<p>Is CGS worth going? Is it looked down upon by other students or colleges?</p>
<p>you shouldn’t care what other people think about you or what you do, as long as it makes you happy.</p>
<p>quite the generic answer yahoo1991. But I think CGS is the college for students who arent quite sure what they want to major in yet. I will be attending this fall so I dont know exactly what other students’ views are but from what I’ve heard, transferring is pretty easy. Please correct me if I’m wrong!</p>
<p>i am an incoming freshman at SMG and at orientation i could tell that CGS is kinda looked down upon. The general opinion was that CGS is for kids who don’t have good enough grades and sat scores to get accepted into bu’s other schools but whose family has enough money to pay the full $50,000.</p>
<p>Also i thought you couldn’t transfer until you completed two years at CGS.</p>
<p>I’d suggest looking up the many threads about CGS. Please. And look at the CGS website. </p>
<p>You might also want to look at the NYU equivalent - which was Directed Studies but changed name last year. My point is not to send you to NYU but to point out that these schools offer the same program - and they are among the very few who do.</p>
<p>Is CGS looked down on? By some, yes. Does it matter? Not really. You move into a BU college after 2 years and graduate from that college, just like at NYU. Are the admissions standards lower? Yes, that data is on the BU admissions site. </p>
<p>I’m a fan of CGS because it offers kids a route into BU. Others aren’t.</p>
<p>If you can afford it, CGS will give you the opportunity to attend a great 4 year school instead of 2 years at a community college - but it is definitely a different experience, as you are not declared as a major, and classes are assigned to you, you don’t choose them for yourself (other than 1 per semester). In my opinion, $50,000 is a lot to spend on this kind of experience, but for some it is very worthwhile.</p>
<p>CGS is different now…I think you can choose 2 classes a semester. And you don’t transfer. You can’t transfer before those 2 years are up. They call it “continuing.” You basically just have to have a 2.3 or better to get into most of the other colleges at BU after those 2 years.</p>
<p>it is generally looked down upon because they have a lower gpa or whatnot. some people refer to it as Crayons Glues and Scissors</p>
<p>And COM is college of optional math. Nicknames are silly.</p>
<p>smg is sex money greed lol.</p>
<p>LOL that nickname is so funny for CGS. I knew that CGS was bad but i didn’t know it had this bad of a rep at BU even when i was attending.</p>
<p>It doesn’t have that bad of a rep.</p>
<p>CGS IS looked down upon by some some students and if one’s not careful they might overhear a joke or two, but nothing seriously malicious. CFA gets it to a certain extent too, but I am a proud member of the College of False Aspirations (CFA)!</p>
<p>My question is, why would schools like BU and NYU even have colleges like CGS? What’s the point? It sounds like CGS just lowers the average academic profile of the students. Also, why should students who are not necessarily accepted into the “main” school be able to receive bachelor degrees in 4 years just like the rest of the students.</p>
<p>First and foremost BU and NYU probably have these programs because the make money for the universities. And the kids in these programs don’t lower the accepted stats at all. My son who was accepted into BU’s Arts and Sciences college was given acceptance into LSP at NYU. His stats were in the mid 50% range of scores for NYU’s acceptance rate. These programs exist because the universities know that maybe their stats are off just a little bit in some manner, but rather than deny them outright, they know that with a little structure they can be very good students and do fine when they matriculate into the colleges of their choices.</p>
<p>Check the stats for kids accepted into these colleges in previous CC boards and you will see that they are very good students.</p>
<p>correct. my best friend at school just graduated from CGS, and she absolutely raves about the program. she’s really close with her profs, she got to know students in her classes very well, and she was given excellent advising. not always the case for CAS.</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t look at any previous boards, but I read earlier on BU’s site that the average student accepted into CGS had about a 1750 sat, whereas a CAS student had a 1950 or something, correct me if im wrong. Now, I don’t like placing emphasis on Sat scores, or even high school grades, because I know people go through a lot of transformations in college. But it just doesn’t make sense to me why CGS students would be given an advantage. Again, no disrespect to any current or past CGS students, but it’s like they weren’t accepted into BU, and yet they receive the same opportunities, if not more, according to some other people, and graduate within the same amount of time.</p>
<p>Yeah, well that’s the way the program works. Like I said, look at the websites for BU and NYU and you’ll learn why the schools do this.</p>
<p>Not to offend anyone, but I think the reason why these students are accepted IS money related. Remember, in some way or another just about EVERY student is $200,000 in BU’s bank account. Some students just meet the mark a little bit better than others.</p>
<p>CGS started in the 1940’s when young men were coming back from war in order to make it an easier transition for them to get into college and earn a degree. and it did stick around, at least i believe, because of the huge profit BU makes from cgs students. however, i wouldn’t have cared if i started in cgs. u graduate with the same degree as everyone else. it’s like d.o. vs. m.d.: u start out in different schools but u both end up as doctors doing the same thing.</p>