<p>i nver had a chance to visit BU yet so i would really like to more about it…is BU like NYU? NYU is like blended in with the city so there is like no campus AT ALL… is BU like that? also how is the social life at BU? thank you so much in advance! :)</p>
<p>just like NYU, just smaller city</p>
<p>I don't really thing BU is that much like NYU. NYU is spread out circularly over a pretty big area. BU is spread out over 1 road basically. It's like a mile and a half of Comm. Ave. People always say there's "no campus" but I think there's plenty of grass to play frisbee on, and I would rather look over the Boston/Cambridge skyline than a huge grass field. I've visited my friends' colleges and found the real campus atmosphere to be isolating.</p>
<p>i've visited both NYU and BU. it seems to me like BU has more of a sense of community than NYU. NYU is more spread out than BU.</p>
<p>nyu's atmosphere is intense bc its in a huge city. bu's is more relaxed...but isn't nyu a little more prestigious? correct me if im wrong</p>
<p>We visited BU and were surprised by it. It is a long narrow strip sandwiched between 2 freeways with an L-line running through it and heavy traffic. We were there during a Red Sox game and the foot traffic plus agressive panhandlers (they actually demanded money) were concentrated in the area as Fenway Park is very close. What is called BU beach is a very small patch of grass near the freeway, looking over to Cambridge. Boston itself is a great city to visit albeit very dirty. We enjoyed Little Italy and all the historic sites. Worth a visit if you are thinking about going there.</p>
<p>how on earth is Boston dirty? where the heck do you live! have u ever been to any other major US city? i hope that was a typo and u were trying to refer to NYC LOL</p>
<p>definitely not like nyu, bu is just another safety school, not known for anything really, an okay school with the price tag of harvard.</p>
<p>youre just another safety student, not known for anything really, an okay student with the attitude of harvard.</p>
<p>If you have criticism of a school, you can at least form it into a coherent sentence that is actually helpful to potential students. Thanks.</p>
<p>BU's SMG, COM, and ENG are all like top 10 in the country. Stern and Tisch are great, but being in CAS at NYU isn't great.</p>
<p>^ I know BU has a highly ranked biomedical eng program but I'm sure the Engineering school overall is not in the top 10 in the country. School of Management is a good one but nowhere close to top 10 and I've never seen rankings for Communications. Not to say that the rankings are sooo important, but do you have any factual sources for your statement?</p>
<p>stern is insane...if i'm not imstake its like 63000 a YEAR! i was so shocked/discouraged lol</p>
<p>COM is very well respected. COM students win awards regularly in national competitions. I don't have figures, but if you check the BU website you can find the information.</p>
<p>Some kids that go on sites to put down other schools remind me of a high school "my schools better than yours" attitude. Living in Phila. and having spent long periods of time in SF, NYC, and Boston, not just driving through, I can tell you that Boston is by far a cleaner city. Perhaps on the day of a major league baseball game, rock concert, or marathon you'll have a different picture. One kids reach is another kids so called safety and all colleges are full of kids that chose a school that may be less competive than others that accepred them so reasons like fit, merit scholarships, honors programs, etc. are a factor. The Penn State Honors Program's stats are higher than Univ. of Penn plus harder to get into, for example, so again you can't get all caught up on ranking schools. I believe BU's Comm. program is in the top 10 but people need to know that some of these rankings are based on factors like no. of library books and endowment. Frankly prestigue means something to a very, very small number of people in the work world that are caught up on elitism and you may find that a superficial criteria for true success and happiness in life. If you walk into the BU Campus, off the main drag, such as the courtyard and cafe in the Student Village, and go into the new Rec Center and experience Newberry St and Boston Common you'll get a better feel of things. Unfortuntaly the spread out campus makes it such that the walking tour stays close to the Admissions Dept so visitors sometimes don't get to see the better and newer areas of campus. The river park area is full of kids playing frisbee and running on nice days and students can sail on the river. Like PITT and PENN, you miss the real campus if you stay on the "main drag" so get out and go into the campus when you visit, same as with NYU which is better if you get out and see more of it than the tour.</p>
<p>Whille BU does not have what you would call a traditional campus with quads and ivy covered buildings, there are a few nice areas along the long strip where the campus buildings are located. Baystate Road and Marsh Chapel and the area in front of the communications building are particulary nice. The new rec center and student village dorms are cool but they are a bit too far away from the center of campus (unless of course you live in one of the dorms). But what BU really needs is its own monorail system to shuttle students from one end of the campus to the other because the T is painfully slow. Waiting for it to come when the wind chill factor is -10 is no fun either. What I like about NYU is that although there is no real campus, the majority of the campus buidlings are clusterd around Washigton Square Park so getting to and from class is relatively easy.</p>