<p>I am absolutely torn over my decision. I love BU, being from the Boston area, and all it has to offer. Boston has an endless supply of things to do and especially people to connect with. With so many people, you are bound to find so many amazing opportunities ect,ect. However, they are a tremendous school and the personal attention and opportunities may be limited. I feel like I would have to be very competitive to achieve the same level as at a small school.</p>
<p>Rochester, however, is everything else I could want. When I visited I really felt like I could connect with all the current students as well as other accepted students. Their opportunities for research are amazing and the campus is beautiful. The small class sizes are awesome and I just felt like I really belong.</p>
<p>Is there anything I;m missing from either of these schools or do I just need to decide if I'm a city girl or a country girl. Thanks!</p>
<p>rochester is a great city too… it’s the third most populous city in ny, so there must be plenty to do there [off campus] and many opportunities. and what you said contradicted yourself with bu/boston about opportunities 
and so this is definitely not a matter of city girl/country girl, though rochester does give you the option of being in a somewhat secluded campus and has good access to the city.
go where you feel like you belong… and you said it yourself.</p>
<p>that is a hard decision. what about the costs for both schools, how much would you be expected to pay for both?</p>
<p>Money isnt an issue for me. Bu has opportunity for networking and career goals, but I feel like there is less opportunity for personal attention.</p>
<p>I may have answered this in the BU forum. I live near BU, had children there and now will have one at UR. </p>
<p>Where do you see yourself? Is it good or bad that you’d stay in Boston versus going away?</p>
<p>You can get individual attention at BU but unless you are in a smallish department - like Chemistry, which is mostly a grad program - you have to work for it. Very few kids go to office hours, something that’s true everywhere, so true that I know professors who post which coffee shop they’ll be in that day (not BU or UR AFAIK). </p>
<p>UR is not country. That would be Hamilton or Middlebury. Rochester is an actual city with a million people in the metro area - city itself is 200k. Not Boston, but not country.</p>
<p>D had the same problem last year. She wanted to live in Boston but go to UR. She couldn’t decide until May 1st where she should go. She chose UR and loves it there. Both are good schools but totally different as far as campus settings, housing and social life. Since I live much closer to Boston than Rochester, I feel it is definitely more exciting to live in Boston than Rochester, but depending on your major, you may not have time to enjoy the endless supply of social things to do in Boston anyway. D is a physics major and is busy every day with homework, classes and studying. If BU’s physics program is as tough as UR’s, she wouldn’t have seen much of Boston or else would have not done well in her classes because of the social distractions living in Boston offers. </p>
<p>You need to decide what kind of campus setting you want to live in and which school offers the stronger program for which you want to study.</p>
<p>That networking and career goal piece seems much a part of Rochester too. My D graduated a few years ago and made a ton of friends.</p>
<p>A major difference is that UR has fewer kids who dress expensive, trendy and there is a much more intellectual atmosphere. That’s mostly a function of size but also because BU is a bunch of colleges that vary in intensity of academic experience. Remember, I had kids at BU, so I’m not putting it down.</p>