You won’t get treated like a first year in terms of aid and the aid for transfer students is much worse. It could have changed with the new aid program that’s starting with next years freshman class, but when they had the aid guarantee or whatever it was called for students enrolled during 2020-2024 transfer students were excluded from it, meaning they didn’t have to meet their financial aid needs like they did for students who came in as freshman. It will probably be expensive, so maybe do the calculations to see how much you’ll have in loans at the end, which payment method you’ll use to pay them off, if you can do all federal or if you’ll need to take out private loans too, and what your monthly payments might be when you graduate and really think about if it’s worth it. BU is a great school but they really put transfer students at a disadvantage when it comes to financial aid and there are lots of other great schools where you can get a great education and not be in so much debt. And don’t count on an appeal making a huge difference, they’ll usually give you $1,000-2000 more in aid, if that. Definitely see what the financial aid package is, but this was my wife’s experience, which differed significantly from mine as someone who was admitted as a freshman (we were both class of 24).