Undergrad decision - My son was accepted for mechanical engineering to these schools:

Northeastern
Lehigh
Villanova
Case Western Reserve
University of Minnesota

Which would you choose and why?

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Northeastern for sure. Their co-op program is incredibly unique and valuable especially for engineering

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North eastern has a coop program and honestly it is so valuable. I got my first coop my sophomore year at a fortune 50 company in the engineering space. They offered to keep me part time through college paying me $30 an hour. Before I graduated they signed me on for 70k plus stocks and sign on bonus. 1 year out of college I had 4 years of experience on my resume and came over to consulting making 120.
Coop is a huge advantage and gives students all the soft skills like how to write emails, set up calendar invites. It also teaches you real tools used in the industry.

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Sounds like a winne

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It’s undergrad. Which one is least expensive? If he does well, no one will care once he starts working.

K2 We are from Chicago.

Northeastern accepted him with the “NU In” program which means his first semester was supposed to be abroad, but with the COVID-19 situation it looks like it will be in Boston instead of Dublin, London or another city. With COVID-19 it looks like it will be in Boston instead. I think most schools have study abroad options (some better than others).

We originally set out to fully pay for undergrad for our kids (minus a little bit of loans that we would pay if they have a good GPA), but if we ended up with “extra” we might apply it to grad school if he pursued that.

The motivation is really to let them go to whichever school they want, not limiting their choices based on cost. We also don’t want to give them a financial incentive to go to an inferior school.

Villanova by a long shot

This is hilarious to me because I grew up in that part of PA and ‘Nova had the rep that it lived up to in the mid 1980s as a huge party school so to hear it described as “no fun” is just so not at all my (albeit outdated) experience. Lehigh ftw imho for engineering.

I went on a recruiting trip to Villanova a long time ago. Totally Villa No Fun. I think there were more rules about being in a female dorm after a certain hour and general rules about no fraternization and what will hey you kicked out than there were at the Service Academy I wound up going to.....

It was a lifetime ago and I am sure many things change but I would think long and hard about that place if I wanted a “ traditional college experience”...

UPDATE: My son was just pulled off the waiting list for Boston University. Any thoughts on BU in relation to his other choices?

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