I’m a student at NU so i can try an address the cons that you have listed. Yes, the weather can be annoying, but when it’s nice, it’s NICE. Yes, it’s a less traditional college experience, but 1) that’s what I love about it, and 2) you do still get a lot of the “traditional” college things. Parties, some fun sports events, fun university events, and traditions, traditional freshman experience, etc. I’ve had the same solid group of friends since freshman year, so it’s not hard to maintain friends. Can’t speak to NUin Boston but if she wants to study abroad NUin might be a great experience for her to study abroad and create a solid friend group. She can absolutely still graduate in 4 years with one or two co-ops.
About rankings, yeah it doesn’t matter too much but understand US News Rankings place more emphasis on graduating in 4 years, which yea around 50% of students will do 5 years and 3 co-ops, so it makes sense it may be placed lower.
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