NYU or Tufts?

PengsPhils
Tue, 01 May 2018 03:53:53 +0000

Northeastern has 4-5 stops on 2 lines on campus or close (5 min or less from somewhere on campus) so no stop is ever more than a few minutes away, where it takes realistically 15-20 minutes to get to the Davis stop walking or waiting for the shuttle. Add in the travel time distance and you have the difference in feel.

While a Tufts student can get to Park Street in 35-40 minutes, Northeastern gets there in 15 usually. If Tufts students want to go anywhere outside of Downtown (places such as Fenway, South End, and many other more happening areas than the financial district) it adds onto that 40 minute time, sometimes topping an hour. The 15 vs 40 difference may not seem big, but it’s enough to make going into the city a day trip or more of an event than a daily part of life like schools like Northeastern, BU, and Emerson have. BC faces similar challenges that Tufts does. The end result is that a lot more of the population ends up staying closer, usually keeping to Davis/Harvard square with Central in Cambridge being the place for most bars and the like. For reference, even Northeastern can get to Central 10 minutes faster.

Again, Tufts is far from your strip mall suburb and there is lots to do in Davis/Harvard/Central Square, but it simply takes more time and effort to get into other areas of Boston for daily life. It depends on what people want when they say they want a city: the access or the daily life.