I’m so excited!! Got admitted for Fall 2025!

Congratulations! On behalf of the Board of Admissions, I'm excited to welcome you to the Boston University Class of 2030. You have been admitted to the College of Engineering under the Early Decision program.

We're lit

Hello everyone! I recently acquired this subreddit from Reddit Request after it was abandoned a few years ago. This is not a very active subreddit, and the more official unofficial subreddit for BU is over at r/BostonU. Go over there to hang out with your fellow terriers. This subreddit is really just to help you find the real one, but still open if you really want and you can post to your heart's content but serves no special purpose that r/BostonU doesn't already. If there is a potential purpose for this subreddit that someone might have, let me know.

Stay safe!

I (20m) am a junior at BU. I have failed to make a single close friend during my entire time at BU. I also currently have 0 people I hang out with outside of academic or extracurricular sanctioned settings (In my whole time at BU two people have fallen within this category, both friendships were very superficial and they both slowly stopped hanging out with me). Currently, the closest human relationships I have on campus are members of the clubs and extracurriculars I participate in (3 in total) and most of them are wonderful people, however, none has ever expressed any interest in spending time with me outside of a club-sanctioned setting. This inability to make friends has completely ravaged my self-esteem and mental health. I do everything I can to try and not become depressed, exercise daily, journal, meditate, and do yoga, but none of it can change the fact that human beings are simply not supposed to withstand this kind of isolation for two straight years and counting.

I understand that throughout the last two years the only common denominator has been myself. In the beginning I tried blaming the school, telling myself I didn't need those rich brats to be my friends (I'm here on scholarship) but that just made me more bitter, and I could tell even from afar that most people here were good people. So, there must be something wrong with me, it's the only logical explanation, but what? I just wish someone would tell me. I want someone to shake me by my shoulders and tell my all the ways that I'm a horrible person. At least then I could maybe change for the better. But I just don't know. I know I over share to much, which I'm trying to work on, but I've met people with loads of friends who over share way more than I do. I know I can be a bit of a know-it-all, and the things I like to talk about the most are a bit pretentious (politics, philosophy, religion, history etc.), but again, I've met people who makes those topics their whole personality much more than I do, and yet they're still part of a big friend group. I can be a little awkward at times, but again, I've met people far more awkard than me doing just fine socially.

My reason for making this post is not neccersarily to ask for advice, though I'm open to it. I've talked to all of family and friends back home (which yes, I do have!) and just hear the same suggestions over and over like: Be a good listener! Ask people about themselves! Don't talk about yourself to much! Don't be afraid to get rejected! I've tried implementing these but nothing seems to make people want to be my friend. My main reason for making this post is just to ask: Is anyone else this big of a looser as well? I feel like I've completely wasted my college experience. Whenever I'm eating my meals alone in the dining hall and I see a big group of friends eating and laughing together it just makes me feel like such a fuck up. It feels like everybody else at least has someone, at least one good friend, while I have nothing. But I don't know, maybe there are some other current students or alumi on this subreddit who failed as badly in the friend department as I have, and if you did, please let me know, so I can stop feeling like the most uniquely unlikeable person of all time.

TLDR; I'm a junior at BU whose failed to make a single close friend in my entire time at the school. I'd apprecite if anyone else who goes or went to BU and also never made any friends here would share their experience, so that I feel like less of a uniquely unlikeable fuck-up.

sorry. just had to do it.

GO BU!

So I’m an incoming freshman and when making a new account for my BU portal, I was asked to come up with a username and password. Ofc, very excited me thought up of the username “bueyyy,” as in “BU Eyyyyy!!!!” Not sure what I was thinking except I assumed that it would just be a username and I would only need it to sign into my account. I didn’t realize my email would become [email protected]. Anyway, so for most students apparently it’s impossible to change because of how many places it’s then used all over the system, but because I’m new, I was able to call the help center, showed verification, payed 50 dollars, emailed back and forth with someone who works in the help center to set up a second call for payment after my first one, and just finally got it changed. So PLEASE BE AWARE INCOMING STUDENTS!!! (and this is also probably common sense, just apparently not for me), think before you make your email something stupid 😭

I EDd to BU and I’ve heard a lot of people say that decisions usually are released the Thursday before the 15th. What time should I expect a decision?

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When do BU ED1 decisions come out? The website says until December 15th, but haven't they historically come out on a Friday? Please let me know!

-an anxious prospective student

ED applicant!

4.14 Weighted/3.93 unweighted 2 APS, both passed with an A Top 5%

Going test optional

Background

-Black Female

-Single parent household but have 13 step siblings…

-High finacial need

-1st generation

65+ Credit hours at Friends University (A private institution)

I could not take all APs due to being in a college program all 4 years.

INVOLVEMENT

-Speech and Debate President

-Student Body President

-Theatre Historian for 3 years

-my city public schools student board secretary

-Schools announcer

-Varsity Dance 3 years

-Varsity Cheer 1 year

-Yale young Global Scholars alumni

-Veterans Affairs hospital Escort

-Tobacco compliance volunteer

-YMCA social media manager 1 year

Awards

-3x 6A State Finalist in Original Oratory (Comp speech event)

-3x state qualifier for policy debate

-2x National Qualifier for National speech and debate tournament

-Honor roll every semester of highschool

-All-American Dancer

-YMCA job prep certification

-Questbridge National Match finalist

Work

-Hardees freshman year

-Mcdonald’s Sophomore/ Junior year

-Walmart Junior/senior year

Is anyone else’s portal down? I think it’s my schools internet but it’s presenting as down across all my devices.

What's happening are Ed 2 out

Two calls for an active shooter have been received by BU Police in the area of 855 Commonwealth Ave and 233 Bay State Road. Nothing has been discovered at this time, but there is a heavy police presence in these areas. An update will be sent out when we have more information.

Hi everyone, I was recently accepted to BU RD for CGS (Not sure if that is important).

I received my financial aid offer, in which I didn’t receive any aid, they said that I did not qualify for it. I also received no merit aid (I’m shocked I even got in)

Now, what makes this surprising is that my family makes ~$80k a year (family of 4), we own our home valued ~$750k (I don’t think that is relevant since it is our primary residence), own no other properties, and I have no money in a college fund. The tuition for a single year is around $94k. So i’m not exactly sure on how it could make sense to charge me more money than my family even makes.

Also for reference, Santa Clara University offered me $38k in financial aid, and my in-state school waived all tuition fees, so I believe I definitely qualify for aid. I submitted both the FAFSA and the CSS profile, so there is no other material I can submit to them.

I have read online that BU is allegedly stingy with their financial aid but is it really this bad? In essence, I’m asking if I have any basis for an appeal on my offer, especially because the first box on the appeal form is asking what changes have occurred since then, yet none have.

If anyone has any guidance or has been through a similar situation I am in desperate need of assistance please 🙏

Hey everyone! I got into BU for RD. I am thrilled and beyond grateful to God as it was my dream school. I had manifested this day for months now. Circumstances happened and I couldn't apply Early. My family is very pressured by the fees and I want to look for scholarships to ease their burden further. I am looking for roommates and PLEASE RECOMMEND ME SCHOLARSHIPS TO APPLY FOR!!

I start school in January for a semester and then have to go to New England or London? Tf is this? Is it b/c there are too many seats? What am I supposed to do in the fall? Boston Uni. Is a top choice for me and is uni. I got into in terms of acceptance rate and rank but this is kinda weird. Is this good or bad and does anyone have any tips/suggestions if someone has gone through something familiar?

I'm deciding between doing ED for Boston university or RD. it's a really good school with great connections and their ED acceptance rate is wayyyy higher than RD. I probably wouldn't get in RD. I haven't done an in person visit but i'm doing an online one. if i really love the online tour should I go ED? I don't really have a dream school but with my stats idk if id get into any rly competitive schools RD. i just think strategically id be most likely to get into a good school thru ED and i also can afford Bu. but also im scared i haven't thought it through enough and im not 100% id like it bc ive heard mixed things. pls help me out

The Trump administration has issued new federal guidance making it much harder for international students on F-1 visas to do internships while in university. BU can approve CPT (work authorization for internships) only if the internship is **required for every student—foreign and American —**in that degree program to graduate. Most degree programs at BU do not require internships to graduate.