<p>I have heard a lot of stuff about Boston being a great city for college students because there are so many universities/colleges around… but how often do students from all the colleges actual mix in Boston? Do people make a lot of friends who go to other schools?</p>
<p>I guess this is just something I have been wondering because the number of colleges in the area is one of the things that really drew me to Boston, but I’d like to know what the extent of that actually is.</p>
<p>Dear Savs : If a student knows a high school friend attending a nearby university, they will do a dinner someplace in or around Boston as a get together and typically bring a few friends each and the networking of different friends thus begins. Certainly, we have see this between our child’s high school friends attending Boston College, Boston University, Harvard, Northeastern, Emmanuel, Tufts (much hard to get to), and a few others. Staying involved in clubs that go off-campus also gives more variety to your social network both on and off campus. The sporting events, like the Beanpot, and others also bring the campuses together albeit in competition. Hope that this helps.</p>
<p>You don’t immediately have a lot of friends from other schools but it happens. Somebody you are friends with will know people from other schools, you will go hang out with them, make friends, and it builds. I have people I would consider pretty good friends at BU and Harvard, who I did not know prior to college. At the beginning you stay on whatever campus you are at, but you start venturing out and meeting new people. It’s definitely a plus and it lets you experience lots of different types of schools. I’ve been to a few frat parties, and BC has no frats. It’s also just a neat atmosphere when you go out in boston and every other person you see is a student. Makes for a more fun city.</p>