CU Boulder Class of 2025 Regular Decision

mountainsoul
Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:47:22 +0000

A nice summary about CSU from Colorado local @twoinanddone:

Ft. Collins is more of a western town than Boulder. CSU is more western. It’s in the same athletic conference as Wyoming, Boise State, Utah State while CU is in the Pac 12 with Stanford, Cal, UCLA.

CSU is the land grant college and it shows in its offerings. Engineering at CU is aerospace and business while at CSU it is more agriculture, industrial design. The school has a big focus on agriculture and veterinary sciences. It is much more low key and cowboy-ish, but that’s what the students want. It has a new football stadium. For sports, its rivals are closer (Wyoming, Air Force, Boise State) so they have a lot of activities that involve traveling (for the day) to those schools, there is a run between Ft. Collins and Laramie for those games to keep the rivalry alive.

You can get to Boulder on a bus but I really doubt anyone does that! If a group is going to Boulder, they take a car and it’s about 40 minutes. They might do that for a party (same fraternity? because some one is dating someone from the other school) but it’s not done on a regular basis. There isn’t much interactions between the schools except for the old Rocky Mtn Showdown (football game on labor day weekend) but that’s been cancelled. Also, it was held in Denver.

DU is a different personality altogether. It’s an urban school in Denver, with the main sports being hockey and lacrosse (and this year women’s gymnastics). It’s smaller and has more of a focus on the business school and international affairs. It has a hockey rivalry with Colorado College, but the lacrosse rivalries are with the east coast schools (Duke, Syracuse, Albany) or midwest schools (ND, Marquette).

So DU is more like an urban small school, CU/Boulder is more an urban, NY/California feeling, and CSU is more low key, cowboy feeling town. All are fun and great, but they are different.