<p>It’s a good thing. Since Northeastern doesn’t operate on their endowments (like Harvard or something), they need to keep the school popular and advancing in order to pay the bills. </p>
<p>With the four year/two co-op option they will get more applicants who come in with lots of AP credit and who want the awesomeness of co-ops, but want to go to grad school afterwards and therefore don’t want to spend 5 years here.</p>
<p>(That being said, I’m still not sure the benefits of splitting CAS. I’m Econ/Math, so I’ll be in two colleges, and none of my advisors can explain to me how that’s going to affect me at all… My two co-op advisors haven’t even decided who I’m going to stay under.)</p>