HELP! Boston College vs UW-Seattle (only 1 day left to decide)

coffeelover467
Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:37:10 +0000

you know i WAS on the same boat as you! i was either deciding on uw, bc, or neu.
and all of the pros and cons that you listed were the SAME as mine…except about the course offerings i’m planning on doing pre-med and business (haha my brains gonna hurt for the next couple of years!)

but after some hard thinking, nagging all of my college cousins, family, and friends…i decided to go to uw.

why…?

well i wanted to go to NEU at first because they had the best co-op program in the u.s. and plus they had an affiliation with tufts medical school so that would’ve been a bonus for me when i apply for medical school

then BC was nice because it was a christian school and had a nice reputation…
and again with boston, i’ve lived in washington for 13 years now and i so wanted to get out of here and head to the east, heck i applied to 14 schools and they were all in the east except uw (the only school i applied to in washington) but after narrowing down my list of places i got accepted to and saw myself in it came down to boston or seattle…
the new york campuses just didnt have the ‘college’ feel to it and the north carolina schools were too ierno…southern? lol for me…

haha anyways, enough rambling (i read your long post, so you’ll read my long post :)

so whyd i choose uw out of all the other schools?

1.) i realized that i’d miss my family wayy too much (i have a huge family and they all live in seattle and we’re really close, always having family parties.)
2.) all my friends are still gonna be here and i’d miss them too much
3.) UW gave me a FULL RIDE –> FREE MONEY!
4.) i can always go home whenever i need something
5.) –>this ones nice<– IF I DON’T LIKE UW…I CAN ALWAYS TRANSFER OUT!
6.) UW is considered one of the original public ivies
7.) UW’s colors are purple and i love huskies (lol i don’t know how important that is but i love purple!)
8.) lots of research opportunities
9.) ranked pretty high up there in the u.s. ranks and not to mention higher than some ‘elite’ schools in world university ranks
10.) awesome medical program and their business school is 1 in 4 schools in the us that has the european quality improvment system accred.

but, when it comes down to it, the main reason i chose uw was because my parents told me that i should just give it a shot for atleast a year and that way the transition would be easy because ill have my family and friends here for support and if end up not liking it i always have the option of transferring out and going somewhere else. plus we have our whole lives to go out there and live in the eastcost, in europe, in austrailia, anywhere in the world. i realized, why am i such in a rush to get out of washington? what am i running from? (and heck i’ve lived here longer than you have!) and plus these would be the last few years that i would really be ‘living with’ and seeing my parents, cause 10 years from now we’ll have a husband/wife and everything will be differnt. so might as well enjoy and savor the moment while it lasts.

anyways, i hope that helped you! and if i seemed vauged or unclear cause i rambled too much feel free to pm or just reply to this…

but, this theard actually probably helped me more than you because after typing why i chose uw, it reassured me that i didnt make the wrong decision (ive been having second thoughts lately as may 1 approaches)

good luck!

and please forgive me for any mistakes as it is 135 in the morning and im packing like crazy for my flight this weekend!