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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is applying to three Boston schools. I always wondered if BU and NEU (as well as BC, Tufts, Brandeis etc.) have to compete with MIT and Harvard students for internships??[/quote]

Not necessarily.  Different schools have different strengths.  I know families with a high number of engineers/cs that have many members who are graduates from Northeastern and MIT, specifically.  The other schools are known for different majors. A couple of my friends from Tufts undergrad ended up at MIT grad school. Brandeis is a strong business school.  BU has always been known for their Communications major (their famous alum are from Communications), much like Emerson (:this is where DCUM readers scramble to look up Emerson: LOL).  Harvard is kind of unto itself, as an ivy, but many say that MIT is a better school. Emmanuel and Simmons, for example, are womens schools that are known as not being as competitive.

Different firms in Boston are looking for different strengths, so if you have worked for several firms in Boston, you tend to know who is looking for what kind of graduate.  Of course, it is easy for people who have not spent time at the schools to conflate or confuse them. For example, for those outside Boston, and maybe not as familiar, it is easy to say "BC and BU are equal"  - they really are not - each would produce different candidates for different markets.  [/quote]

To add, BU used to see itself as "better" than Northeastern, about forty years ago, but in modern day, Northeastern has pulled out ahead. BU, BC and Northeastern were all, many decades ago, considered commuter schools. To answer your question, OP - assuming you are not a troll, but likely are, due to the weekly posts regarding the same schools, it depends on the major, and what kind of connections you want to get out of the respective school. [/quote]

BU and BC were not commuter schools 35 years ago. Can't imagine it was that much different 40 years ago![/quote]

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