15% Increase in Freshman Applications

neuchimie
Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:26:54 +0000

To the above poster:

In my experience, Northeastern is either a) confused with Northwestern so people get really excited but when you point out they are wrong they assume you go to a bad school or b) totally unheard of so people again assume you go to a bad school.

And then suddenly, once you start going here, everyone knows someone who knows someone who went here and has some amazing co-op story to tell. You start coop with the most incredible employers in the industry and meet people who have been working there ten years who WENT to northeastern and did the coop program. You go home for a short break in the winter, and you sit around listening to all your high school friends complain about how they are graduating in a year and they don’t know what they want to do and they are just now realizing they should probably do an internship but they have no idea how to start one, and then you tell them about how you are having trouble fitting everything in your resume on one page. And then you graduate, and get a job without too much heartbreak, and all those loans your high school friends who went to state schools made fun of you for are manageable because you didn’t start out at some bottom level practically-internship level pay.

And then you laugh, remembering way back when, when you were worried that it wasn’t a good idea to go to Northeastern because people didn’t really know about it or get excited about it.

So I’m glad you’re happy with your decision.