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Doing Boston area college tour. Is this plan sound?

Hey all,
I'm applying for Harvard SCEA, but I'm thinking about applying for Tufts and BC for RD as a match-low match. I'm currently attending boarding school about 3 hours away from Boston, so I was thinking about going there for October break. I think I wanna try some courses at Harvard, and I'm certainly gonna have an interview with senior/alumni there on the first day I get there. I don't know about Tufts or BC yet. I think I'd just look around the campus in one day. So, I'm planning to stay in Boston for two nights and leave to RI or CT on the third day in the morning for other colleges... Is this plan plausible? Does anyone from Boston have any idea? Oh and I'm taking subway in Boston.
And anywhere else I must see? Cambridge town and Boston downtown for sure, I guess?
Do you think it would be a stretch to get to Boston in the morning, spend whole day at Harvard, look around either Tufts or BC, and check the other college out in the next morning and leave Boston? (So spending one night and half in total, not two nights) I've never visited Boston, so I have no idea. Is it easy to get lost in Boston? (I'm from NYC, so I'm very used to subways or crowded places.)
Thank you.
14 repliesI'm applying for Harvard SCEA, but I'm thinking about applying for Tufts and BC for RD as a match-low match. I'm currently attending boarding school about 3 hours away from Boston, so I was thinking about going there for October break. I think I wanna try some courses at Harvard, and I'm certainly gonna have an interview with senior/alumni there on the first day I get there. I don't know about Tufts or BC yet. I think I'd just look around the campus in one day. So, I'm planning to stay in Boston for two nights and leave to RI or CT on the third day in the morning for other colleges... Is this plan plausible? Does anyone from Boston have any idea? Oh and I'm taking subway in Boston.
And anywhere else I must see? Cambridge town and Boston downtown for sure, I guess?
Do you think it would be a stretch to get to Boston in the morning, spend whole day at Harvard, look around either Tufts or BC, and check the other college out in the next morning and leave Boston? (So spending one night and half in total, not two nights) I've never visited Boston, so I have no idea. Is it easy to get lost in Boston? (I'm from NYC, so I'm very used to subways or crowded places.)
Thank you.
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Replies to: Doing Boston area college tour. Is this plan sound?
The subway (the T') does not go to Tufts, but you catch a bus from Harvard Square to Tufts.
You could probably do tours of Harvard and Tufts in one day, but fitting in BC the same day is going to be difficult because of transportation issues. I suppose you could take a cab and start at 9:00am at Harvard, hit Tufts around 1pm and BC around 4:00pm, but you need to check all three schools for tour schedules (you can find them on-line) as campus tours and information sessions probably overlap.
I don't think anyone should consider them a match or low-match but that is just my opinion.
@Texaspg I didn't say safety. Tufts is my match and BC is low match. BC isn't that hard to get in. If it's your reach, then it's yours. My brother didn't consider BC as reach, and neither am I. They accept almost 30% of their applicants.
@jshain, That's also in my plan! I'm planning to see BC and Tufts on the first day, spend a morning and afternoon in Harvard and take the commuter train to Providence and look around Brown next morning. Then I'm off to New Haven... I'm very psyched.
You may consider them matches but at least Tufts has a reputation for turning down kids who got into Harvard.
Gibby, you are dating yourself! Do you remember that the original Steve's and the original Bertucci's were practically next to each other? Oh, for chocolate pudding ice cream again.