<p>@Northeasternkid</p>
<p>I have no gripes against Northeastern. I respect the school very much, as much as I respect other schools in Massachusetts (other than Harvard and MIT), such as UMass, WPI, BU, Holy Cross, Boston College, etc.</p>
<p>I never said there is anything weak about Northeastern; I was criticizing Boston University, which rejected me in spite of my 2200+ SAT score and top 10% because they are a shtihole. Northeastern is a fine school with many connections to good companies in the area like Analog Devices, Akamai, Microsoft, and others and I respect them a lot. Their campus is also very good and I know that Northeastern has done a lot in the last ten years to improve their reputation from a commuter school to a top 100 university and to develop an excellent co-op program that has become the model for other universities.</p>
<p>As for Northeastern being a lot harder to get into than WPI, I am assuming that you are basing this on the acceptance rates. However, WPI is ranked slightly higher than Northeastern and thier average SAT scores are a bit higher (maybe 50-100 points), even when you compare them to Northeastern’s Engineering college. WPI has a lot of industry connections just like Northeastern and also has an innovative project based curriculum. I believe that WPI is underranked as is Northeastern, while BU is over-ranked because of its decent graduate programs that mask the low quality and high price of thier undergrad education. I am not saying that WPI is the end-all-be-all of second tier engineering education (because it’s not) but I definitely thing the administration has made many mistakes in the last few years (like growing the class size by enrolling more students who can’t handle the curriculum) and that it is under ranked because of its focus in undergrad education research over emphasizing faculty-led graduate research and top academic scholars who don’t teach classes.</p>
<p>I got a similar package at Northeastern and WPI and I was strongly considering Northeastern and Umass amherst as well when determining where to go to college. </p>
<p>I just said to try other schools in MA which I thought were marginally stronger (I take back BU because it sucks), and I did not say anything negative about Northeastern so you don’t have to try to fight with me and defend your school. WPI has a lot of programs other than Engineering, such as its decent math, science, and computer science programs along with a good 5 year bs/ms program. I believe that Northeastern is a solid university but to say that it is the best college in MA other than Harvard and MIT is absurd. The pharmacy program is a grad program (although I know about the 6 year PharmD program) and most undergrad business programs other than maybe Wharton, MIT, NYU Stern, and Berkeley Haas and are not legit. There are a lot of top ranked LAC’s in Massachusetts. and Why are you attacking WPI? You are making yourself look foolish.</p>