Northeastern - worst admissions procedures on the planet

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have a junior with Northeastern on the list. We have visited. He has high stats. I was reading the NEU thread on EA over at CC some weeks ago and was surprised that there were high stats applicants offered non-Boston campuses -- who didn't ask for it. While I wonder what it takes to get Boston, the idea that a student intentionally says "only Boston" and the school offers some other campus anyway is irksome.

I’ve already discussed with my junior about the multiple options and acceptances and I agree it’s unclear what it takes to get Boston. I get how it’s annoying to state a preference and not have the school honor it - however, the flip side is that students can receive a non-preferred admission option at many colleges - I.e. I applied for fall and got spring or applied to CS but got arts and sciences etc. Even if it isn’t the preference, it will come down to what are the other choices (including how it relates to fit and money) weighed against how much do I want to attend the college that accepted me but not to my preferred major, timing, or location.

Applied to CS and got A&S is not the same thing as spring admit (NUIn) or fall sophomore admit (Global Scholars) or Oakland 4 year plan. That happens everywhere that has direct admit to majors. There is makes sense, they are willing to admit you and are offering a different major. But you are still on the main campus all 4 years.
Yes it's all about "how much do I want to attend that college", but why ask "do you want to study abroad freshman year/have differential learning experiences freshman year" if they do not plan to listen/use that information?

Are you serious? I think applying CS and getting A&S is way worse than applying to Boston and getting a spring admit or abroad campus. At least you get to study what you want. I would think for a student, studying what they want is way more important than what campus they end up. You think it's more important to which campus your student is at over what major? I would hope that my dc is not prioritizing location over major.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what the big issue is here. If you apply to Boston campus and they accept you for their abroad campus, just don't accept. It's not like you accepted admission thinking Boston and then they switched on you. What's the problem? My dc applied and did not mark that he was interested in other campus other than Boston. But he was accepted to NUin which is first semester abroad (only 1 semester, not over a year like pp said). He is actually thankful that he got that offer rather than a rejection. Either way, he's not going to take it because the school is too expensive for us, but this is really not something to get all worked up over. There really are other things in life that are more egregious that you may want to channel your energy into, op.

+1. If your kid gets an offer to start at a non-boston campus for Fall semester, you know they weren't a top applicant. You can just move on.

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One of the schools my kid applied to was Georgia Tech.
Got offered pathway program - basically next Fall admit after 1 year at somewhere else.
It thought it was better than reject. Thanks for the option, and no hard feeling at all.

Got direct admit to Northeastern, and attending.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the schools my kid applied to was Georgia Tech.
Got offered pathway program - basically next Fall admit after 1 year at somewhere else.
It thought it was better than reject. Thanks for the option, and no hard feeling at all.

Got direct admit to Northeastern, and attending.

Georgia Yech is a much better school if engineering, computer sciences, etc

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have a junior with Northeastern on the list. We have visited. He has high stats. I was reading the NEU thread on EA over at CC some weeks ago and was surprised that there were high stats applicants offered non-Boston campuses -- who didn't ask for it. While I wonder what it takes to get Boston, the idea that a student intentionally says "only Boston" and the school offers some other campus anyway is irksome.

I’ve already discussed with my junior about the multiple options and acceptances and I agree it’s unclear what it takes to get Boston. I get how it’s annoying to state a preference and not have the school honor it - however, the flip side is that students can receive a non-preferred admission option at many colleges - I.e. I applied for fall and got spring or applied to CS but got arts and sciences etc. Even if it isn’t the preference, it will come down to what are the other choices (including how it relates to fit and money) weighed against how much do I want to attend the college that accepted me but not to my preferred major, timing, or location.

Applied to CS and got A&S is not the same thing as spring admit (NUIn) or fall sophomore admit (Global Scholars) or Oakland 4 year plan. That happens everywhere that has direct admit to majors. There is makes sense, they are willing to admit you and are offering a different major. But you are still on the main campus all 4 years.
Yes it's all about "how much do I want to attend that college", but why ask "do you want to study abroad freshman year/have differential learning experiences freshman year" if they do not plan to listen/use that information?

Are you serious? I think applying CS and getting A&S is way worse than applying to Boston and getting a spring admit or abroad campus. At least you get to study what you want. I would think for a student, studying what they want is way more important than what campus they end up. You think it's more important to which campus your student is at over what major? I would hope that my dc is not prioritizing location over major.

+1

I agree with this, because some of the majors are allocated by location, now - which just one of the reasons why PP who claims "lesser" applicants are getting admitted is completely incorrect.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have a junior with Northeastern on the list. We have visited. He has high stats. I was reading the NEU thread on EA over at CC some weeks ago and was surprised that there were high stats applicants offered non-Boston campuses -- who didn't ask for it. While I wonder what it takes to get Boston, the idea that a student intentionally says "only Boston" and the school offers some other campus anyway is irksome.

I’ve already discussed with my junior about the multiple options and acceptances and I agree it’s unclear what it takes to get Boston. I get how it’s annoying to state a preference and not have the school honor it - however, the flip side is that students can receive a non-preferred admission option at many colleges - I.e. I applied for fall and got spring or applied to CS but got arts and sciences etc. Even if it isn’t the preference, it will come down to what are the other choices (including how it relates to fit and money) weighed against how much do I want to attend the college that accepted me but not to my preferred major, timing, or location.

I get all that, but for a high stats applicant who only wants Boston, we are not paying 80k. Nor 70k or 60k or 50k (after subtracting any merit such as NM, which applies here). I doubt Northeastern reads DCUM, but hey Northeastern admissions, if you are listening, if you can't offer Boston to my high stats kid who only wants Boston among the NEU options, please straight-up reject him.

Thinking out loud: how much value does NEU have if one or more years are not in Boston? Does a selection of "only Boston" identify students who really don't care about NEU but merely want to attend school in Boston? Yes, perhaps it does. Sorry NEU, outside of Boston, as a parent I struggle to see the full value in NEU. Maybe for 40k, but there's no way that would be the price after merit. And therein lies the rub: other applicants (without the high stats?) may see more value than we do, i.e., they are willing to pay full price AND live elsewhere for a year or more. (Fine for them.)

What you fail to accept is that Northeastern is only accepting high stats kids, and they still choose to attend. Why does that bother you so much?

It doesn't. What bothers me is the sense that Northeastern is yield-protecting high stats kids in offering other campuses they did not select, at least from some of the responses over at CC. (No one seems to know what kids are getting offered Boston and what their stats look like; it is not a foregone conclusion that the high stats kids are located there.)

Keep in mind that "acceptances" for campuses the applicant did not select are not counted as admitted students in the CDS, which while is as it should be, makes the reported acceptance rates ambiguous.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the schools my kid applied to was Georgia Tech.
Got offered pathway program - basically next Fall admit after 1 year at somewhere else.
It thought it was better than reject. Thanks for the option, and no hard feeling at all.

Got direct admit to Northeastern, and attending.

Georgia Yech is a much better school if engineering, computer sciences, etc

Depends which employers you query.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. I have a junior with Northeastern on the list. We have visited. He has high stats. I was reading the NEU thread on EA over at CC some weeks ago and was surprised that there were high stats applicants offered non-Boston campuses -- who didn't ask for it. While I wonder what it takes to get Boston, the idea that a student intentionally says "only Boston" and the school offers some other campus anyway is irksome.

I’ve already discussed with my junior about the multiple options and acceptances and I agree it’s unclear what it takes to get Boston. I get how it’s annoying to state a preference and not have the school honor it - however, the flip side is that students can receive a non-preferred admission option at many colleges - I.e. I applied for fall and got spring or applied to CS but got arts and sciences etc. Even if it isn’t the preference, it will come down to what are the other choices (including how it relates to fit and money) weighed against how much do I want to attend the college that accepted me but not to my preferred major, timing, or location.

I get all that, but for a high stats applicant who only wants Boston, we are not paying 80k. Nor 70k or 60k or 50k (after subtracting any merit such as NM, which applies here). I doubt Northeastern reads DCUM, but hey Northeastern admissions, if you are listening, if you can't offer Boston to my high stats kid who only wants Boston among the NEU options, please straight-up reject him.

Thinking out loud: how much value does NEU have if one or more years are not in Boston? Does a selection of "only Boston" identify students who really don't care about NEU but merely want to attend school in Boston? Yes, perhaps it does. Sorry NEU, outside of Boston, as a parent I struggle to see the full value in NEU. Maybe for 40k, but there's no way that would be the price after merit. And therein lies the rub: other applicants (without the high stats?) may see more value than we do, i.e., they are willing to pay full price AND live elsewhere for a year or more. (Fine for them.)

What you fail to accept is that Northeastern is only accepting high stats kids, and they still choose to attend. Why does that bother you so much?

It doesn't. What bothers me is the sense that Northeastern is yield-protecting high stats kids in offering other campuses they did not select, at least from some of the responses over at CC. (No one seems to know what kids are getting offered Boston and what their stats look like; it is not a foregone conclusion that the high stats kids are located there.)

Keep in mind that "acceptances" for campuses the applicant did not select are not counted as admitted students in the CDS, which while is as it should be, makes the reported acceptance rates ambiguous.

There is a ton of bad information on CC.

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Anonymous wrote:I really can’t believe people take this con job of a college seriously. Knowing all the games they play

I don’t know if I is a con job but it was a commuter school that took everyone 25 years ago, has the school really improved that much?

Not according to people I know. When their parents attended in the 50's - back then BU, BC, Northeastern and Harvard were all commuter schools. So?

Mason is still a commuter school. So?

Seriously there was zero prestige to Northeastern back then and no BU and BC we’re never commuter schools.

GMU hasn’t been a commuter school since 2010 when Carnegie reclassified it as a residential college. All first year students are required to live on campus.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what the big issue is here. If you apply to Boston campus and they accept you for their abroad campus, just don't accept. It's not like you accepted admission thinking Boston and then they switched on you. What's the problem? My dc applied and did not mark that he was interested in other campus other than Boston. But he was accepted to NUin which is first semester abroad (only 1 semester, not over a year like pp said). He is actually thankful that he got that offer rather than a rejection. Either way, he's not going to take it because the school is too expensive for us, but this is really not something to get all worked up over. There really are other things in life that are more egregious that you may want to channel your energy into, op.

+1. If your kid gets an offer to start at a non-boston campus for Fall semester, you know they weren't a top applicant. You can just move on.

This is incorrect information. See above.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you expect from that school?

Great education and Excellent outcomes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Why do think it's popular among high stat kids??

Only because they believe USNWR - any on me old enough knows Northeastern has been throwing millions at climbing those rankings. The education hasn’t changed one bit. Locals and even grad school faculty just shake their heads because they know this is all manufactured and that these kids snd parents are getting suckered.

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Anonymous wrote:I really can’t believe people take this con job of a college seriously. Knowing all the games they play

I don’t know if I is a con job but it was a commuter school that took everyone 25 years ago, has the school really improved that much?

Not according to people I know. When their parents attended in the 50's - back then BU, BC, Northeastern and Harvard were all commuter schools. So?

Mason is still a commuter school. So?

Seriously there was zero prestige to Northeastern back then and no BU and BC we’re never commuter schools.

GMU hasn’t been a commuter school since 2010 when Carnegie reclassified it as a residential college. All first year students are required to live on campus.

2010 was not very long ago, compared to the 1950's (three generations). And many GMU first year students are allowed to opt out of living on campus requirement, which they do. Today, GMU is still extremely commuter friendly, unlike most Boston schools, which don't even have parking.

You may wish to start your own thread.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you expect from that school?

Great education and Excellent outcomes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Why do think it's popular among high stat kids??

Only because they believe USNWR - any on me old enough knows Northeastern has been throwing millions at climbing those rankings. The education hasn’t changed one bit. Locals and even grad school faculty just shake their heads because they know this is all manufactured and that these kids snd parents are getting suckered.

Why is your issue with a school you have no connection to? Who gets this up in arms about a university? Northeastern is a fine school. Maybe not for you or your kids.

It should not bother you where other kids choose to go to school. If you or your kids did not go to the school that you or your kids wanted, that is an issue for you to address in private.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea what the big issue is here. If you apply to Boston campus and they accept you for their abroad campus, just don't accept. It's not like you accepted admission thinking Boston and then they switched on you. What's the problem? My dc applied and did not mark that he was interested in other campus other than Boston. But he was accepted to NUin which is first semester abroad (only 1 semester, not over a year like pp said). He is actually thankful that he got that offer rather than a rejection. Either way, he's not going to take it because the school is too expensive for us, but this is really not something to get all worked up over. There really are other things in life that are more egregious that you may want to channel your energy into, op.

+1. If your kid gets an offer to start at a non-boston campus for Fall semester, you know they weren't a top applicant. You can just move on.

This is incorrect information. See above.

Please show me actual evidence that top applicants are being funneled to other campuses over lesser applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:I really can’t believe people take this con job of a college seriously. Knowing all the games they play

I don’t know if I is a con job but it was a commuter school that took everyone 25 years ago, has the school really improved that much?

Not according to people I know. When their parents attended in the 50's - back then BU, BC, Northeastern and Harvard were all commuter schools. So?

Mason is still a commuter school. So?

Seriously there was zero prestige to Northeastern back then and no BU and BC we’re never commuter schools.

Who cares about back then.
Most colleges started small.
Many top 20 colleges had acceptance rate of 50 60 70% back rhen. So what. Present is important.

U Chicago had an acceptance rate over 70% in 1993. This board worships UC.

This is the thing. Schools like UChicago and USC have really climbed the ranks but people have now acclimated to it so nobody complains. Chicago uses all kinds of gimmicks to climb the ranks. USC has very similar global campuses/programs where kids start off there and then come to CA later. Wash U gives out fee waivers to tons of kids. Nothing that Northeastern is doing is that different than what many other schools do or have done. The difference is that Northeastern's popularity is more recent so people are having a hard time adjusting to its selectivity. That is causing a lot of hate on Northeastern because people believe they should be admitted. And then all these threads about Northeastern, honestly in my opinion, only helps it because it's publicity. That's how Trump got elected. The news couldn't stop covering him even if it was to say negative stuff. But really, people apply to schools they have heard of. And threads like this where OP is coming across like a complete helicopter parent, on the kid's email, hysterical over a fairly benign letter ... OP is coming across pretty unhinged. That is not giving OP much credibility.