Notre Dame has prestige and great sports and a stronger alumni network than NEU. You don't have to give up prestige for school spirit and sports. ND vs. NEU: https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Northeastern+University&with=University+of+Notre+Dame |
This poster needs serious help. Jeff, please put us out of our misery. |
The only elite school in America with elite football and academics is Notre Dame. In the Power 5, obviously Stanford has elite academics but non-elite football. Michigan has elite football but non-elite academics. Duke has elite academics but non-elite football. So if you're looking at elite academics and elite football, you pretty much have only the Fighting Irish. Now, if you want awesome, fun football, the Harvard-Yale game is a boisterous affair. You get FUN football and elite academics at the same time. NCAA sports are changing rapidly. I wouldn't send a kid to a school purely for SPECTATING for elite football. If you do, you might as well send your kid to Alabama. |
I don't want to derail this thread, but how accurate is the Parchment listings? Where exactly do they get their data and is it reliable? For Boston University v. Northeastern, it says that 66% choose Northeastern, and 34% choose BU? Is that what is the general consensus is? https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Boston+University&with=Northeastern+University |
Notre Dame hasn't been consistently elite in football for decades. Stanford may suck right now, but in the last 15 seasons they've been to the Rose Bowl three times, the Fiesta Bowl, and the Orange Bowl. Notre Dame has only three such appearances. Outside football, Notre Dame athletics can't come close on the whole. |
DP No offense intended, but if you know someone considering choosing Northeastern over MIT and it’s NOT because (1) Northeastern has fully waived their tuition and housing costs and (2) MIT is forcing them to pay full tuition for themselves AND five other MIT students, intervene immediately. Something is seriously awry in their judgement. |
It is! Especially when the MIT folks turn it up. IYKYK. |
PP here. No, I get it, we have multiple alum whom are close to us, and are well familiar. Both strong engineering and CS and business. We know MIT will always win, and it is fodder for holiday fun at our house. |
That is the general consensus, IRL. Not so much in one or two posters heads |
PLEASE stop equating Northeastern with serious schools like NYU. NEU has done an admirable job and reverse-engineering USNews ranking systems and has invested their money well, thus ensuring the rise over the past 10-20 years. Other than that, it's still just a "good" school. |
I’m sorry but NYU was not what it is today 10 years ago. I’m not a NEU booster, but it’s not uncommon for schools to rise in prestige. |
Yes - NYU is another that rose from rags to riches |
What and where is Northeastern University? It sounds like the University of Phoenix or Southern New Hampshire University. Is it on-line or brick and mortar? |
Almost all schools started small and local. MIT was a trade school. |
It's like GMU. Oh wait, no it is not. |