NEU honors program vs BU vs Tufts

Emily2007
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:49:50 +0000

I totally agree with eireann. I grew up in a super socially/politically active environment and a lot of my friends went to hipster intellectual LACs, so when I got to northeastern my biggest complaint was the lack of people like my friends from home–more activist types and people who were really intellectually curious.

But, also like eireann, I’m an older student and we came to NEU when things were just starting to get popular and attract a higher caliber of students. The younger classes are definitely smarter/cooler than my year is, and I think coming years will continue to be better.

Northeastern is a big and diverse school, so there are people of all types. We do tend to be a little more of the out-to-the-bars/attractive/ugg boot population (hey, you can pry my ugg boots off my cold dead corpse, and I’ve been known to stop by NEU bars at last call on friday and saturday, so…), there are definite intellectual/geek niches… you just may have to do some digging to find them. I think honors will make a big difference, though, there are a lot of students who turned down good schools for financial or other reasons, and they’re usually easy to find in honors or by getting involved in groups/clubs.

Lastly, I agree that students are mostly looking for post-grad employment rather than going on to grad/professional school. But I know a lot of people applying to grad school, and co-op looks just as good on a grad app as it does on a resume. I’m really set up to get into a good grad school solely based on my co-op work experience (I also already have job offers on the table, thank you, Northeastern).