govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:31 am
A_B wrote: ↑Tue Apr 03, 2018 10:24 am
Well. It's looking like BU, sight unseen. On one hand, it was a school she was very interested in from the jump (it's in the first post) but I have some trepidation about never having been there. They gave a much more generous aid package than we were expecting, so it is surprisingly close to UK if she lived on campus here. We are going to try to get up there, but it doesn't look like it will be before she has to make a decision. She had a couple of other options, but the ones that would have beaten BU declined her admission.
Thanks to all of you, and I know it sounds like BU might not have been the swamp's first choice, but she is excited so we are going to try to be excited, too.
Syb and I know a thing about BU. It's definitely a city school. I enjoyed my year there. Other than its insane sports fans, Boston is a great, liveable town. She's probably going to stick out a bit, coming from Kentucky, just like I did, coming from Florida.
BU is an interesting school, because there isn't much of a campus, it's just buildings in the middle of a city. The beauty of it, is you can really make whatever you want out of your college experience. There are tons of activities, but you can do your own thing living in the city and not be stuck on a campus. I'm happy to discuss in detail if you or your daughter would like, but going there for law school was much different than the undergrad experience.
I don't know how much it changed in the last 17 years, but there were a lot of kids who came from big money. Maybe I just noticed them because I found them so obnoxious, and going to a state school and living in upstate New York, I had never been exposed to the upper crust, but it was a bit of culture shock for me. Lots of products of trophy wives dressed in all black designer clothes and purses that cost more than a car. My first year or two, there were tons of kids from Asian magnates, then the Asian economies collapsed and they all went home. Not sure if BU resumed as a magnet for Asian billionaires' kids.
I think Boston is a great city to go to school, because it is so small and accessible. You get all the benefits of a city, but it has a small, comfortable feel. It doesn't have the grit and fast-paced energy of New York, plus there are something like 50 colleges in the greater Boston area, so there is an enormous population of college kids, and activities geared towards college kids.
While I absolutely hated law school, I loved living in Boston. I would highly recommend not owning a car in Boston.
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-Pruitt