Scathing Summary of Northeastern Admissions
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Anonymous
When casting aspersions, you may want to refrain from using descriptors like “Physically mathematically”. |
Anonymous
| How do sports teams work at Northeastern with kids going away on coops? I’m guessing they take extra students on teams so they can shuffle the roster if some of the team is away. The coop program must affect school spirit. Is the school low on school spirit? |
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I live in boston and I still don’t get northeastern
The northeastern people I know are all young women from rich families They all have pretty ho-hum jobs… It’s def a good school for stem but outside of that, I don’t get how it’s so popular besides being in boston. Tons of rich foreign students as well just pouring money into a “degree” A weird place - outside of stem |
Anonymous
| Again, they’ve done a great job of falsely marketing it as super competitive and there are plenty of people who want to say that their kid goes to a school that is tough to get into. It’s the same as a not terribly cool club creating a line out the door to create a perception of exclusivity. |
Anonymous
You have a very limited grasp. It's also good for business, pre-med, design & applied art, etc., It's overall outcome rivals many of the T20 T30 schools. https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University |
Anonymous
Northeastern is a meets need school. Not everyone is rich! |
Anonymous
There are some myths about coop in Northeastern. Coop is not required. What is required is one experiential education which includes coop and also, study abroad, Summer cultural immersion program, research, etc. Coop is an added program/service/support by the school. It's an enhanced version of internship with more flexibility and better support from the school. So instead of Summer only, you can do the internship in the Spring or Fall. Course offerings and the whole academic structure is designed to support that with plenty of Summer courses. NU has 19 NCAA DI sports teams, and ice hockey is big. Also aren't there seasons for each sport? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnpEQMuSFk |
Anonymous
That’s because they are separate applications to different locations. The college park figures are for applicants only to college park. At Northeastern you have a single application. |
Anonymous
| I know it may be shocking, but not all kids want school spirit in the rah rah way. Mine does not and deliberately chose urban schools with little to no Greek life and no major sports teams (preferred a school without a football team, as well). |
Anonymous
Not shcoking at all, tons and tons of students prefer urban/city setting rather than heavy greek or big sports setting these days. |
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How to Game the College Rankings
Northeastern University executed one of the most dramatic turnarounds in higher education. Its recipe for success? A single-minded focus on just one list. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/ |
Anonymous
And the most unoriginal post goes to ^^^^^ |
Anonymous
Yet (inexplicably) none of the Northeastern boosters seem to have actually read the article… |
Anonymous
Freeland swept into Northeastern with a brand-new mantra: recalibrate the school to climb up the ranks. “There’s no question that the system invites gaming,” Freeland tells me. “We made a systematic effort to influence [the outcome].” He directed university researchers to break the U.S. News code and replicate its formulas. He spoke about the rankings all the time—in hallways and at board meetings, illustrating his points with charts. He spent his days trying to figure out how to get the biggest bump up the charts for his buck. He worked the goal into the school’s strategic plan. “We had to get into the top 100,” Freeland says. “That was a life-or-death matter for Northeastern.” So this is a university where ranking is a life-or-death matter!!! |
Anonymous
This more than a decade old article basically says NU followed rules and transparent about it. It actually improved significantly in the areas considered important while other schools have secretly cheated. Some of the high profile examples beside of the ones listed in the article, - UCBerkeley: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/ - Emory: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/emory-university-false-academic-data-sent-ranking-groups-flna950476 - Columbia: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-01/columbia-to-pay-9-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-us-news-college-ranking |