Any opinions on the BAC?

soozievt
Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:44:49 +0000

Can you even transfer into a BArch without starting over as a freshman? I am not sure. Maybe someone else knows. But if you had to start again as a freshman, I’m not sure this path and number of years makes sense because you could finish at Tufts (after all it is too late to transfer for next year and so you will have done two years there already) and then do a MArch degree program. It might take about the same amount of time when all is said and done.

I honestly do not know about BAC and can’t help with that. Your post caught my eye because my daughter had applied to Tufts planning to study architecture and got in and loved it and strongly considered attending but chose Brown. She also did Harvard Career Discovery. She is planning to apply to MArch programs. I’m just thinking that at this juncture considering you haven’t yet applied to transfer, that it might make sense to finish out Tufts and then do a MArch. At Tufts, you can do the BA in Architectural Studies or the engineering program in Architectural Engineering or major in one and minor in the other. You also could do a semester abroad in an architecture program in your junior year, which is what my daughter did. Just a thought of some options.

Maybe someone else can say whether BArch programs take transfers and if so, if they have to start again as freshmen or how that would work, coming from a BA (or engineering) school.