good luck on residency. i think i know of like 2 people who actually accomplished this - with like 75% of the people i met being out of state.
i LOVE boulder. I HATED CU. i didnt feel like anyone was there for me. i didnt think the teachers gave a shit. i didnt feel like i learned as much as i should have... but looking back on it (graduted 3 years ago) my business classes actually did give me hands on experience. icant talk for the other schools, but i did have a handful of "real world" knowledge and some experience working in groups with outside businesses. I can see that my degree has brought me a lot of knowledge that didn't seem like knowldge at the time. but i dont know of any friends outside the B school that did any group projects. working with groups is HUGE. you will have to do it. you will have to learn to work with people, and its relevant when you are trying to work on a real life project with someone who never had that experience. i struggled thorugh all my core classes and my cirriculum in the b school was pretty much set wihtout any room to explore any of my interests. I did all my base credits and a SHIT ton of business classes. I would have loved to take an interesting class - sex and gender or deviance in society ... but i didn't have time in my schedule for these classes.
And i would be VERY careful to make sure your credits transfer. I know a LOT of peole who transfered or came in with AP credits that were not applicable for whatever reason. CU is NOT cheap. like my out of state tuition was ~45k a year.
but i love boulder. its nice. people are nice. i can smoke pot pretty much anywhere. i met a lot of awesome freidns... but the all have pretty much moved away from the college town at this point. boudlers nice if you dont mind being sucked into the bubble.