<p>Hello, I got accepted to the two colleges above, but I don't know which one to choose. For Northeastern, I got accepted to NU Program for the Fall 2014 term and on campus for Spring 2015.
I live only 15 minutes away from Rutgers, so it would cost a lot less than Northeastern. However, Northeastern is my dream college because of the co-op program and location. If I were to go to Northeastern, my student loans would be off the roof...but I want it so badly...
Which of the two is better for me?
Thank you in advance. :)</p>
<p>Imagine for a moment that you’re a 25 year old. You’ve been out of school for four years and have been working all kinds of shifts at your local community hospital. The irregular hours are getting old. Nursing’s starting to look a little less like what you’d hoped it would be. Your patients are very sick, at least the ones you see from one shift to the next, and you find that you’re not able to form therapeutic relationships with many of them because their hospital stays are brief most of the time. You start thinking about graduate school, but you have all this debt because you went to your dream college. Your fiancé isn’t that interested in your taking on more debt and you have a wedding to pay for and would like to have a house some day and kids, so you end up staying in that job or one just like it because 6 more years of nursing school debt hangs from your neck like an albatross. Are you going to be happy at 25? </p>
<p>Life is offering you the chance to make an important decision. Try to make a good one.</p>
<p>How much will each cost (actual number, after scholarships/grants, before any loan)?
What’s your parents budget?</p>
<p>Why would you think there is some thing inferior at Rutgers? There is nothing wrong with the program there. If it costs less, go for it. College is the first step for a kid to step into the society, you really don’t know where you will be end up with.</p>
<p>Just realized you said going to Northeastern would make you take up loans “through the roof”… in that case, Rutgers NB is a very good school and there’s no real choice there. If you have more than $5,500 in loans per year, NEU is absolutely not worth it.</p>
<p>If the prices were the same, I’d say the two schools are even. If Northeastern will cause you to talk a lot of loans, then it is a no-brainer to go to Rutgers. You can find internships to do instead of the co-op program.</p>
<p>I am in agreement here. If you’re facing debt with NEU, turn your back on it and go with Rutgers. By all means, avoid debt if you have a choice, and Rutgers is a good school.</p>
<p>Rutgers education will provide you with a great education at a bargain.
Think of all the nice things you can do with your income when you graduate, that you won’t be paying off loans for the next 10 years. Isn’t a nursing education filled with lots of practical experience anyway?</p>
<p>I’m an NU guy and my daughter just got in. If you’re talking serious debt, you’ll be sorry later. NU is great but it’s not standing alone. Go to NU if you can afford the difference - just to change the atmosphere if nothing else.But if you can’t - Rutgers!</p>