At our school, I know a girl who is going to NEU, who had a choice of Rice and Emory among others. Our instagram school page shows the NEU bound kids, and most we've known since they were in elementary school.
They're all in the "smart" group, the same extracurriculars, etc. Among the younger crowd, whether you want to believe it or not, Northeastern is looked at as a very desireable school. NEU has a reputation of giving very good merit aid. And when schools cost $90k a year, that makes a big difference. However, tere aren't many students turning down Harvard, Yale, etc. for any school. Those schools have yields in the 80th percentile. But the same could be said of any other school not named HYP, Stanford, Princeton and Caltech. |
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Rice+University&with=Northeastern+University https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Northeastern+University |
It is the PPs resorting to name calling who can not stop. |
It’s harder to get into because of its admission shenanigans. Do your research. |
Why? There are a lot of people here interested in public universities and everything else that is available. This school is top 10 in a lot of positive lists. And since when do parents choose what their child considers? |
DP. Agreed with you until the top 10 reference. No, it is not. What is it with these marketers? Or, is this just kids trying to wind us up? I really wish the booster/marketer would stop the inflated claims. It is a fine school, leave it at that and move on! |
Yes. And it’s no more hype than any other college. I didn’t mention the health co-ops because I personally don’t know much about them. But I can’t think of a better place to do a co-op in the health field than Boston. They have a trauma hospital, they Dana Farber, Mass General, Tufts Health Center, Brigham & Women’s plus hundreds more in a 15 mile radius. It’s surpassing BU in a lot of ways. I don’t know why that bothers people. |
Not sure how reliable parchment is when the sample size is so small. It's been shown it has little validity for most comparisons. The same parchment says 60% choose Harvard, and 40% choose Northeastern. That figure isn't accurate. But it looks like 1/3 of the kids go to Northeastern and 2/3 go to Emory. Parchment also claims that 20% choose Emory over Harvard. I very seriously doubt that. Harvard's yield is 80%. And of the 20% who decline Harvard, the vast majority are doing so for Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, not Emory. Parchment also says that 2/3 of students choose Northeastern, and 1/3 choose Boston University. I would venture that the sample size is much larger and that probably is decently accurate. |
I would choose BU for communications, political science/international relations. Northeastern for comp sci, engineering, medical/health majors. |
+1. OP and friends have many issues - this is just one. |
For those looking for medical school, this is from Tufts University's Medical School:
Class of 2027 https://medicine.tufts.edu/academics/medicine/class-profile Undergrad Institutions Represented (schools contributing 4 or more students) Tufts University: 31 Northeastern University: 10 Boston College: 7 Johns Hopkins University: 7 Bates College: 6 Cornell University: 6 University of California-Los Angeles: 6 Washington University in St. Louis: 6 New York University: 5 Middlebury College: 4 |
You clearly didn't read the website and its notations about statistical confidence levels carefully. |
Impressive! |
NEU does NOT give good merit aid. Very few students get actual Merit. Know 5 kids (including my own) who got in and none got aid. |
If I ultimately wanted to go to medical school, I would choose NU (they don't go by NEU anymore) bc their students have an over 80% medical school acceptance rate. The national average for other colleges is just over 40%. The co-ops make their applications stand out. |