Boston University Top Questions

Boston University is a very big school. It can sometimes be difficult to find your place as one student. Luckily there are tons of students groups on campus. There are sports, arts, major-related groups, and many more. I am a member of Stage Troupe, an undergraduate theatre group for non-majors. It has been in existance for over 60 years. I have met some of my best friends through Stage Troupe and I have had the opportunity to work on incredible shows. I would highly recommend joining a group to become more involved at Boston University.

The most frustrating thing about BU is the cost of tuition and the cost of living in Boston. A degree at BU is one of the most expensive degrees in the world. If you don?t have financial aid, and I don?t, BU is a hard place to be.

It is easy to get tangled up in all the red tape at BU. No one looks out for you like you do, especially in such a large school. If you want to get something done (a major change, declaration of a minor, get into a class, etc...) get ready to push your way through a bunch of academic departments. It takes a lot of phone calls and office visits to make things happen.

The length of the campus.

Boston University has one of the highest tuition rates of schools in the nation, yet still overcharges students in living fees, overpays its higher administration, and fails to help them in dealing with the high cost of living in an urban environment.

There is not a career center set up to help students that are graduating without a specific point of study such as engineering or business.

Boston University costs way too much and doesn't offer quite enough financial aid.

financial aid and paperwork when it comes to something out of the ordinary

I often wondered who had written my peers' entrance essays or whether the Admissions Office had bothered to read them. I wish I had studied in a place where students were excited to be there; the place felt like a degree factory sometimes, with minimal consequences for intellectually lazy people (I felt myself slipping into laziness while there, too).

The most frustrating thing about BU is that some science or computer labs will have old and outdated equipment, while some others in the business or engineering schools will have state-of-the-art technology.

i live off campus in an apartment with my friends and commuting to class is very frustrating because the transportation system in boston is kind of badly run. also - grade deflation - sometimes no matter how hard you work you cannot do well in a class here.

The expensive cost to attend school and poor quality of housing.

The administration is no help, and really doesn't care about student concerns. For example, there was an out break of bed bugs in my dorm and administration failed to notify the whole building. Instead, I learned from the school paper. This, in Massachusetts, is a violation of the health code, and yet the school blew me off when I complained. And they can get away with it too. They are more concerned with image than the students.

Besides hockey sports are not a big deal. It would be great to go to a huge tailgate for a football game. Or have a basketball team in the NCAA tournament.

Not a lot of racial diversity. Also the advisors aren 't as supportive in some cases.

There is a lot of paperwork and red tape just because it is a larger school. It isn't so bad once you learn the system, but it can be annoying.

Too big, not enough structure. Too big- not enough individual attention.

The housing selection process, but it will probably get better as a new dorm is opening next year.

I am enrolled in a popular major and a lot of my classes are very large. I wish that I had closer relationships with my teachers and that more of my classes were discussion based.

Many wealthy students, which I am not.