<p>I know rankings don't mean everything, but I got accepted into pittsburgh university with early assurance into their pharmacy program. Pittsburgh University's pharm program is ranked a bit deal higher than Northeastern's pharm program, but I'm leaning more towards NEU.
Based on these assumptions, do you think I would have a good chance at being accepted into NEU's pharm program? I applied regular decision,</p>
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<p>I’d say you’ll be accepted in to NEU. But even besides Pharmacy, I think Pittsburgh is overall a slightly more prestigious school. But the Northeastern Campus is beautiful. :X</p>
<p>indeed it is. I’m hoping scholarships and financial aid will cover a large sum of the expensive NEU tuition. beautiful campus, an awesome college city, great sustainability and student life.</p>
<p>NEU’s co-op program can’t be touched, though. I think that weights it higher than Pitt for getting good jobs after graduation. I’ll be that’s true in Pharmacy, too.</p>
<p>I smiled when I saw this post as it’s been my son’s decision to make since November. From the start of the process after visits to several schools NEU was #1 and Pitt was #2. Meanwhile, because of rolling admission he has been accepted with conditional acceptance in Pharmacy, Honors College and has been offered a full tuition scholarship for four years to Pitt. We are waiting to hear from NEU. We have visited Pitt again and met with a rep from their school of Pharmacy. We were so impressed with their program, and the school as a whole. It is a great school for any type of medical field. They don’t have a co-op program per say, but you have the opportunity to do research starting in your Freshman year. We were also pleasantly surprised with the City of Pittsburgh. There is a lot to offer and is much easier to get around than Boston. My son likes both cities after visiting so he’s very comfortable with being in either one.<br>
So, even if he gets $20k a year from NEU as a scholarship (which would be on the high side), that still leaves 4 years at about 30K and 2 years at about 50K so 130k
Pitt is 4 years at 10K and 2 years at 35K so 80K. I do realize that either school may offer scholarship money for years 5 and 6 so these are very rough numbers.
When you consider Pharmacy students regardless of the school they attend have nearly 100% employment, it would be hard to justify NEU over Pitt financially.<br>
BTW-- our next door neighbor is a Freshman at Rutgers in the Pharmacy program and loves it. She’s on an athletic scholarship.</p>
<p>Spending summers in co-op or school, however. would also mean that I can’t work a summer job to help ease tuition costs. This is getting to be a pretty tough decision…</p>
<p>dream2rutgers, you earn money during co-op, but not enough to really ease the tuition costs. I think you earn more than working at a grocery store or something though.</p>
<p>I am having the same exact problem! I narrowed down my pharmacy school choices to Northeastern and UPitt (both honors) but still really need help deciding I’m visiting UPitt again but not sure if I’ll have a chance to visit Northeastern again. Any tips or insight would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Northeastern
good- CO-OP, love boston, tons of things to do, friends attending nearby schools, great campus and international village
bad- high cost of living, more expensive tuition even though 20k/yr scholarhsip, far away from home</p>
<p>UPitt
good- instate tuition and 2k/yr scholarship, cheaper cost of living, closer to home, higher pharm school ranking, can take classes at drexel and carnegie
bad- prefer boston over pittsburgh, seems like not as much to do and no co-op</p>
<p>wow 011lxu I’m in the same situation as you, even the same scholarship amounts. </p>
<p>It’s gonna be hard for me to justify NEU over UPitt, seeing as how UPitt seems to have stronger programs (I’m going undecided but leaning towards the sciences). The only edge NEU has is the Co-Op and Boston.</p>
I’m visiting UPitt again but not sure if I’ll have a chance to visit Northeastern again. Any tips or insight would be greatly appreciated!</p>