BU VS. BC VS. Northeastern

SueD
Sun, 17 May 2009 09:39:14 +0000

rdsoxman5 wrote:

I went to Northeastern last year and while I did enjoy it and what it had to offer, the idea of 5 years and no time off really was a downer on me.



This is what turned my son off too and why NEU was at the bottom of his list. Even when his father and I suggested it would be no different than going to a regular 4 year school and working during the summers but with the added benefit of graduating with 1.5 years of experience, he saw it like you described - 5 years with no time off.

He’s going to BU in the fall and plans to major in Physics as well. It has been his top choice school all along; however, we needed a “Plan B” just in case, which is why NEU was considered. Your post is a confirmation of what he’d suspected and what his father and I had dismissed as irrelevant. Good thing he knows what he wants!