Why is Northeastern (NEU) so popular with both parents and students these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The NEU booster is on full throttle!!

I have a question. If NEU is such an amazing place, why can't it get below 40 on the rankings? In reality, the top schools have a consistent ranking history in the top 30, top 20, top 10. But NEU is odd in that they adjust their programs to the USNWR methodologies in an effort to game the rankings year after year. I guess what they are doing is legit, but still, it seems, well (as I mentioned earlier on this thread), sleazy.

Article that someone shared from a decade ago stated that many other top schools did the same thing with ranking strategies. Nothing new.

TODAY, NEU is a top 50ish college on Boston that has some demand. It can choose to be as selective as it wants, mad parents notwithstanding.

[Anonymous]

It looks like the older mother who hates NEU because her child waa rejected is still trying to churn up hate towards NEU. Don't know why she can't just leave it alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Same reasons that University of Phoenix is so popular.

Why would you write something so stupid and meaningless? Do grown adults make fun of where your child attends? Your posts tell your children that you are not proud of them. If someone were to send all of your posts to someone important in your life, what would they think of your behavior?

What exactly do you take issue with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the older mother who hates NEU because her child waa rejected is still trying to churn up hate towards NEU. Don't know why she can't just leave it alone.

Do they actually reject or do they just accept to different campuses / defer a semester? That was my understanding.

[Anonymous]

There are one or two crazy hater trolls.
Feel bad for their kids if they are parents.

[Anonymous]

The amount of gaslighting alone should get this thread deleted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The amount of gaslighting alone should get this thread deleted.

It happens with every thread. It's simply not allowed to have anything negative to say about this school.

Lemme go log off my VPN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The amount of gaslighting alone should get this thread deleted.

+1

[Anonymous]

Seriously? Are we back to the same booster posting about NEU for further marketing? This thread should be deleted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the older mother who hates NEU because her child waa rejected is still trying to churn up hate towards NEU. Don't know why she can't just leave it alone.

Do they actually reject or do they just accept to different campuses / defer a semester? That was my understanding.

They reject. There are only 1,100 NU.in spots and 350 Oakland spots. NU.in has become so popular that it is almost as difficult to get in there as it is for Boston. It is simply a numbers game. 98,000 applications. 2,500 Boston spots, 1,100 NU.in, 350 Oakland with 350 Global Scholars (two semesters at two different campuses).

With a yield rate of 50% for Boston, NEU can be choosy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? Are we back to the same booster posting about NEU for further marketing? This thread should be deleted.

+100. I don’t understand why the posts on how NEU is so great keep on popping up. It’s a good school in the Boston area but this post assumes a lot about how popular NEU is with students/parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It looks like the older mother who hates NEU because her child waa rejected is still trying to churn up hate towards NEU. Don't know why she can't just leave it alone.

Do they actually reject or do they just accept to different campuses / defer a semester? That was my understanding.

And why would someone be unhappy with a campus in London????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? Are we back to the same booster posting about NEU for further marketing? This thread should be deleted.

+100. I don’t understand why the posts on how NEU is so great keep on popping up. It’s a good school in the Boston area but this post assumes a lot about how popular NEU is with students/parents.

I assume as most college acceptances are in (as we wait for Ivy Day) that a lot of parents and students are mulling their options, and quite a few are thinking of NEU. Since it gets almost 100,000 applications, many people have a vested interest in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously? Are we back to the same booster posting about NEU for further marketing? This thread should be deleted.

+100. I don’t understand why the posts on how NEU is so great keep on popping up. It’s a good school in the Boston area but this post assumes a lot about how popular NEU is with students/parents.

They keep ‘popping up’ because they have a dedicated booster on the boards. It’s definitely improved since its days as a commuter school (truly), but frankly all the marketing is distasteful and desperate. Still not in the same league as the other big name Boston schools, gaming the system notwithstanding. Did a spring break tour nonetheless. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Desperate schools do not receive nearly one hundred thousand applications for several years in a row