<p>I've been accepted to both, and need help deciding which one I'd rather attend! I would really appreciate any input from anyone.</p>
<p>I've been accepted to the CAS at BU, and the Rose Hill campus of Fordham.</p>
<p>Why BU? LOVE Boston, student body very diverse and I'm bound to run in to people I know (both at BU and in Boston)
Why not BU? TOO BIG--am concerned about TAs & Grad students teaching classes, and having a hard time making good friends quickly (no sense of community..?), TOO EXPENSIVE (it's ridiculous)</p>
<p>Why Fordham? Love the campus, still a great location (though Boston > Bronx, for sure), PERFECT size, reasonable price (they're giving me a few thousand $$)
Why not Fordham? Academics not as good? (technology/classrooms somewhat out of date?) Am concerned that the student body is a bit homogeneous (New York/New England Catholics... I live in CA, and have also lived overseas for much of my life)</p>
<p>No doubt the education you can get at Fordham is as good as you can get at BU...regardless of what nearly arbitrary rankings US News comes up with. The personal and focused Jesuit approach that pervades Fordham (even though priests are a tiny minority of the faculty) will ensure you come out with impressive reasoning skills and a full world view. The student body is probably almost as homogeneous at BU as at Fordham, just with a different religion dominating things. If you feel comfy in that Fordham neighborhood, go there. If it scares you, then go to BU. By the way, did you know Donald Trump went to Fordham for undergrad? His graduate years at Penn get all the ink, but he went to Fordham for his bachelor's.</p>
<p>Seems like you would be a better fit at BU - and I'm pretty sure professors teach almost all, if not all, of the undergraduate courses. You might have a TA for a discussion section but I don't think it's a problem</p>
<p>I've never had an issue with TAs/TFs teaching classes. The school's expectations of professors are rather clear--if the class if a basic 4 credit course (3 hours lecture, 1 hour discussion), then the professor teaches lecture and TA/TF handles discussion. I'm not the type that requires a lot of attention from professors, but I've only had a couple that were a little distant from the class and even those professors had no issues with giving students individual attention if required.</p>
<p>BU is, however, expensive--I'm not going to argue or defend that. Whether or not it is worth that expense depends on you.</p>
<p>BU with no aid is expensive. Maybe you should call, write, or email their financial aid office and see whether or not they can match Fordham's aid. If they did, would that make your decision easier? BU seems to give aid to pull people in- I bet that they will give it.</p>
<p>we loved the warmth and sense of community at Fordham. Happy, friendly kids. A very different feel from the independent- "you're on your on" vibe at BU.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the replies! I must have been in a daze or something when I wrote about Fordham's academics, because I was actually thinking that they might be better - more individualized, especially - than BU. If the reviews on studentsreview.com are at all accurate, Fordham seems quite impressive.</p>
<p>About the warmth, and happy, friendly people, though - I actually heard that there were a lot of snobby "CAPs" (Catholic American Princesses- according to someone I know whose sister goes there) so I guess that's why I was concerned about the homogeneous population. Any input on the student body at Fordham?</p>