<p>As May 1st quickly approaches, I am feeling the pressure to decide on a school getting worse and worse. I have narrowed it down to two schools, Boston University and Tulane University. With financial aid, the schools are now comparable in price (Tulane being a little more expensive with the travel expenses from New York). My parents are leaning more towards BU but I am not as sure. My mom is worried about me being so far from home and the crime in New Orleans recently.</p>
<p>Any information regarding social life, ability to get a job after school/research opportunities (I want to go on to grad school also) or anything in general about either school would be very helpful! Thank you :)</p>
<p>I’m actually currently at Tulane and planning to probably transfer to BU in the fall since I was just admitted to COMM. For me, Tulane is lacking in the programs I’m interested in which is why I applied to transfer. I think the program you’re interested in should play a role in your decision. I also am in Tulane honors with a 20k scholarship which is the main reason I ended up here. I’m from new york too btw. I just feel that Tulane liberal arts is pretty unorganized over all and BU is better at helping with career services and special programs like study abroad. I think for me I needed a school with more creative programs than Tulane, but for all I know you’re looking to do business or engineering. Feel free to PM with questions.</p>
<p>I got into the honors program at tulane but plan on majoring in psychology and neuroscience. What are your thoughts on the honors program?</p>
<p>There’s not much to it besides the scholarship. You have to take a honors class per year and often it’s hard to find them actually within your major so if you go to Tulane definitely take them as part of your core. The honors classes are cool because they have more freedom to do what they want with the syllabus. You also write a honors thesis senior year. The honors program at Tulane does a good job at not creating a divide between student, I lived in Sharp last year and people rarely even knew I was in honors. However, besides being able to actually graduate with honors, it doesn’t give you much benefits while at Tulane. You’re definitely looking into popular programs at Tulane which is good since that’s my problem.</p>
<p>I know very little about Tulane…but as a current BU student, I think you should come to BU! </p>
<p>We have terrific research opportunities with programs like UROP (check it out: [UROP</a> Boston University](<a href=“http://www.bu.edu/urop/]UROP”>Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program)). Plus, in the psychology and neuroscience departments, you easily can research under professors if you reach out to them. For psych, you can find listings of projects and labs online with the faculty contact information (see: [Research</a> Labs Department of Psychology Boston University](<a href=“http://www.bu.edu/psych/research/]Research”>Research | Psychological & Brain Sciences)). As a psychology major, I get emails all of the time about research opportunities. Many of my friends plan to pursue graduate school for psychology and have worked in these roles. As for me, I’m going a different route so it isn’t something I really explored. I will be taking an experimental psychology course next year though since it’s required as part of the major. Neuroscience has additional lab components in class too. You’ll end up with a wealth of experience if that’s what you want to do. Just be proactive early on when you arrive to take advantage of all of these opportunities.</p>
<p>As for student life, I have had the best experience at BU. I’d say that most people make friends through their residence halls freshman/sophomore years and through activities. I would encourage you to sign-up for at least one club for something that you’re interested in doing. For me, my primary involvement has been through community service. I have met so many great friends with similar interests through all of my extracurricular activities. As an almost senior, I still have friends from my freshman year floor in Warren too. In fact, I met one of my best friends from BU on that floor. Once you get close with a few people, you meet friends-of-friends too. It just spirals into a little community within this big school. I think that’s why I love having all of the big school resources (500+ clubs, a trillion and one different types of housing) and forging those “small community” types of relationships. Oh, and we’re in Boston which is AMAZING. </p>
<p>So yeah, come here! It’s great!</p>