I am deep. That is true. Honestly, for people who work with colleges regularly, it is absurd that people would use the wrong name of a school because they think it is clearer. If it were an issue, the colleges would change it themselves.
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I have worked with both schools and I had never seen that before CC.
It’s not the “wrong name” though, it’s just an abbreviation. NU is not the university’s name either.
UCB hates it when people use UCB… it’s supposed to be UC Berkeley or just Berkeley (or Cal in “athletic contexts”), but everyone here uses UCB and no one complains, do they?
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no complaint from me.
besides that i need to think each time I see it written that way.
and make sure I do not let group think on CC influence how I do things in my profession.
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My son is an undergraduate senior at NU. I have lots of direct knowledge of the undergrad experience, the co-op program and the job offers extended after graduation from co-op employers. Stop already. We disagree, period about the value of an NU education versus a state university.
Would my son have been successful at any college? Yes. Would he have had the same experience and opportunities? Not at all. NU knocked it out of the park in the 20-21 freshman year with a safe, on campus experience when most colleges, from Harvard to Northwestern to Rutgers, did not. Many more examples, but again pointless to argue with ridiculous statements.
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We disagree. Enough said.
We can certainly disagree about abbreviations but as I said above I’m in agreement with you about the value Northeastern provides through their co-op system. If you think we disagree on that as well, I’m unclear on what point.
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On Facebook parenting groups too.
I’ve toured both but that was the extent of my involvement at either NU. My eldest chose a different school.
Hey there are a lot of newbies on here that would be intimidated by all this arguing about who knows more and who is saying things wrong. Notice how so many posts start with some form of forgive me I’m new here? You people are too scary!
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Look for posts from people with actual knowledge and experience with a college rather than secondhand comments about a college and you will get good information.
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I agree – I do not think NU or any school is worth full fare or going into major debt over.
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Parent of two NU grads through masters – NU is prob more career focused than other schools because of coop but it is part of the culture, not a separate thing. The kids there are creative, active, engaged, etc. and they have a lot of fun (at least mine did.) However, it is NOT a traditional ra rah football tailgating rip roaring drunk frat party kind of fun. They live in the City and take advantage of it and also have their own smaller parties, trips, etc. Greek system is there but much more low key than traditional Greek although folks go to Harvard and other frat parties too if they are into that. I would also agree with someone else’s comment that my kids both found NU very collaborative. They celebrate each other and are inspired by each other. My sense is rather than totally focus on coop, I would say that the NU culture is one of experiential learning – actually applying what they are learning in a variety of activities - travel classes, international and domestic coops, research opps, clubs and other ways to engage whether for things in their major or just other interests. This is a group of doers…they do not wait for life to come to them.
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Northeastern used to go by NEU until about 2020 or 2021 and then switched to NU, so that is where the difference lies for many… habit.
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Again, Northeastern only started using NU rather NEU in 2020 or 2021 when my child was still there. Their emails are a @northeastern.edu domain now likely because NU.edu was taken.
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2018/2019 school year and a long story beyond that I was told.
As implied, since these are my customers - I have no choice but to describe things the right way. Truly do not care besides when people here share wrong info (correcting me wrong) or when I mess up professionally because I am use to reading the wrong stuff.
Overall NBD. I would say I do find it odd when people like to continue using wrong info. I guess that is not my biggest problem.
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I understand. People working for, or with, UCB in a professional context also get in trouble when they use the abbreviation UCB. That doesn’t stop everyone else from using it, though, and if you search for “UCB” on the berkeley subreddit you will see a lot of students making fun of the fact that the university tries to discourage this obvious and useful abbreviation.
I would hesitate to say the abbreviation UCB is “wrong,” though… it is simply not preferred by the university’s marketing and branding.
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I will tell them that when I make the mistake again.
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Aha, that would make sense. My kid was a 2020 admit.
I like that description- and it seems that would be the case at a school with experiential learning in its blood.
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Unfortunately, I couldn’t login to CC for some reason for the past few days, but I’m back now, and WOW what a ton of replies. There’s been a lot of good responses and discussion, but nobody has really touched main thing I mentioned in my original post. Let’s use UIUC Gies as an example, which is probably my favorite non-NU D’Amore-McKim option. For 2022, UIUC’s successful outcome rate (employment, grad school, military, etc.) was 98%, while NU somewhat obscured their rate, listing 9% still seeking/unsure of plans and 2% unsure of plans. UIUC’s average starting salary was very high for its region at $73,530 excluding signing bonus, while NU’s average starting salary (which was much lower than BC Carroll and BU Questrom) was $75,820 excluding signing bonus. In this case, NU’s (comparably) low starting salary is quite worrying for me. NU’s most common cities for graduates to work in were Boston, NYC, LA, Chicago, and San Francisco, while the most common city for UIUC was solely Chicago (which on average takes 80%+ of Gies grads). Even if we take NU’s cheapest common hiring city, which is in fact Boston as you’d expect, I’d need to be making ~$95,000 for it to be comparable to earning ~$75,000 in Chicago. With a lower successful outcomes rate and a significantly lower adjusted average starting salary, do any of you see why I’m not fully sold on the effectiveness and value of co-ops, or am I just crazy? For the NU/co-op stans in the thread (and I’ve definitely seen some), as originally asked, what am I/the data missing?
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