<p>My scores are a little low for BU.
I would like to know if applying to CGS will increase my chance of getting in.
Thank you so much. </p>
<p>yeah CGS is the easiest to get in. It’s not worth it tho…I wouldn’t apply. FOr me, I didn’t check the CGS box</p>
<p>@food4lyfe Thanks for your help:) </p>
<p>I applied to COM with a 3.8 weighted gpa and an 1800 sat. Applying ED made me feel a little more secure, but I also check off the CGS box because I just love the school.</p>
<p>@kymedlin I love Boston University too. My gpa is the same as yours. I have a 28 Act. I hope we will both get in! </p>
<p>DD applied to CGS and CAS, and ended up a COM major. She believes that CGS prepared her better for the demands of COM than the students who had come through CAS. CGS classes are smaller and much more rigorous in terms of writing and reading demands than many of the CAS intro classes that you do as part of your general curriculum requirements, She went to Europe with CGS after her freshman year for the science course (only school that offers study abroad that early), went again in her Junior year, and is still graduating early with a ton of extra units. I think it is an EXCELLENT idea to apply to CGS as well as COM.</p>
<p>@shoot4moon
thank you so much.</p>
<p>If you’re in CAS you have much more freedom to take what you want for general education. So yes it’s going to be easier to coast through gen-ed if you want.</p>
<p>This is in the context of </p>
<p>-You will potentially have much more difficult courses than what they make you take in CGS from the get go because you have a major</p>
<p>-You have the option to take more rigorous courses if you choose too.</p>
<p>@FlamFlex
Thank you for your advice. </p>
<p>I will echo @shoot4moon my DD is in CGS and loves it, she is taking a COM course but switching to Sargent in the spring, she won’t lose anything doing that. She had no idea what she wanted to study and that’s why she applied ED directly to CGS. She feels like she is in college like her brother who went to a smallish top 30 national university that admits students ONLY into a liberal arts core and you declare your major as a rising Sophomore. He loved it and and a Senior has gotten 2 job offers already, one is with the NBA!!!</p>
<p>I would not have let her attend BU unless she went into the liberal arts core, besides knowing the benefits in developing critical thinking that I have seen as a huge benefit during my college recruiting trips for my various companies. Also, knowing her and thinking she would get lost in a huge Univ like BU, its been a perfect fit. </p>
<p>The only complaint she has is not being able to take “fun” electives (like film, or human sexuality (wheew) since the CGS courses generally eat those up. But those electives, although fun don;t really prepare you for anything except maybe good cocktail conversation…</p>
<p>My advice, apply to CGS if you know what you don;t know, think liberal arts is a good education, like smaller courses and are not afriad that missing out on “gut” courses. ( in my college we took geology - rocks for jocks, astronomy- because its a night and the girls like when you can tell them what stars you are looking at, art history or film - to sleep) for an easy A to get your GPA up, or that they fit into your schedule, in CGS you don’t have that option, you actually learn a valuable skill, critical thinking and fabulous writing, both of which will suit you well in the workplace, more so than American Studies 363: Surfing and American Culture. a real BU course !!! <a href=“http://www.bu.edu/academics/cas/courses/cas-am-363/”>http://www.bu.edu/academics/cas/courses/cas-am-363/</a></p>
<p>@Jssaab1
Thank you so much for the great advice. </p>
<p>Good points above! Be aware that an acceptable gpa buys you free overload priveledges. DD overloaded every semester she was eligible except overseas, and took about 18 -20 units most semesters. She loved it!</p>
<p>@shoot4moon
Thank you. </p>