Hi I’m from California and am currently deciding between Oxy and BU. I’m not sure which one to go with. Price isn’t really an issue since I got around the same financial aid for both. I’m pre-med and I don’t know if I should go to a smaller or larger school. My ultimate goal is to go to the east coast for graduate school but I’m not sure if I should go there yet (I’m not sure how I feel about the snow lol). I guess another worry for me is that I know that I like the social scene/ people at BU, I’m just worried that Oxy is dead/too small.
Academically I can’t help you.
As far as the other lifestyle factors, it’s easier to put on a coat and hat than to change the social life of a campus. If you feel like you’d fit in at BU better than at Oxy socially, and you are thinking of living on the East Coast at some point in your life anyway, go for it now. Not sure what your reasoning is for wanting to go East for grad school (school prestige?) but if you hate the weather and want to come back to CA for grad school there are great options here for med school too.