Should Northeastern be T20? Or even T10?

[Anonymous]

I really don’t understand the NEU haters. We just toured.. They explained all of these “alternative” programs in great detail. We’ve toured 10-12 schools with our junior and this was the first that felt really different than the others. The co-op program seems really impressive and the two kids I know who are there love it.

My daughter thinks she wants to go to a smaller school but when my son is ready to look in a couple of years I think NEU will be at the top of the list. I have read that article that people keep citing about NEU “gaming “ the system. Seems like a nothing burger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I had never even heard of Northeastern (or Pitt, for that matter) before reading this forum. What a silly thread.

You've never hear of Pitt? Not even the football team or Dan Marino? Or the basketball team? Or Jonas Salk's discovery of the polio vaccine at Pitt?

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I had never even heard of Northeastern (or Pitt, for that matter) before reading this forum. What a silly thread.

You've never hear of Pitt? Not even the football team or Dan Marino? Or the basketball team? Or Jonas Salk's discovery of the polio vaccine at Pitt?

I don't follow sports. Of course I know about Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine. Just didn't know about his connection with Pitt. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For some strange reason people think it has prestige. My friend's kid was rejected RD but told she could do one year abroad in London. Cost would be about 80k, does not include food, some no name college which is housed in a single building. There is no housing on their return to northeastern and the credits transfer as pass/fail only.
Sounds like an utter scam. But she is an okay student and wanted prestige so begged her parents to pay for this nonsense. What a joke.

And to add to the list---if your kid has several AP credits, there might not be an ACTUAL courses that they can take that actually follows their normal major's path (ie. only Calc 1&2 are offered in fall---many top students have credit for both). If you follow the NUBound parents page, tons of them complain about all the valid issues, yet are still desperate to send their kid. My own kid moved on when NUBound was the result---he wants a more traditional, first year on campus with courses that actually are required for his major.

NEU is a good school, but the NUBound/NUin (especiallyNUBound whcih is full year abroad) is not really the best for many with majors that don't have tons of open electives (engineering, STEM), so might be best for an undecided student. And NEU is not a T40 school, but if it works for your kid and you are willing to pay $75K plus meals and everything else for a year in London go for it


BTW, they have updated their policy and the sophmore transfers (NUBound---call them transfers cause that is what they actually are) can now get housing sophomore year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For some strange reason people think it has prestige. My friend's kid was rejected RD but told she could do one year abroad in London. Cost would be about 80k, does not include food, some no name college which is housed in a single building. There is no housing on their return to northeastern and the credits transfer as pass/fail only.
Sounds like an utter scam. But she is an okay student and wanted prestige so begged her parents to pay for this nonsense. What a joke.

It's a complete scam. This is why Northeastern is trying so desperately to shore up fake prestige, in order to convince kids and their parents to pony up a premium for what is ultimately a subpar experience (NU Bound?).

Yes NU Bound.
Well kudos to Northeastern for being marketing geniuses. Selling subpar product in pretty packaging. It's like a Louis Vuitton. Somebody will always buy the bag because they love to show the LV all over it.

They are marketing geniuses---that I will give them credit for. No other school has students fawning over "Spring start" or "sophomore transfer student" like them. And they've marketed it so that NEU makes $$$$$ during those semester/year your kid is not actually an NEU student---it's brilliant from that perspective. A bit troubling that so many fall for it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For some strange reason people think it has prestige. My friend's kid was rejected RD but told she could do one year abroad in London. Cost would be about 80k, does not include food, some no name college which is housed in a single building. There is no housing on their return to northeastern and the credits transfer as pass/fail only.
Sounds like an utter scam. But she is an okay student and wanted prestige so begged her parents to pay for this nonsense. What a joke.

It's a complete scam. This is why Northeastern is trying so desperately to shore up fake prestige, in order to convince kids and their parents to pony up a premium for what is ultimately a subpar experience (NU Bound?).

Yes NU Bound.
Well kudos to Northeastern for being marketing geniuses. Selling subpar product in pretty packaging. It's like a Louis Vuitton. Somebody will always buy the bag because they love to show the LV all over it.

They are marketing geniuses---that I will give them credit for. No other school has students fawning over "Spring start" or "sophomore transfer student" like them. And they've marketed it so that NEU makes $$$$$ during those semester/year your kid is not actually an NEU student---it's brilliant from that perspective. A bit troubling that so many fall for it

No. A lot of shcools do it.

For example DCUM's favorite UVA does it too.
It's called UVA Globlal First!

https://uvaglobalfirst.as.virginia.edu/

Stop Whining.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For some strange reason people think it has prestige. My friend's kid was rejected RD but told she could do one year abroad in London. Cost would be about 80k, does not include food, some no name college which is housed in a single building. There is no housing on their return to northeastern and the credits transfer as pass/fail only.
Sounds like an utter scam. But she is an okay student and wanted prestige so begged her parents to pay for this nonsense. What a joke.

It's a complete scam. This is why Northeastern is trying so desperately to shore up fake prestige, in order to convince kids and their parents to pony up a premium for what is ultimately a subpar experience (NU Bound?).

Yes NU Bound.
Well kudos to Northeastern for being marketing geniuses. Selling subpar product in pretty packaging. It's like a Louis Vuitton. Somebody will always buy the bag because they love to show the LV all over it.

They are marketing geniuses---that I will give them credit for. No other school has students fawning over "Spring start" or "sophomore transfer student" like them. And they've marketed it so that NEU makes $$$$$ during those semester/year your kid is not actually an NEU student---it's brilliant from that perspective. A bit troubling that so many fall for it

No. A lot of shcools do it.

For example DCUM's favorite UVA does it too.
It's called UVA Globlal First!

https://uvaglobalfirst.as.virginia.edu/

Stop Whining.

+1

Most top schools have some form of it - but if you have no reason to know this, you would not know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:14 pages of nonsense... anyone who believes NEU is in T50 is out of his f'king mind. At best T70-T100 level school. I think OP's been trolling us all.

You must be like 90 years old.
It's better than some of the T30 schools such as Wake, UF, UNC, UCSD
At least by the selectivity and and student stats.

Their ranking game works for gullible folks like this PP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For some strange reason people think it has prestige. My friend's kid was rejected RD but told she could do one year abroad in London. Cost would be about 80k, does not include food, some no name college which is housed in a single building. There is no housing on their return to northeastern and the credits transfer as pass/fail only.
Sounds like an utter scam. But she is an okay student and wanted prestige so begged her parents to pay for this nonsense. What a joke.

It's a complete scam. This is why Northeastern is trying so desperately to shore up fake prestige, in order to convince kids and their parents to pony up a premium for what is ultimately a subpar experience (NU Bound?).

Yes NU Bound.
Well kudos to Northeastern for being marketing geniuses. Selling subpar product in pretty packaging. It's like a Louis Vuitton. Somebody will always buy the bag because they love to show the LV all over it.

They are marketing geniuses---that I will give them credit for. No other school has students fawning over "Spring start" or "sophomore transfer student" like them. And they've marketed it so that NEU makes $$$$$ during those semester/year your kid is not actually an NEU student---it's brilliant from that perspective. A bit troubling that so many fall for it

No. A lot of shcools do it.

For example DCUM's favorite UVA does it too.
It's called UVA Globlal First!

https://uvaglobalfirst.as.virginia.edu/

Stop Whining.

Also NYU
https://www.nyu.edu/academics/studying-abroad/freshmen-abroad-programs.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For some strange reason people think it has prestige. My friend's kid was rejected RD but told she could do one year abroad in London. Cost would be about 80k, does not include food, some no name college which is housed in a single building. There is no housing on their return to northeastern and the credits transfer as pass/fail only.
Sounds like an utter scam. But she is an okay student and wanted prestige so begged her parents to pay for this nonsense. What a joke.

It's a complete scam. This is why Northeastern is trying so desperately to shore up fake prestige, in order to convince kids and their parents to pony up a premium for what is ultimately a subpar experience (NU Bound?).

Yes NU Bound.
Well kudos to Northeastern for being marketing geniuses. Selling subpar product in pretty packaging. It's like a Louis Vuitton. Somebody will always buy the bag because they love to show the LV all over it.

They are marketing geniuses---that I will give them credit for. No other school has students fawning over "Spring start" or "sophomore transfer student" like them. And they've marketed it so that NEU makes $$$$$ during those semester/year your kid is not actually an NEU student---it's brilliant from that perspective. A bit troubling that so many fall for it

No. A lot of shcools do it.

For example DCUM's favorite UVA does it too.
It's called UVA Globlal First!

https://uvaglobalfirst.as.virginia.edu/

Stop Whining.

Haha. You must be a NU student.
It's nowhere near the same.
UVA global first is something kids can opt into if they want to do first semester at Regents College in London, or in Valencia.

Nu Bound is for kids who did not get into NU, didn't have the stats and they are forced to attend first year abroad at some New College of Humanities in London or Mill College in Oakland, CA. They do not get housing on return (UVA kids do), they only get pass/fail credit, essentially they are like transfer students.

So no, it's a scam. I mean if you want to do it, then it's fine. But nobody is fooled!

[Anonymous]

I just read through this thread. I honestly cannot imagine that anyone could possibly know how a school should “rank” compared to ten or twenty or forty other schools when you only have first-hand experience with one college (or a few if you include second-hand experiences vis-a-vis your kids). Therefore I have to believe that the positive posts are being written by kids who are excited about getting in to NEU and the negative ones are being written by those who were rejected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the NEU haters. We just toured.. They explained all of these “alternative” programs in great detail. We’ve toured 10-12 schools with our junior and this was the first that felt really different than the others. The co-op program seems really impressive and the two kids I know who are there love it.

My daughter thinks she wants to go to a smaller school but when my son is ready to look in a couple of years I think NEU will be at the top of the list. I have read that article that people keep citing about NEU “gaming “ the system. Seems like a nothing burger.

Some folks are perfectly happy to be "gamed".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the NEU haters. We just toured.. They explained all of these “alternative” programs in great detail. We’ve toured 10-12 schools with our junior and this was the first that felt really different than the others. The co-op program seems really impressive and the two kids I know who are there love it.

My daughter thinks she wants to go to a smaller school but when my son is ready to look in a couple of years I think NEU will be at the top of the list. I have read that article that people keep citing about NEU “gaming “ the system. Seems like a nothing burger.

Some folks are perfectly happy to be "gamed".

Some folks can’t get over it when they’re rejected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:14 pages of nonsense... anyone who believes NEU is in T50 is out of his f'king mind. At best T70-T100 level school. I think OP's been trolling us all.

You must be like 90 years old.
It's better than some of the T30 schools such as Wake, UF, UNC, UCSD
At least by the selectivity and and student stats.

Their ranking game works for gullible folks like this PP.

Honest to god, the only “gullible”people are those who rely on 3rd party rankings to determine what a good school is…or who believe “top 10” is materially different from “top 20” or “top 50”.

This thread is full of the most insecure people…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really don’t understand the NEU haters. We just toured.. They explained all of these “alternative” programs in great detail. We’ve toured 10-12 schools with our junior and this was the first that felt really different than the others. The co-op program seems really impressive and the two kids I know who are there love it.

My daughter thinks she wants to go to a smaller school but when my son is ready to look in a couple of years I think NEU will be at the top of the list. I have read that article that people keep citing about NEU “gaming “ the system. Seems like a nothing burger.

Some folks are perfectly happy to be "gamed".

Some folks can’t get over it when they’re rejected.

Rejection is cool at Northleastern.