<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Ive recently been accepted to both of these great Unis but I cant choose. Northeastern is considered more prestigious and is more highly ranked than Tulane, but Tulane has amazing parties and fraternities Northeastern doesnt have. Both prestige and the party scene are importantly to me, so which should I choose?</p>
<p>Thanks </p>
<p>Congratulations on your acceptances.</p>
<p>Tulane has plenty of prestige, too. The diff in prestige btw the schools is negligible. I’ve been very impressed with Tulane and would have sent my child there without qualms. it’s party reputation is earned, but it’s enhanced by the city it’s in.</p>
<p>Northeastern is also a fine school and Boston is a good college party town. You’ve the Red Sox right and Fenway right there, and the T can get you all over the region inexpensively. </p>
<p>Wait on the FA packages and see which one will be less expensive.</p>
<p>@jimmypage43:</p>
<p>In the Boston area, MIT is highly ranked for frat parties. The MIT frats are across the river from the main campus (i.e. the work hard part of MIT), not too far from BU & Northeastern.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Yea thanks, ive heard Boston does have parties, but that Mass. is very strict on alcohol, which is a bit of downer. The other thing is Northeastern’s Business school is ranked 22nd in the country whereas Tulane is 77th :/</p>
<p>that and two bucks will get you to the French Quarter on the bus.</p>
<p>the question is where are you going to do your better work. do you think someone who’s not a northeastern grad is going to hire you because your a northeastern rather than tulane graduate? really? we’re not talking wharton and tulane, are we? people are going to hire you because you have certain skillsets that they need and because they think you’ll fit into the group and because you have had internship experience with them or a rival and for a whole lot of other reasons besides the fact that you went to a certain college–unless we’re talking about IB, in which case neither school is going to help you break into that world. Employers care about what you can DO, not where you went to school. Plenty of deadbeats graduate from ivy schools. Don’t be a deadbeat as an undergrad and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>parents and applicants way way over-rate the importance of the alma mater to employers. in three years no one will care where you graduated from u/g except you and your classmates. </p>
<p>I’ve visited both… I prefer Tulane’s campus and academics to those of Northeastern, but Boston is so much better than NO</p>
<p>I feel as though Northeastern suffers from an inferiority complex to MIT and Harvard (BU and BC to a lesser extent)</p>
<p>Go to the accepted students weekends of both and see which one you like better in terms of fit. The two are about comparable in terms of academic prestige (probably Northeastern is a bit more so, but overall pretty similar). Northeastern doesn’t have much of a party atmosphere, and going out is a bit limited for the under 21 crowd in Boston. Both my older siblings go to Northeastern and the main nightlife is smaller parties with friends (20 or so people) and clubs. So if the frat house experience is essential to you, I’d recommend Tulane.</p>
<p>The only obvious benefit of Northeastern that I can think of is the co-op program (typically you can get 2-3 six month long internships). Since you mentioned you are a business student, I’ll mention that the top-earning NEU co-op is in the financial sector, earning a whopping $56 an hour. Obviously, this is really high, but a friend of my brothers is getting $27 an hour for a first time co-op.</p>
What school did you end up choosing?