<p>The only science area in which BC is weak is engineering, because it doesn’t exist at BC. Otherwise every program is very strong, faculty from the physics department just did something big with nanotechnology that I couldn’t begin to explain but from what i gather it was significant. Check out the BC website for more info. I would say of the schools you mentioned BC has the strongest reputation, BU is known for being the safety school of BC. It wasn’t nearly on the same level back then as it is now, and I wouldn’t trust a 25 year old opinion that has probably been deluded by a million other factors than the quality of BC’s science department. For pre-med, BC has a med school acceptance rate of 75%, just as an example.</p>