I came across this video which appears to be intended for incoming faculty. It explains how experiential learning works and especially the connections between coop and the academic experience.
https://vimeo.com/179226303
Some students and parents here on CC have complained that at campus visits or at admitted students days there was too much talk of experiential learning at the expense of discussing academics. Northeastern is a unique school and they want potential students to realize what the Northeastern experience will be.
Fantastic video. Thanks for sharing
Great video! Thank you for finding it and posting the link.
Thanks for posting.
Why does Northeastern seem too good to be true? Is it all a big hoax?
@coterie If you read a lot on CC you’ll find that many posters very much prefer the LAC method to Research University/Pre-professional type methods of schools like NEU. They believe undergrad is for exploring very broadly across all types of academic courses, and kids should really only think about professional application of their studies in Grad school. “That’s what Grad School is for” is a common comment. These types of students/parents would not like NEU and likely look down on it. They generally look down on any preprofessional majors except Engineering (and sometimes C/S gets a pass, for some reason). They would not want their students spending 1 year- 18months doing full time work during college, and prefer the traditional college experience that you get at many LACs and universities with a large core curriculum.
For example, I can’t see a student having both University of Chicago and NEU as their top choices. They are on different wave lengths.
@suzyQ7 Harvard finally admitted a few years ago that they offer engineering when the Division of Applied Science became the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Engineering majors had long been offered but they just didn’t call it such.
@suzyQ7 - funnily enough, one of my good friends from undergrad actually had those as his top choices and ended up picking Northeastern because of scholarships.
@suzyQ7 @TomSrOfBoston @nanotechnology (newbie here)Would you say, then, that a student has to really hustle at NU to get the academic depth of a LAC? I ask because I think my kid is really torn between the two modes. Actually, I think he ultimately fits the LAC profile more, but I am not the one going to college, after all.
@binky17 At Northeastern academics are linked to your future career. Even in the humanities and social science a student will be thinking how is this major/course preparing me for my future, whatever that future might be. The traditional liberal arts education of spending four years contemplating theories and ideas with no regard for their application is not what Northeastern is about. I am not sure how that relates to academic depth though.
Perhaps others can chime in on this.
Northeastern just uploaded this video explaining coop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3nijraEsQ
I’m not sure if this addresses any of your concerns, but we seem to stress often that class prepares us for co-op and outsiders seem to believe that we are entirely professionally focused. However, what’s often forgotten is that we also use co-op to prepare for class. In upper-level classes, students are frequently asked to relate their experience to their past co-ops and the level of discussion that can occur with such a wide variety of experiences and backgrounds is much more elevated than that of a typical college class.
For what it’s worth, the Honors program seems to offer a much more serious academic environment within the school as well. It is partially because the Honors program seems to have very few international students with poor English skills which is common outside Honors, but even still the discussions in my Honors classes have been a notch above.
@novafan1225 well, we shall see if my son gets in first. He has good stats but who knows these days. One thing I am curious about: when people post scores here for NU, are they posting their superscore? I know scores aren’t everything, but even one point higher seems to matter to well-versed CC’rs. My son’s superscore is a 35, but regular composite is 34… which does one post here? Thanks for clarifying!
@binky17 To be honest, I rarely read chance threads and when I read results threads it’s a lot of skimming. In my experience, a poster will mention if they’re posting a superscore and otherwise it’s assumed they’re posting their best single-sitting. NU does superscore I believe.