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I think BU is greatly under-appreciated by its student body. BU, for a Private New England University, has a lot of diversity (although the African American population is virtually non-existant). 15-20{4a082faed443b016e84c6ea63012b481c58f64867aa2dc62fff66e22ad7dff6c} of the students are international. LGBT population is quite large. BU is more socioeconomically diverse than students give it credit for -- a lot of people are on nearly full need-based grant aid.

Most people that go to BU are rich. Those that are not have to work harder than the rest to work on their schoolwork and work outside of school, like me. Some students are very apathetic. Others are very involved in the school and their school work. There is just a large variety of classmates at BU.

Most of the students are extremely self absorbed (which isn't necessarily a bad thing).

Friendly, open-minded, knowledgeable people who are driven to change some part of the world.

My classmates are all very career oriented and prepared for their futures.

My classmates are there when I need them, helping me when necessary, while pushing and encouraging me to succeed.

Fratty. A lot of rich kids. Sums it up.

Although BU has a large student body, the students are hardly diverse. In all of the classes I have been in in my freshman year, there were little to no minority students in any of them. Most girls dress up everyday for class; longchamp bags, flats, designer jeans, expensive shirts, necklaces, charm bracelets, and tons of makeup. The boys are more casual, but a little frat boy jock-y. There are few alternative or sort of "out there" students. The majority of the student body is preppy and shallow. And these students don't really overlap. In the dining hall there are the nerdy boys and girls around their computers studying all the time, the preppy girls eating only fruit and looking at their phones, the preppy boys talking about their parties and girls, and then there are random people sitting alone. a lot of the students are from New Jersey, New York, Texas, and California.

My classmates are intellectuals from a variety of backgrounds with a lot of different perspectives than my own, which encourage me to think about everything in a plethora of ways.

My classmates here at BU come from many different backgrounds, but they all possess the same types of characteristics: intelligence, passion, curiosity, and a good sense of academic rigor.