I know NEU is a great school, but how is it when it comes to grad school/med school? I know this thread is obviously bias, but I think I’m in the right place.
To current NEU students/alum/parents/anyone who knows: Is it hard to go to a top-tier (ivies and other tops) grad program/med school from Northeastern?
Thanks!
This is anecdotal but there was a student here on CC @nanotechnology who graduated from Northeastern a few years ago, She received a Marshall Scholarship for a master’s degree at Imperial College London and is now a Ph.D. student at Harvard Medical School. If you click on the @ you can read her posting history.
A lot depends on your classroom performance, what coops/research experiences you do and your other activities.
@TomSrOfBoston You seem to know a lot about college in general. Do grad schools typically care where you go for your undergrad?
Obviously going to HYP helps, and I know there’s a list of schools that feed into tops, but is that really not a LARGE factor?
Northeastern offers everything you need to get into grad school or medical school. It is up to you to take advantage of it. Experiential learning whether coop or research is another advantage. There are many paid research coops in the nearby Harvard Medical Area.
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In my experience, PhD programs care more about what you did in undergrad than where you went. If you’re at HYPSM, there’s a lot of top-notch research going on, which is why they are seen as having an advantage. But you can definitely get really good experience to apply to top grad programs at Northeastern. I used my co-ops to get a year and a half of full-time research experience during my undergrad, which is definitely not the norm. It allowed me to get a lot more immersive experience, which also resulted in really good letters of recommendation and preparation to do research independently in a PhD.
I know people from Northeastern who have gone on to programs at places like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, including MD/PhD programs.
(Side note - I am doing my PhD at Harvard, but not at the med school; I’m in computer science.)