<p>Northeastern:</p>
<p>Pros:
-Boston is a great city
-Very good reputation
-Good dorms
-Close to home</p>
<p>Cons:
-Dangerous area of Boston (?)
-city may be overwhelming
-have not heard much about environmental science program (my probable major)
-Lack of campus community because of the surrounding city (?)
-expensive (money not a huge factor though)</p>
<p>UVM:</p>
<p>Pros:
-Burlington is a nice town with many outdoor opportunities
-Good size
-Very good environmental programs</p>
<p>Cons:
-3.5 hours away
-cold weather
-nearest major city is 2 hours away (Montrael)
-questionable reputation
-small dorms</p>
<p>Any thoughts on these two schools? thanks</p>
<p>Honestly, NEU is not in the “dangerous” area of Boston unless you think the Huntington Theater, Symphony Hall, Wentworth Institute of Tech, and Museum of Fine Arts are all in that dangerous area of Boston.</p>
<p>One of my cousins went to UVM. If you are certain about environmental science it really has a good reputation in that field, especially compared to Northeastern. Northeastern is better in other areas. How sure are you about your major? One big problem with UVM is the weather. Check out the average temperature on a weather site and check out the crime rates for both campuses so you will have the info you need to make a decision. Be careful about deciding based on the dorms, not everybody gets into the nice dorms they show you on admitted students day. That goes for both (probably all) colleges.</p>
<p>what programs is Northeastern better at, and what majors are better at UVM? thanks</p>
<p>NU:
Engineering
Business
Pharmacy
Nursing
Communications</p>
<p>UVM:
Life Sciences</p>
<p>I have NEVER felt overwhelmed by Boston. I’m from a quiet suburb in Florida, and the closest thing I’ve ever come to living in a city is driving to the airport in Tampa. Boston is so easy to get used to. Honesty, my only problem with living in the city was having no car, which is easy to get over with cabs and the T.</p>
<p>In Vermont environment science takes on a near religious tone, which is not necessarily helpful in the real world after graduation.</p>
<p>I’ve never been to Vermont, so I could be completely wrong, but my roommate was from Vermont and her obsession with environmental science was pretty extreme. If thats an indictator of UVM (which she got into) then “near religious tone” would not be a hyperbole. Where I live in Florida, no one recycles and even if you ARE willing to bag up your recycling and drive it off somewhere, you have to pay to have people take it. When I moved to Boston, I did my best to change and recycle everything I thought I could (since in the dorms they have bins for recycling). Yet she would start into a twenty minute speech about people being inconsiderate towards the environment when I would forget to take the cap off of a plastic bottle before putting it in the recycling bin… Needless to say, she’s becoming an Environmental Science major.</p>