Northeastern in Boston

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people get angry at colleges LOL
I have three kids in colleges. They received all sort of decisions - accepted, deferred, denied, waitlisted, and alternate path admission

For example, one offered an alternate path admission by Georgia Tech. Basically 1 year somewhere else then to the main campus.
We thought that was obviously better than reject, and kept that option in hand for a year, and threw it away.
One was waitlisted by UVA(although VA schools were at the bottom of the list). So kid had option to go to Wise campus for a year and to the main campus.

At the end, they all were very satisfied with the schools they ended up attending, and so no hard feelings for other schools at all.

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Let me guess - you manage to control yourself and not come to DCUM to voice your anger at any or all of those schools, because you are an adult, and you behave accordingly.

I have never heard of a school that does not have an additional campus, and would be concerned if a school I was considering did not, in this day and age. I also don't gauge which schools allegedly say what about what those schools do and do not do. I am not even as vested in my own DCs school - I can't imagine being that vested in a school that rejected us.

You never heard of a school with only one campus? Let me introduce you to a Princeton, Yale and Harvard, as well as 95 percent of colleges in this country.

You are incorrect. You will have to do your own homework. I do see why you are upset, however.

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Raising its profile on purpose is a trigger for sure but I think a lot of it is elitism, honestly. A previously middle class/partially blue collar institution getting big for its britches is really unsettling for people. I know a t10 alum whose (smart and good but not great) student was rejected and they are completely deranged about it. They really can’t believe that a school that when they think of as so far “beneath” them is now rejecting their (pretty good) student.

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me we are not applying. But people are allowed to comment on school threads and share opinions.

Of course! It just seems like some people have a weird intensity aboutan institution they aren’t connected considering or don’t have experience with. I genuinely cannot imagine being this strongly in a positive or negative way about some random school! I mean, I have less negative feelings about a grad school where I was egregiously sexually harassed so it tbh I just find it curious and a bit confusing.

I think Tulane sometimes invokes a similar response for the same reason, it’s the other school well known for manipulating its admissions data and trying to game the ratings. The NE President actually bragged about doing it.

It’s still pretty weird. Columbia was put in unwr time out for actually lying, for example.

NEU never lied about it, but OP wants to insist otherwise - while also neglecting how many other schools have additional campuses, and do they exact same thing. It seems very important to OP to keep banging their head against a wall, but expecting different results - ie: the epitome of insanity. There are not nearly as many threads started by OP about other schools, except on occasion to try to detract from OP's multiple NEU posts, which is what PPs rightfully find a peculiar pattern.

I amdefinitely not op, you could ask Jeff to verify and end this paranoid fantasy right now. However, since you believe “many other schools have additional campuses and do the exact same thing,” I think you prefer to live in a world of delusion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Raising its profile on purpose is a trigger for sure but I think a lot of it is elitism, honestly. A previously middle class/partially blue collar institution getting big for its britches is really unsettling for people. I know a t10 alum whose (smart and good but not great) student was rejected and they are completely deranged about it. They really can’t believe that a school that when they think of as so far “beneath” them is now rejecting their (pretty good) student.

You are living in 1975.

And tell your "t10 alum friend" to maybe get a hobby.

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me we are not applying. But people are allowed to comment on school threads and share opinions.

Of course! It just seems like some people have a weird intensity aboutan institution they aren’t connected considering or don’t have experience with. I genuinely cannot imagine being this strongly in a positive or negative way about some random school! I mean, I have less negative feelings about a grad school where I was egregiously sexually harassed so it tbh I just find it curious and a bit confusing.

I think Tulane sometimes invokes a similar response for the same reason, it’s the other school well known for manipulating its admissions data and trying to game the ratings. The NE President actually bragged about doing it.

It’s still pretty weird. Columbia was put in unwr time out for actually lying, for example.

NEU never lied about it, but OP wants to insist otherwise - while also neglecting how many other schools have additional campuses, and do they exact same thing. It seems very important to OP to keep banging their head against a wall, but expecting different results - ie: the epitome of insanity. There are not nearly as many threads started by OP about other schools, except on occasion to try to detract from OP's multiple NEU posts, which is what PPs rightfully find a peculiar pattern.

I amdefinitely not op, you could ask Jeff to verify and end this paranoid fantasy right now. However, since you believe “many other schools have additional campuses and do the exact same thing,” I think you prefer to live in a world of delusion.

I am sorry for you that the truth is not what you come here for.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Raising its profile on purpose is a trigger for sure but I think a lot of it is elitism, honestly. A previously middle class/partially blue collar institution getting big for its britches is really unsettling for people. I know a t10 alum whose (smart and good but not great) student was rejected and they are completely deranged about it. They really can’t believe that a school that when they think of as so far “beneath” them is now rejecting their (pretty good) student.

You are living in 1975.

And tell your "t10 alum friend" to maybe get a hobby.

I wasn’t defending it-I think it’s flat out crazy and embarrassingly snobbish. I’m just offering a hypothesis about some of what’s going on with such seemingly inexplicable vitriol in a small group of people.

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me we are not applying. But people are allowed to comment on school threads and share opinions.

Yet here you are, again and again and again. You are too vested in this school, to not have an interest in your having been denied acceptance. Your lying about it is of no consequence to the rest of us, but you look more than a little foolish.

Are you brain dead? There are way more than one of us in this thread, and I am not op.

HIGH FIVE! Honestly I worry about this person who thinks someone is out to get NEU. Who even cares that much? It's even more bizarre than their admissions.

-- Definitely not the OP and not this person so thats 3 of us

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DP here and I fully understand there is a group of really fired up northeastern haters-I think all of you are all a bit off! It’s not disliking it or thinking you or your child don’t want to apply or attend, it’s the weird intensity that freaks people out. It takes all kinds though so please carry on!

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Anonymous wrote:Raising its profile on purpose is a trigger for sure but I think a lot of it is elitism, honestly. A previously middle class/partially blue collar institution getting big for its britches is really unsettling for people. I know a t10 alum whose (smart and good but not great) student was rejected and they are completely deranged about it. They really can’t believe that a school that when they think of as so far “beneath” them is now rejecting their (pretty good) student.

You are living in 1975.

And tell your "t10 alum friend" to maybe get a hobby.

I wasn’t defending it-I think it’s flat out crazy and embarrassingly snobbish. I’m just offering a hypothesis about some of what’s going on with such seemingly inexplicable vitriol in a small group of people.

I have to agree, and it is obvious how little OP and their spouse know about NEU.

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Anonymous wrote:DP here and I fully understand there is a group of really fired up northeastern haters-I think all of you are all a bit off! It’s not disliking it or thinking you or your child don’t want to apply or attend, it’s the weird intensity that freaks people out. It takes all kinds though so please carry on!

The intensity comes from whoever keeps assuming that anyone with anything negative to say is a hater or a troll and always the same person. Newsflash, no school is perfect. Whole thing is strange.

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Anonymous wrote:DP here and I fully understand there is a group of really fired up northeastern haters-I think all of you are all a bit off! It’s not disliking it or thinking you or your child don’t want to apply or attend, it’s the weird intensity that freaks people out. It takes all kinds though so please carry on!

The intensity comes from whoever keeps assuming that anyone with anything negative to say is a hater or a troll and always the same person. Newsflash, no school is perfect. Whole thing is strange.

One can not deny that there are only a couple of schools that get as much attention as OP gives NEU, and NEU's OP has the most monotonous threads, by a long shot.

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Like (just about) any other school, NU is a good or great fit for some, and less so for others. My kid is a sophomore at the Business School there, concentrating on Financial Technology with a minor in Data Science. He's getting ready (hopefully!) to go on co-op next semester. He is having an excellent experience so far. He loves being in Boston, he's found several good groups of friends. There are some things that aren't great (e.g. this doesn't bother him, but from my perspective getting a college education without taking any humanities classes seems weird) and its possible that if lots of his friends disappear to coop out of town, that might not be great (though many (most?) stay in Boston). He's also noted that, at least during his freshman year, he thought the NUIn kids mostly stuck together once they got to Boston in January and didn't seem to get integrated with the rest of the class, though they all seemed pretty happy to him.

As for the overseas starts, I know a kid who is very, very smart (maybe the smartest kid I've ever met) who took a gap year after graduating from the magnet program at Blair, and then applied to NU for computer science. He was offered admission for a program that required (at least) a year in London. He took that gladly, as he was excited to be in London. But obviously that wouldn't be great for everyone.

Bottom line is that NU is a fantastic opportunity, but it may not fit every kid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trust me we are not applying. But people are allowed to comment on school threads and share opinions.

Yet here you are, again and again and again. You are too vested in this school, to not have an interest in your having been denied acceptance. Your lying about it is of no consequence to the rest of us, but you look more than a little foolish.

Are you brain dead? There are way more than one of us in this thread, and I am not op.

HIGH FIVE! Honestly I worry about this person who thinks someone is out to get NEU. Who even cares that much? It's even more bizarre than their admissions.

-- Definitely not the OP and not this person so thats 3 of us

Make that at least four of us…

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Anonymous wrote:speaking of happiness, retention rate and graduation rate would be good measures.

For retention rate, Northeastern is #3 among national universities
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

For graduation rate, Northeastern is #29 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year/

It's 21st century, age of data and information.
Hope you parents and students make good informed decisions.
Good luck.

Except the NE data is always skewed because they report only for kids who started in Boston freshman year. The data they report accounts for less than half the kids in a graduating class

I actually have nothing against the school but the posters who continue to tout the incomplete data after being told why it is misleading te super annoying.

Do the kids that start in other locations--internationally or outside of Boston have lower credentials ? Is that why they aren't included in the stats?

That’s the rumor. No one can say because zero data is released about them.

The "non-boston start" kids do not really have lower stats. Everyone admitted has high stats. Majority of those kids are Full pay because the programs are expensive and you cannot use federal aid for them. last year Nu Bound in London was over $85K and NO FOOD was included in that price. So you are looking at $90K+ easily. My kid was admitted, their stats were inline with the CDS

Did your kid actually attend? Anecdote is not the same as data. If the stats were the same, NE would release them. Emory provides all stats for students who start at their Oxford campus.

My kid did not attend--they wanted to spend their freshman year on the main campus not overseas studying abroad---they also wanted to take meaningful courses for their degree freshman year and with all their AP credits there were not high enough level math courses for them (would not have had a math class to take fall semester as an engineering major).
However, they were admitted NUBound, and were slightly above the 50% for the CDS for that year (2022 fall) for the admitted students on the Boston campus. So given that only 33% of those admitted submitted SAT scores (and only 11% for ACT, and lets assume at least 4-5% of those were double) so approximately only 40% or less of students submitted scores, and my kid was above the 50%, so I'd argue that there were likely plenty in the "not included in the data points" who were above the 50% and would not "drag down the scores". If anything including my kid's data point would have actually RAISED the scores in the CDS.

Maybe 5-8 years ago, those admitted to NUIn had slightly lower scores (note I stated slightly, because it was still competitive back then). In the last 3-5 years I don't believe that's the case anymore. Also, it's highly likely that majority of the 60% of kids who started fall in Boston who did NOT submit scores had lower scores than my kid---my kid just choose to submit their scores (790 math to show strength for engineering major).

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people get angry at colleges LOL
I have three kids in colleges. They received all sort of decisions - accepted, deferred, denied, waitlisted, and alternate path admission

For example, one offered an alternate path admission by Georgia Tech. Basically 1 year somewhere else then to the main campus.
We thought that was obviously better than reject, and kept that option in hand for a year, and threw it away.
One was waitlisted by UVA(although VA schools were at the bottom of the list). So kid had option to go to Wise campus for a year and to the main campus.

At the end, they all were very satisfied with the schools they ended up attending, and so no hard feelings for other schools at all.

+1

Let me guess - you manage to control yourself and not come to DCUM to voice your anger at any or all of those schools, because you are an adult, and you behave accordingly.

I have never heard of a school that does not have an additional campus, and would be concerned if a school I was considering did not, in this day and age. I also don't gauge which schools allegedly say what about what those schools do and do not do. I am not even as vested in my own DCs school - I can't imagine being that vested in a school that rejected us.

You are not very enlightened then. Most schools do NOT have alternative campuses, except for large state schools(that traditionally have a few to several other branches of X State U).

So I'd love a list of schools besides states schools that have extra campuses that are ranked in the T100