<p>TInt, I approve of GW and Tufts highly. If you don't get into BU, you might want to cruise the board, going to the Parents Forum, and track down Soozievt. She's more long winded than I am but she's an alumni interviewer for Tufts and has quite a bit of insight. Also, AriesAthena (check on the Law School forum) is a recent Tufts grad now in her first year of law school...she and my D became friends (ultimately via CC) during the application process last year and she's a good egg, very sharp. </p>
<p>I used to live a few blocks from GW and it's changed very much for the better and is now a pretty competitive school and I think you can get a pretty good education there. My D didn't apply there but had considered it strongly before deciding to stick with Plan A and focus on the Northeast. (In contrast, she thought NYU was the pits and fled from it...just one student's idiosyncratic reactions.)</p>
<p>If you're <em>not</em> accepted to BU, you should not take it as an indication that you will be rejected by all other equally selective schools. No decision--nor even all decisions in aggregate--represent absolute ranked statements of your academic worth. I know there are people rejected from Berkeley who got into Harvard, etc. with many different pairings ad infinitum.</p>
<p>No no. The Dad and Ian, you have it all wrong. According to my dad, the white line is a centering device-- you place the center of your car over it whe you drive. And look out, Ian-- he is in NY!!</p>
<p>TheIntellectual - have you considered schools like Northeastern or Emerson in Boston? Both are urban schools. I haven't read all of your earlier posts but I also wouldn't discount schools that are slightly outside of Boston because most schools run shuttles into Boston daily and on weekends. Brandeis is one that comes to mind - it is in a suburban location but has a shuttle, BC, Tufts.....Northeastern is as urban as BU but has a different feel to it, depends what you are looking for in a school.</p>
<p>Anonymou5 - ED is not evil - but you make my point - you felt pressured to gain an advantage somewhere and you also wanted to relieve some emotional pressure. You choose SCEA and many choose rolling admissions programs or other early action programs, which makes me wonder how many students are applying EA to schools they don't really want to attend just to have something in their pocket. Not a judgment - my son did one EA too , although he would have been happy to go there. It just seems that the original idea of ED/EA has grown into something else and that it is one more stressor for students.</p>