<p>I’ve been looking at a bunch of sites where former/current students rate and comment on their experiences at Boston University. While I understand that such sites are not necessarily the best means to get information about a university, I could not help but notice that many posters had claimed that the vast majority of the students at BU were arrogant and snooty. Since the sites I looked at are disposed to having a sampling bias, I felt as though I would be better off asking the current students (and, to some extent, prospective students) on this site whether or not the descriptions of the students were apt or not. While I am by no means implying that this site is free from a sampling bias of any sorts, I believe that it is more free from it (relative to the variables that are in question) than student review sites and, since I can’t visit campus before May 1st, I feel as though it should be able to provide me with a more apt view of the student body (and whether or not most students are, in fact, snooty and arrogant). So, yea, thanks in advance :D.</p>
<p>I’ve never felt someone thought they were better than me. Why would they? I got into the same school as them. They’re in no way better than me. But those kinds of things depend on the person. Some people just aren’t nice and some are.</p>
<p>well in ANY college you’ll find people who think they are better than you but I would have to say the majority of the people here don’t think that at all. I would have to say that there are a lot of rich people here but as well as some very academically talented people. I also have to say that I have met some people that love to show off but you find those kinds of people everywhere right?</p>
<p>As a note, even if you were to visit BU, you’d end up being led by a tour guide who is in love with BU to begin with and you probably won’t get much of a chance to meet the normal student body.</p>
<p>And most of the students get annoyed by the tours since having a large group walk down Comm Ave makes it hard to get to class.</p>
<p>thanks for making this thread. i was wondering this, too, when i went on a BU review-reading rampage, today : P</p>
<p>OP, take it from a Pennsylvanian, it’s not a completely inaccurate assessment. I met a decent amount of down to earth, normal, non-exceedingly wealthy kids, but the pervasiveness of the cliquey I’m-better-than-you rich kids was basically intolerable.</p>
<p>dionte, stop this. You transferred out. I know a bunch of kids who transferred in, including one who transferred in and then out (to a religious school!). I live near BU and know literally dozens of kids who go there and have gone there. I know their families. Sorry your experience wasn’t what you hoped, but get over it and get on with your life. Seriously.</p>
<p>I have ‘gotten on with my life’. Pretty sad that you, an adult, sit on this board all day and criticize anyone who didn’t love BU.</p>
<p>My friend goes to BU and I asked her what she thought of the school and here is a part of what she sent me:
"For the most part, I quite like BU. I do kinda want to strangle 70% of the student body (which consists of ugg/Northface/legging-clad girls and Asian guys who are waaaay too concerned about their hair and man bags). Thank God for chem lab; if it weren’t my sassy lab partners, I don’t think I would any of them legging-clad *****es would have survived. The student body, for the most part, is more interested in parties than more intellectual pursuits (I can pretty much only find stuff in common with the CAS and ENG folk). "</p>
<p>^HAHAHAHA, man bangs 
& maybe that is not such bad news for a CAS-er, then?</p>
<p>I had the same dilemmas when I read the ************** website. 70% of the student population is alot…My high school is quite like that right now, and I want to stay away from those scenarios again. I just hope I’ll meet alot of nice people and make a bunch of friends so I can somewhat ignore the rest of the student body (or just the ones that are arrogant and snooty).</p>
<p>hahah my friend is a real character so she might have been exaggerating a little bit but it does seem like a large population of the student body is like that, especially from the BU videos. My friend lives in Warren says that “they” all live in warren, but she still thinks warren is a good place to live.</p>
<p>She’s not exaggerating at all; it’s entirely accurate.</p>
<p>So are you guys implying that, as a freshman, I should pick somewhere else other than Warren to live? I don’t really know the percentage of freshmen who actually live outside of Warren, but it does seem to be very little.</p>
<p>If I pick somewhere else other than Warren, will I miss out most of the social scene? And maybe suffer from the lack of friends for the first few weeks?</p>
<p>i was planning on choosing warren for the plain fact that it’s closest to the CAS buildings. ugh, this is all really not good news, guys :/</p>
<p>Eytukan, Warren is not like that AT ALL. I’m definitely not a “cliquey I’m-better-than-you rich kid,” nor do I think that most of Warren’s (or BU’s) population is like that. Warren is awesome, and I’d recommend it to all freshmen. Warren and West definitely make it easier to make friends in the beginning, but if you’re an outgoing person you’ll survive in any of the dorms. However, Warren, West and Towers would be your safe bets.</p>
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<p>The other dorms aren’t as far as you’d think from Warren. Hojo and Towers are maybe a 10 minute walk from CAS. You can also always try for a brownstone.</p>
<p>thisgirlisaG, there are 1800 people living in Warren. I guarantee you that there will be people of all sorts living with you. It’s up to you who you’ll pick as your friends.</p>
<p>i would suggest trying not to live in a brownstone your freshman year. while they are gorgeous, they’re mostly upperclassmen, and everyone there already has their group of friends and they don’t need to make new ones. i stayed in warren for my freshman and sophomore year, and while there were some snooty people, i loved my experience, most weren’t snooty, and i even became friends with some of the snooty ones! warren is an amazing freshman experience if you make the most of it. i made my best friends in warren towers, who im still close with 5 years later.</p>
<p>My friend says the west side is full of douchy sporty guys so if you wanna party with them go for it. About warren: my friend said she still likes it there even though there are a lot annoying girls and would recommend it. Then she told me to stay away from the towers at all cost.</p>