Boston University Top Questions

There is not much help from counselors, FINANCIAL AID IS TERRIBLE AND SCHOOL IS OUTRAGEOUSLY EXPENSIVE

Boston University is a very large and very urban campus, which I don't think I was entirely ready for. The winter is dreadful, because despite the cold weather, students walk to class; public transportation is not efficient in Boston. Also, the cost of the school is too high.

The fact that there isn't enough housing and many freshman are forced to live in the Hyatt hotel in Cambridge, which is all the way across the river and not even a dorm.

The school is so large that I never felt very connected to it as a community.

The urban campus kind of takes away from the community feel. It is a long stretch of a city block so things can be far, which sucks in the winter. It would be nicer to have a more square shaped kind of campus.

Being that this is a metropolitan school, there is a lot of social competition amongst students. Sometimes it is a bit threatening when you are surrounded with people who treat you as their inferior just by the way you act or dress-it is often very intimidating. There just seems to be major class differences and people really take into account each others financial status'. Even in times of economical crises, students still treat others based on their status.

The school has a fairly ineffient beaurocracy.

A lot of rich brats

One of the worst things at this school is, in addition to being one of its attributes, is the lack of initmacy or individual attention given to students by faculty and administration. For students who are struggling or are lacking a sense of professional direction, this can be a large problem as they are simply just another face in the crowd.

My school does not have a way to integrate students with different majors and allow them to be friends.