I absolutely fell in love with BU and I would recommend it to everyone who asks. The school boasts nine different colleges with over 250 programs of study. Almost half of the student body lives off campus while the other half resides on campus. The students are very friendly which is encouraging. Their Occupational Therapy program ranks #2 in the US, while their Biomedical Engineering program sits at #8. When it comes to business, they rank at #18 in the country and the list goes on and on. Their buildings and equipment are state of the art, not to mention their abundance in top quality resources. Each department is filled with persons who are very polite and willing to help. I got a feeling of intimacy when I visited the various departments as the class sizes were surprisingly not as big as I expected. They were definitely larger than those at LaGuardia, but smaller than lecture hall classes. I spent most of my time at the School of Management since business is my main interest. I had the opportunity to speak with an advisor, who looked at my transcript and assessed how easily a transition a transfer to their school would be. What he said next was really surprising and encouraging. Most of the courses taken would be transferred. Whether it was a 3-credit course or not (as BU is typically a 4-credit school), it would not matter. They find a way to use all your credits. 

          Boston University’s campus immediately caught my eye. I was in awe of its setup. The atmosphere was to die for. It was also very clean and very tidy with a few trees and flowers sprouting here and there. The college is spread out along almost an entire avenue, with buildings on each side of the road. Transportation is very convenient as the subway runs on ground level right in the middle of the road. The campus really gives you that city feel one gets in New York City, yet it still gives you a sense of the suburbs. It makes it easy to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city in the blink of an eye, and to take a relaxing walk around the campus. Restaurants, both high and low end, bars and other services are less than a heartbeat away. Let me also add that Boston University’s campus is huge. Walking at New York City’s pace, it would still take you at least a half hour to walk from one end of campus to the other on that strip. For all the gym buffs, there’s an idea for a running course. I can definitely see how the size of the campus may deter some students from wanting to go there. It is possible that a student will have two classes that aren’t in close proximity on campus and would have only fifteen minutes to walk to the other after one finishes, and it can be a real hassle on a daily basis. However, I think the college foresaw that and tried its best to minimize that possibility. BU really followed a centralized theory, meaning each particular department has a huge building where almost all of a student’s classes in a particular major would be. You may not have to leave that building for the day, which makes it really convenient. The problem only arises in a situation where a business major would have to take a humanities class and would have to walk all the way across campus to that department for that class.

Fun Fact: The man himself who had a dream – yes Martin Luther King, Jr. graduated from there!