?</p>
<p>To show that indeed there are people of all kinds at a jesiut college. futher strengthening my point that there should be a degree of diversity. I actually accidentally stumbled on it when I was looking at the Undergarduate student government of BC because it was somehting I'm interested in joining and that link was on the front page.</p>
<p>the problem with being idealistic is that it doesn't work in the real world...</p>
<p>Another question i have........... Are the people at Boston College elitists?.......or how bout Boston U?</p>
<p>It's hard to be a convincing elitist when you're in the shadow of Harvard and MIT, so don't sweat that.</p>
<p>BC and BU are not significantly different in academic quality, but they are complete opposites in a lot of ways, so your choice shouldn't be hard at all. I went to BC and friends at BU, so please allow me to clear up some of your questions once and for all.</p>
<p>BC is maybe 20-25 minutes from DOWNTOWN Boston by trolley, but there are lively urban neighborhoods of Boston that are 3, 5, 10 minutes away. BU is urban, but from most of its dorms it's still quite a ways by foot to downtown Boston (so you'd generally take a trolley/subway to downtown--the same one BC people take).</p>
<p>You could easily go 4 years without having a priest as a prof at BC. The religious aspects of BC are there if you want them. If you don't go looking for them, you'd barely notice them.</p>
<p>When I was a student, B.U. was said to stand for "Big and Ugly." You almost couldn't find a LESS attrative campus than BU's. Walk out of your dorm, and there are all the good and bad things about urban life--restaurants, stores, traffic, panhandlers, etc. BC has to be one of the prettier colleges in the country. Walk out of your dorm at BC and the birds are chirping and the trees are swaying, but there are no unique restaurants or stores right there. So if you gotta have a Starbucks across the street from your dorm, BU is your place. If you'd like even a trace of aesthetic invigoration while walking to class, BU is not your place.</p>
<p>Re the gay party that BC cancelled. If gays were having a party, it's not like BC would send in the campus cops to break it up. But it IS a Catholic college, so asking them to put their official stamp of approval on it seems to be asking a bit much.</p>
<p>Lots of photos of BC and BU at collegecircles.com. The BC photos actually look like BC. The BU photos do not look like BU. I'm surprised they managed to find an angle at BU that included a tree and did not include a McDonald's.</p>
<p>KG974,</p>
<p>between the two schools bc is my favorite. That is because I applied to bc and not bu and intend on going to bc next year.</p>
<p>here is why I love BC</p>
<p>-beautiful campus
-near boston
-school pride/spirit
-great academics
-nice students-(everyone was so friendly and genuine when I visited)
-great faculty
-great nightlife
-sense of community
-encouragement to do community service, especially alternative spring breaks </p>
<p>You said that you haven't visited either school. BU is also a great school, but I feel that it lacks a sense of community because it does not have a campus. It is located directly in the city, which gives you great access, but no feeling of closeness between you and your fellow students. Now this is just my opinion, but one of the most important things to me is the feeling of community at a college, which I feel is encouraged by an enclosed campus.</p>