<p>I'm not looking for someone to tell me my chances, I am just curious about opinions of the following schools. I live on the west coast so I am trying to get a feel for what people think about these schools. I have visited all of them and I am more or less content in attending any of them for the fall. </p>
<p>I am a transfer from SoCal. </p>
<p>Boston College
Santa Clara University
Boston University
Northeastern University
Fordham University
UC Santa Barbara
Drexel University (Accepted)</p>
<p>The order above is my interpretation of hardest to easiest. If you feel differently please let me know. I'm just curious as to what others think, especially people on the east coast. </p>
<p>What is your opinion of each schools business program for majoring in either accounting or economics?</p>
<p>I’ll do what I can. I am from the East Coast.</p>
<p>Boston College: academically strong, historically Irish Catholic, seems very accepting/tolerant. Just outside Boston, giving it a great campus and a metropolis nearby. Good financial aid.</p>
<p>Boston University: in the middle of Boston, it has less of a campus, more of a group of buildings. This is good for some, but I don’t like it as much. I hear they have pretty bad financial aid, but I don’t know firsthand. No travel distance from Boston, it is right there. A very good medical program (Isaac Asimov taught there!).</p>
<p>Fordham University: religiously similar to BC, with historical Irish Catholic roots, it is open and accepting (welcomes gay students, helps students find mosques and synagogues). Two campuses; one in the Bronx, larger and more historical. One in Manhattan, smaller, still a cohesive campus, right in the middle of everything. I’m biased because I may end up attending, but I have a good opinion of it.</p>
<p>Sorry, I don’t know much about accounting or economics majors.</p>
<p>Not sure about each business school but from an NJ perspective :
Boston college
Boston university
Northeastern
Fordham
UC Santa Barbara
Drexel
Santa Clara university</p>
<p>I’ve been lucky enough to visit each school. I’m just trying to get a feel for what others think about the schools. </p>
<p>Invader: it’s nice to see a different perspective. Just like unknown very little about east coast schools it’s interesting your thoughts on my CA schools. UCSB is a top ten public school in the country but lacking a business school which hurts it in terms of business majors. </p>
<p>I believe Santa Clara is ranked about 40th of best business schools in the country. I would never of known about it if i didn’t have friends that lived near it. Is only about 6 thousand students and has a much higher acceptance rate than what I expected from such high caliber school. </p>
<p>Top: BC: Bright students, great campus, excellent location, snobby rich kids
BU: All about getting you into grad school, no green space, true big city life</p>
<p>High: Northeastern: you have to like the co-op idea, city living</p>
<p>Fordham: We toured and were not impressed. Felt like a prep school to us. Worst admissions talk of the 18 schools we visited.</p>
<p>Drexel: We couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Seedy area.</p>
<p>Most kids I know would much prefer to live in Boston than Philadelphia.</p>
<p>I did not visit anywhere near 18 schools. I agree with you about the Boston Schools. </p>
<p>Fordham does feel like a prep school. They are a bit out of the ordinary with their core curriculum but I didn’t feel that it was a horrible admissions talk. I did visit during the summer and was more interested in the campus than paying attention during the info session. I was not impressed by the info session but I would agree it was pretty low key compared to other schools I visited. </p>
<p>I will agree with you about the area of Drexel. That is one of the big things that bothered me. It didnt seem like the nicest part of the city but you can do a lot worse. I am from the LA area and nobody bashes USC for being in South Central. The area around USC is the same if not worse than Drexel but I think SC offers more on campus that Drexel does. </p>
<p>Yes, I would much prefer Boston than Philly. There is no doubt about that.</p>