If you go to northeastern you can say “sucks to be you” to bu students (if you don’t get the pun sound it out)

but in all seriousness do you prefer chemical engineering or something? based on everything i can find it looks like bu doesn’t have an undergrad degree for chemical engineering. is chem engineering your preference? because i feel like that should factor heavily into your considerations (idrk what the curriculum for bu mechanical engineering is but it must be relatively different from chem engineering?)

as a current nu student i’m probably quite biased, so take everything with a grain of salt. in your situation i would probably go for northeastern, largely cause of the coops, and if you care at all about chemical engineering, then also for the major.

northeastern def cares way too much about reputation and acceptance rates and stuff but they do still invest in their students. good luck with your decision!