<p>i agree:
- CFA needs a better building.
- Blacks are way too under-represented.
- getting good grades may be harder at BU than at most other colleges. it’s starting to get well-known though, so perhaps grad school admissions officers will know that your B or even C is equal to someone else’s A at another college.</p>
<p>i disagree:</p>
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<li><p>BU dorms are like prisons.
not quite. during your freshman year, you’ll most likely live at one of the big dorms. don’t expect luxury, but in no way are you going to be living in a prison. unless you’re extremely picky, i doubt you’ll hate your dorm. i lived in a triple at west last year (freshman year) and liked it enough to pick it again for this year. i know dozens of sophomores and even a few juniors who picked west again. my friend’s friend who came to visit from another college was very jealous of BU’s housing (and of course food too).</p></li>
<li><p>it’s hard to find seats in dining halls.
even when i’m with a few friends, i’ve never had to look for a seat for more than 5 minutes. sometimes during peak lunch and dinner hours, you’ll just have to keep an eye out for who’s about to leave. for a school with over 16,000 undergrads, we need bigger dining halls, but it’s not a huge deal, nor should it discourage anyone from coming to BU.</p></li>
<li><p>there’s no CAS advising for non-CAS students.
i think that’s true, but if you email the department heads or stop by at their offices, they’ll be willing to answer your questions.</p></li>
<li><p>charles griswold’s ethics course is miserable.
different people have different tastes. griswold is a well-known scholar listed in some college review guides as one of the nation’s top philosophy professors. i took his ethics course because i read about that. it was pretty tough and i didn’t even do that well, but his course was one of the top 5 best classes i’ve taken in my life. it inspired me enough to be a philosophy minor.</p></li>
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