help me choose: BC, Tufts, Penn, Northwestern

<p>Whereas BC students are Tufts-level school rejects. ;-)</p>

<p>So your argument is to go to BC because it has great athletics? Excellent, man! You did forget to mention that BC has the largest monastery in the Northeast; big selling point, too!</p>

<p>And I'll contest that Tufts is an Ivy-reject school. It's a top-Ivy reject school (HYP). But a good amount of people get into Ivies like Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, and pick to come here for different reasons.</p>

<p>And stop acting like BC is so Boston-accessible. The Green Line (a.k.a., an above-ground trolley that stops every 2 blocks) to BC takes FOREVER. The Red Line from Tufts (which services Harvard and MIT as well) is much more efficient; 5 stops into Park Street in 15 minutes.</p>

<p>Might look at Brandeis and Holy Cross-2 good Mass. schools.</p>

<p>Well, I realize how important a visit is, thats why i'm so confused about which to drop because I have seen none of their campuses; what if I decide not to apply and I regret it later? I may just have to apply to all 3 (BC, Tufts, Penn)... </p>

<p>hahaha no need to argue kofi...I have been in Boston before, and yes, the green-line sucks compared to the red... but either way you can get into the city rather quickly...</p>

<p>but don't knock the athletics part, it is amazing to sit in a packed stadium and cheer on a great team with students... college sports are SO much better than pro... I'll admit it, if I end up going to Tufts, I'm definetely going to be trying to get BC tickets, especially if a good team is comin to town...</p>

<p>wow i think I just convinced myself to pick tufts over BC....</p>

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<p>I just did a little cheer, haha. I just love this school. And it's funny how you're considering basically exactly the same schools I was four years ago... wow, I feel old. </p>

<p>Since you can't visit the campuses, you might want to ask student-life type questions in each school's specific CC forum.</p>

<p>Good luck, LightsOut, and let me know if you have any other questions!</p>

<p>haha thanks so much lolabelle, you know it also helps when people love their school so much.. in other words you and tufts. It makes it seem like that much better of a place to be.</p>

<p>and the fact that you were considering similar schools? that makes me trust you even more haha. i mean we've gotta be the slightest bit similar ourselves then, right?</p>

<p>^ ^ ^ Haha, probably. I also applied and go into Georgetown EA, back in the dark ages (2002!). I almost didn't apply anywhere else RD after that; thank God my dad made me because by April, I had totally changed my mind about my first-choice school!</p>

<p>Out of curiosity, did you get into Gtown SFS? That's where I got into. That's why I liked Tufts so much too because of its equally strong IR/poli sci departments.</p>

<p>no... I kinda wish I did, though now, because IR is starting to get more attractive. 2 months ago business seemed more appealing to me, so i'm in at MSB. obviously, I change my mind VERY easily, and that's another reason why I'm gonna apply some more places, I'll probably turn out like you by April, haha.</p>

<p>for business, you can't go wrong with Penn (Wharton), or Northwestern (Kellogg). I dunno if Kellogg is undergrad though</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure kellogg is grad...</p>

<p>and yea, I realize the whole Penn/Wharton thing, which is why I'm most likely applying there..</p>

<p>These four schools have it all--nice campuses near (or in) exciting cities.</p>

<p>Overall academics?
1. Penn & Northwestern
3. Tufts
4. BC</p>

<p>Sports:
1. BC
2. Northwestern
3. Penn
4. Tufts</p>

<p>For Int'l Relations:
1. Tufts
2. Penn
3. Northwestern
4. BC</p>

<p>Campus beauty/access:
1. Tufts
2. BC
3. Northwestern
4. Penn</p>

<p>I had to choose between Dartmouth, Penn, and Northwestern. Chose Northwestern and recommend it highly... Bring a warm jacket though. :) </p>

<p>Also, I'm from Boston, and yeah, Chicago winters are bitter... If you can't take 'em, I wouldn't go to NU.</p>

<p>I'd agree with everything JuJu said above except I think Tufts' overall academics are on par with Penn and Northwestern's. They each have their singular strengths (Penn's Wharton, Northwestern's Medill, Tufts' IR, etc.), but you'll get a great education at those three schools no matter what you study.</p>

<p>thanks for the fantastic breakdown JuJu. sorry to break it to you, but now Northwestern's definetely off my list, haha. I think I'm going with Penn and Tufts.... might thrown in BC if I change my mind tomorrow, they are all common app anyway...</p>

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<p>Northwestern's economics and chemistry are BOTH RANKED IN THE TOP 10. Same thing can't be said for most of your other choices. NU's UNDERGRAD College Fed Challange team also just won the 3rd consecutive national title. It's one thing to cross it out because of "fit, it's quite another to do so based on false information.</p>

<p>^ ^ ^ Sam Lee, I told the OP that she was mistaken in believing Northwestern is below those other schools. That discussion was also supplemented by your peer NU student, JuJu. Read all the posts in the thread before posting. If you read through, you'll see that it seems that the main reason the OP doesn't want to apply to NU is because of the Chicago weather.</p>

<p>BC and Tufts are great places, but I personally don't know if people consider them "top colleges" like they do Penn and Northwestern.</p>

<p>Well, to the layman, probably not. But then again the layman has never heard of Northwestern and thinks Penn is a state school. I don't know where you're getting this from. The accepted applicants to Northwestern and Tufts are very similar, and the acceptance rates are also nearly identical. They obviously are viewed to be comparable schools. Penn is slightly more competitive; BC less so.</p>

<p>lolabelle,</p>

<p>I didn't see she/he mentioned weather but she/he did write what I quoted. The fact that his/her intented fields of study happen to be NU's strength (NU's has top-10 programs in many areas, not just Medill, and chemistry/econ are two of them) just made his/her statement particularly off the mark and I just thought I'd point it out (JuJu didn't mention chemstiry/econ).</p>

<p>The reason JuJu mentioned IR was because the OP mentioned an interest in studying that since she somewhat regrets applying to Gtown's business school (to whcih she was accepted EA) and is therefore looking for IR-strong schools.</p>

<p>Okay. I thought the OP is interested in business/econ and chemistry, not IR.</p>

<p>BC is pointless to apply to if you already got into GTown, unless you REALLY need division 1-A (now the "Bowl Subdivision of Division I, but I refuse to call it that) football</p>