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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did he get the Boston campus for Northeastern? [/quote]

This matters, apparently advanced classes not offered outside Boston, and some sequences require fall start which hurts those coming in with AP credit.[/quote]

No- global scholars but dc doesn’t have a lot of APs anyway[/quote]

I personally would avoid global scholars, three different campuses in 18 months is too crazy.

Given all the information you’ve provided, I’d go with WPI, assuming your kid liked it.[/quote]

If advanced classes are not offered at the other than Boston campuses, it does not matter, since the other than Boston campuses are first year only.

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Also, for CS, advanced classes at the other Northeastern campuses aren't really an issue.  Even with AP Comp Sci A, NEU might give you credit, but they don't have you skip required classes.  They want all CS majors to take the same classes first year.  These classes are offered through Global Scholars and are the same classes offered at the Boston campus.  We have been researching this for my kid offered Global Scholars.

Whether three campuses in 18 months is too much is a student specific question.  My kid took WPI off his list because of its location (but it is a good school!).[/quote]

Whereas WPI has an open curriculum and you can take whatever CS classes you want, as long as you fulfill the requirements of 5 different "buckets" you have to choose from. You can also take whatever humanities you want--for example, my kid took 3 different history classes (one about European Women and Technology, one of the history of technology, and i don't recall the third one), a philosophy, and a writing class.[/quote]

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