What are the negatives of BU?

<p>Here are some negatives that I have found from my experience at BU so far:</p>

<p>Grading: There really isn't a standard grading policy. Some teachers may deflate or inflate your grades. Others go by the standard grading system (93-100 = A; 90-92 = A-; 87-89 = B+ and so on).</p>

<p>Guest policy: I don't like that we can't sign into another dorm after midnight. I think they should change it so we sign in from 12 am-7 am (which is currently the time we cannot sign in at all) and are able to swipe in from 7 am-12 am. BU keeps saying they'll do something about this, but I haven't seen any changes.</p>

<p>T subway: You'll find this problem with any school in Boston, but I find the T inconvenient. The B-line runs along BU and I always find that it takes forever fto catch an outbound train. Also they recently raised prices and charge for outbound above ground.</p>

<p>And I know you said not to mention anything about the weather, but the weather can be crazy. We recently had some VERY cold days. In between all we had one 49 degree day.</p>

<p>ECONOMIC DIVERSITY. I came here, and thought to myself, wow I really love all the international kids, all the different races, but then I found out really quickly that economic diversity is virtually nonexistent.</p>

<p>2AM in Boston is like midnight for Cinderella.
But Boston is still Boston- clean city, nice-friendly people, and short buildings. </p>

<p>CGS totally blows</p>

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<p>On the upside, I didn't live in the Hyatt, but I lived in the Holiday Inn, which was a total blessing in disguise. It was all the good stuff of the Hyatt, awesome tight group of friends, and closer to BU campus. Now, I got housing in South Campus- my own apartment- as a freshman. `=)</p>

<p>The Hyatt kids do well too. I know freshman with singles now because they were in the Hyatt or Holiday Inn first term. (BTW, singles cost more.)</p>

<p>You don't find much economic diversity at any private school. Not even at many of the large state schools because blue collar kids tend more to more truly local schools.</p>

<p>BU is pretty generous about financial aid.. so a lot of smart students who were accepted to "better" but more expensive colleges often wind up coming here cuz it's cheaper for them. in general, private schools have little economic diversity, but i think BU's financial aid makes it have a higher degree of economic diversity than other private schools.</p>

<p>the majority of BU students are middle class and upper middle class, but there's definitely plenty of students from the extreme ends of the spectrum too. i know some students who are filthy rich (one of my friends wears tailor-made $800 shoes), but i also know just as many who can't afford anything beyond the very basic necessities (one of my friends can't afford to go home to africa until his 4 years here are over).</p>

<p>if you're just hanging out with people who dress similarly to you, you'll always be blind to whatever economic diversity there is. unlike with racial diversity - where even if you always hang out with people from your race, you'd still know that others exist - with economic diversity, unless you spend time with others, you'll never find out that not everyone can afford somethigoing out to eat.</p>