Just to correct something that seems to be a common mistake on CC is no one has to do 5 years at NU. Students can do 4 years with 2 co-ops or 5 years with 3 co-ops. No tuition is paid while on co-op and your salary offsets your housing costs, so there is no extra cost if you choose the 5-year route. The extra co-op would just give you an additional work opportunity to give you more info about what you do and don’t want to do and possible exposure to a potential post-grad employer. My son’s 20 AP credits should offset the need for summer classes, but the summers are 4 months long, so you could take 2 classes in May and June and still have July and August off.
I have degrees from SUNY Albany (with abroad program from Bing) and NU. Much preferred NU, but of course that was a long time ago. Good luck.