Here’s an update for anyone who is reading this. My daughter is SO happy at Northeastern. She was completely undecided not only on type of college but also area of study at the beginning of the process. She landed on large, urban, east coast, but she still didn’t have a clue what she wanted to study. During the first semester, she was both housed and in classes with a group of undecided kids who also met regularly in a class for undecided kids. They went through many ways to make a decision - they kept a process of elimination chart, there were presentations from many departments, etc. She got very excited about architecture after hearing a presentation from an architecture professor. This is an area my family knows absolutely nothing about - we don’t know any architects, no idea what the work is like, etc. But she loved the presentation, she met with an advisor to map out a program, etc. This semester she is taking three architecture classes (two different kinds of studio and one history) and even 8am Calculus (I thought she was so traumatized by her high school calculus class that she would never take it again!). She is doing a one month architecture abroad in Barcelona this May, and the program includes a semester abroad in Madrid that is specific to architecture students. They graduate with almost enough hours (through the two 6 month co-ops) to be licensed in Massachusetts. In other words . . . there is a strong chance she could graduate with a job and a career. WOW! Let’s see how it goes at the end of the semester, but so far so good!
If she was reading this she would be aghast that I never mentioned the most important part of Northeastern. She is a huge hockey fan (and doesn’t care about football - she is tickled that Northeastern doesn’t have football because more sports energy gets devoted to hockey). Northeastern beat Harvard (her sister’s school) in the recent women’s beanpot matchup and we will never hear the end of it.