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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why this is such a heated topic here. There's no question that NEU has increased in prestige in the last decade. The acceptance rate is 5%, that alone shows that it is in high demand right now. Whether it's top 10, 20, 50 is up for debate, but based on what I'm hearing from DC it is easily in the same consideration set as the lower ivies, top publics, vandy, washu, etc. I personally know a student who took NEU over Cornell this cycle for computer science specifically for the co-op program, even though NEU is more expensive. Students are saavy these days and know how important it is to get job experience.[/quote] I went to school in Boston 25 years ago and that’s the reason I didn’t consider it, the co-op. But now it’s valuable to computer science, engineering students and others involved in an ever changing field. I know the history. It was a school for locals, for mostly men years ago that had to work so they went at night. I saw a graduation video from the early 60s and the program was huge. The school lifted a lot of locals out of low income jobs. Business management was big back then. They now excel in their engineering and computer science majors in a high tech city with many big hospitals and well known companies. [/quote] I am not sure if it is all hype or not, but purportedly it has a better placement rate for med school than Boston University The co-op program alllows that part of the med school application to stand out. I guess med schools are looking at work in a health field as a big positive, and in lower socio-economic settings even more so. The Northeastern health co-ops take advantage of that I guess.[/quote] Yes. And it’s no more hype than any other college. I didn’t mention the health co-ops because I personally don’t know much about them. But I can’t think of a better place to do a co-op in the health field than Boston. They have a trauma hospital, they Dana Farber, Mass General, Tufts Health Center, Brigham & Women’s plus hundreds more in a 15 mile radius. It’s surpassing BU in a lot of ways. I don’t know why that bothers people.[/quote] I would choose BU for communications, political science/international relations. Northeastern for comp sci, engineering, medical/health majors. [/quote]
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