Wow - 2 AMAs from current students! I've got a ton of questions, and I'm definitely interested in hearing perspectives of someone who is just starting compared with someone getting ready for the next step. Hopefully, this won't be a huge time suck for either of youRedGiant wrote:Current BU 3L here. Feel free to PM me with questions about school/life/jobstuff. I can't really help with Admissions answers--no one really talks about what their numbers were. Much of my class has 1/2 tuition scholarships, not sure if that's true three years on.Dexter97 wrote:Im interested in this. In all the posts Ive seen it seems like BU is the place to go if you want the city atmosphere and want to be able to "do your own thing" whereas BC is all about school spirit, involvement, good boy's club. Any insight?mrdanoesq wrote:Great! Thanks - let's start w/ the obvious: why BU (esp. over BC)? Where else were you looking?rion91 wrote:Hey guys. 1L at BU here. I'll answer any Qs you have. But please post them here since I won't be checking my PMs. FWIW, I was admitted to/visited BC as well.
I took a class at BC (we can do that for free, but sadly BC classes don't count for your BU GPA). I summered with a BC 2L too. The general difference I felt was that BC was more "fratty" and "sorority"-ish (this is a generalization, as BC itself has no Greek system), but the kids in my class were just younger, more brotastic, and the girls really cared about looking super-cute in a way that most BU girls do not. I also felt like people had more money in general--a lot of BC kids had cars (because BC Law is hard to get to without a car during off hours). The prof at BC was great, and their campus seemed more active than ours in terms of club events. The other difference was that the kids in my class were more free about asking idiotic questions--this tends to be tempered a bit more at BU, in my experience, but people at BC just asked away. (The prof was really nice and patient about answering everything--this was not a dig on BC as much as a difference that the academic dialogue seemed more open at BC.) The BC cafeteria is loads better than BU's pathetic attempt at a cafe, but BC shares it with the freshman that live on that campus. I actually like how nested and tiny the BC campus is too--BU's law school is now quite large and indoor-sprawly now that we have two buildings, and it creates a lack of community in a way that BC does not.
Good luck, and again, happy to answer questions to the best of my ability.

Question:
RedGiant - do you have employment lined up for the summer already? How helpful has the CDO been in your process?
Rion97- you're still early in your law school experience, but have you had any conversations with the CDO? What's your perspective?