USC/Michigan/Boston College

<p>Also coming from a very biased point of view, I would choose BC (because I go there). All three are within the top 35 schools nationally - so don't stress out about the differences. (I have a friend who chose a school over another simply because it was ranked 7 spots ahead, and she is absolutely miserable...).</p>

<p>I also applied and was admitted to USC. The school is very well renowned on the West Coast and of course the campus is beautiful. However, I liked BC better in that it was smaller and seemed more intimate. BC CSOM (Carroll School of Management) is very well respected in the Northeast...which is where I ultimately saw myself living, as opposed to Southern California. Nevertheless, both schools are well-regarded nationally...</p>

<p>If you happened to be admitted into the honors program at BC, please consider accepting the offer. I am in the program and it is EXCELLENT. Not only very well regarded among employers and possessing devoted alumni, the program (which only enrolls 30 students a year - each CSOM class has 500 total) is very intimate, and it allows students to have the very best professors from the get-go, small classes (my first semester of freshman year, i had 5 classes of sizes 80, 30, 15, 10, 10), and the students really become best friends. Although everyone's extremely intelligent, it's not cutthroat by any means (on the contrary, I believe that USC's Marshall School grades on a 2.8 forced curve).</p>

<p>And don't forget about Boston, the ultimate college town. Sports at BC aren't quite that of USC or Michigan (especially football), but our games do sell out and all the students go and have a great time. It's definitely smaller than the other two, but I feel like my experience has been as good as any.</p>