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<p>No, economic, geographic and racial diversity are just smokescreens you are putting up to avoid the issue of fairness. Obviously, these are not the issue being discussed. </p>
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<p>Well, since you asked, look no further than across the Fenway to Northeastern University. </p>
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<li><p>While BU is a two-year honors program, NU is a four-year program. </p></li>
<li><p>While BU excludes great students that transfer from another university from getting into its honors program (or even kids during great academically that want to shift from one of BU’s schools to CAS) - NU welcomes transfer students as well as current students to apply (as early as after first term Freshman year). </p></li>
<li><p>While BU sends honors students off to New Hampshire or gives free tickets to the BSO and the Red Sox - NU has none of those- activities are around academics - such as reading a book prior to first term and having discussion groups around that followed by a lecture by the author. The only social activity I’ve heard of is an ice cream social for honors students. </p></li>
<li><p>Rather than ‘marketing speak’ nonsense in BU’s Honors webpage like “As a pathway through the General Education curriculum in CAS, the Honors Program is quite straightforward. Ours is not a college within a college that separates its students from their classmates. Instead, the CAS Honors Program experience is fully integrated into the College’s general freshman and sophomore curriculum.” </p></li>
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<p>Really, I’m sure this is great comfort to know that those NOT going to Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox or NOT going to Symphony Hall, that they are NOT being separated from their classmates … because BU says so. Meanwhile, NU’s webpage merely discusses the positives of the academic opportunities. </p>
<p>UCONN is another that is about academic opportunities. It should also be pointed out that this is not about BU per se, but about schools like BU that have gone too far afield of academics or fairness.</p>