I have been admitted to RPI and Northeastern honors program. I am currently a high school senior graduating this June.
My net price for RPI is 40k and it is 15k for Northeastern. I have heard that Northeastern is overall harder to get into than RPI and has a great CO-OP program. However RPI is an excellent engineering and tech school. I want to transfer to Cornell or Carnegie Mellon during after my freshmen or sophomore year in college but chances of that happening is slim according to transfer admission statistics. Eventually I want to go to Berkeley, Caltech, MIT, Stanford, or Georgia Tech for grad school. I know grad schools care about research, GRE, etc and even if I don’t go to grad school should I go to Northeastern or RPI?