Choose carefully!

Introduction
BU serves highly motivated and independent students very well. There is a wealth of resources available for such students. However, that group is not in the majority among BU undergraduates, so you must be ready to prove yourself repeatedly as you go.BU has brilliant strengths and glaring weaknesses; be sure you're well positioned to take advantage of the former and skirt the latter before deciding to enroll.

Campus Life and Social Life
Social life is very sectionalized by college or school of the university after the first year (when everybody's tossed together in the dorms). Advertisement
Academics
The specialized programs at BU are generally the best: COM, CFA, UNI, SPH (graduate level), SMG. The faculty in the humanities are very respectable, but classes are way too big. If you're undecided about your academic path, BU may not be the place to go as it's so large that if you switch departments, you may find that you have to start meeting profs and classmates from scratch, which is a problem academically as well as socially.

Student Body
There's no such thing as a typical student at BU. Types do exist within the schools and colleges, e.g. stupid rich kids in CGS, antisocial workaholic extroverts like myself in CFA, linguistically challenged people with drinking problems in ENG, loud people in COM, bookish people in UNI. The poorer the smarter at BU, as need-based grants are competitively awarded according to academic merit, and CGS isn't need-blind.

In Closing...
BU can be an excellent choice for the driven, intelligent, passionate student; the place is already chock-full of people who are none of the above, and I believe BU serves such people poorly, so I don't recommend it to them.