BU vs DePaul for CA kid

shoot4moon
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:10:07 +0000

What a tough choice -
BU - substantially more expensive, appears to have stronger student body socially and opportunity wise for research, internships, etc, College of General Studies would give her a great liberal arts small school feeling for first two years as well as a capstone project. BU was her “dream school” from day one - she is over the potential stigma of CGS - not worried about at this time. My worry is that it seems to rachet up the difficulty of jr and sr year as you are taking all major classes, and if you change your major you are potentially into a fifth year. If she has to do fifth year, she will have to take big loans, but can afford first four. This is tough, as some majors that she might pick may need extra time to do classes after all

DePaul - also has great programs - more ability to experiment with various majors within 4 years - great scholarship for merit, smaller classes although students almost all move off campus after freshman year and seem less connected. According to this board, some people say campus very friendly - seems much less social by counting the number of “hang out” and restaurant, etc spots on campus. Concerned that almost noone in CA has heard of DePaul, making us question job connections if she returns to West Coast after school.