BC Honors vs NYU Stern

BC2012guy
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:25:48 +0000

Both will be excellent and will prepare you equally for getting a PhD. The Honors program at BC will really hone your reading, writing, and research skills and will allow you to do a thesis, which is probably the most important thing for getting into a PhD program (along with your GPA, GRE scores, and Recs). If you have not done so already I would certainly visit both and see which one you like more and where you can see yourself being happier. The academic reputations are about equal, so one won’t help any more or less than the other from that angle.

The two schools are drastically different on so many levels but very similar academically. If you want a traditional college experience, pick BC. If you want to live in NYC while taking classes (which can be awesome in its own right, though I personally would save that for grad school) then pick NYU.

I am not very familiar with the travel opportunities of NYU, but BC has an economics class where the economic history of El Salvador is studied, and then over spring break the class goes on a service trip there.

Again, I urge you to visit both and see which one you like more, as I doubt that either has any particular advantage for getting you into a PhD program. Just as you got into both colleges because of the work you did in high school, you will get into grad school because of the work you did in college.