Should Northeastern be T20? Or even T10?

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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.

Wouldn't do it at UVA either, or any other school. Not desperate enough to not start school on campus fall of freshman year. If that meant attending a Safety school for my kid vs reach or target, he would have attended his safety, because he picked safety schools he'd actually like to attend. Similar to how my kid is not selecting WL for two target schools either, getting excited about top 2 choices (target schools) and will pick from those.

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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!

This----at NEU the students are Transfer students. Grades transfer as P/F. Classes are not fully available for many majors (most engineering or stem if students have AP credit for Math/Science). If you like the idea of a full year overseas with only 150-200 other students, where the curriculum is not the same as at NEU, where many advanced students would taking several courses that "will not count for their degree/not needed for their degree", then go for it. I suspect these first semester/year abroad work best for undecided or Liberal arts majors, where one has a lot of free/open electives.

Since courses are Pass/Fail, good luck getting a coop sophomore year when you don't have a GPA until Late December, and even then it's just 4 courses. You will spend spring of soph year applying to coops with only 1 semester of grades when most competitors have an extra year or more of grades.

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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!

This----at NEU the students are Transfer students. Grades transfer as P/F. Classes are not fully available for many majors (most engineering or stem if students have AP credit for Math/Science). If you like the idea of a full year overseas with only 150-200 other students, where the curriculum is not the same as at NEU, where many advanced students would taking several courses that "will not count for their degree/not needed for their degree", then go for it. I suspect these first semester/year abroad work best for undecided or Liberal arts majors, where one has a lot of free/open electives.

Since courses are Pass/Fail, good luck getting a coop sophomore year when you don't have a GPA until Late December, and even then it's just 4 courses. You will spend spring of soph year applying to coops with only 1 semester of grades when most competitors have an extra year or more of grades.

Enough parents complained and there were not enough signups for this scam NU Bound, so NU recently said they would provide second year on campus housing for these students.

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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.

There's just like two NEU alums/parents who are reeeeeally insistent on trying to convince people that NEU is elite. They've been perpetuating the bulk of this thread.

It is elite, already T20, probably T10 in a few years and not unrealistic to be T3 eventually.

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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!

LOL when UVA does it, it's OK, it must be a good thing.
When Northeastern has been doing it because it fits well with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester, it's a scam.

Of course they get housing when they come back.
In fact you are REQUIRED to live on campus through 2nd year LOL
https://www.northeastern.edu/housing/residency-waiver/#:~:text=Residency%20Requirement-,Undergraduates%20who%20enter%20as%20first%2Dyear%20students%20through%20fall%20admission,over%20time%20and%20with%20consideration.

There's zero differentiation when they come back.
By the way, nobody is forcing anybody.
It's still a perfectly free country last time I checked LMFAO

WTF is wrong with these people

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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!

LOL when UVA does it, it's OK, it must be a good thing.
When Northeastern has been doing it because it fits well with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester, it's a scam.

Of course they get housing when they come back.
In fact you are REQUIRED to live on campus through 2nd year LOL
https://www.northeastern.edu/housing/residency-waiver/#:~:text=Residency%20Requirement-,Undergraduates%20who%20enter%20as%20first%2Dyear%20students%20through%20fall%20admission,over%20time%20and%20with%20consideration.

There's zero differentiation when they come back.
By the way, nobody is forcing anybody.
It's still a perfectly free country last time I checked LMFAO

WTF is wrong with these people

You are talking about NuIn, not NU Bound. NuIn is perfectly legit.

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To whoeever was comparing NUBound to UVA Global first.

Here is UVA Global first...a semester in London (or Valencia)

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Requirements Summary

As noted in the section above, UVA London First students enroll in three required classes. These classes, from within the Engagements Pathway of the new College curriculum, fulfill the following requirements:

Engagements: A 4-credit engagement class, Global Cultures in a World City. This class covers two of the four required Engagement (EGMT) classes: "Engaging Difference" and "Aesthetic Engagement". The class be taught by Prof. Michael Levenson, Department of English, UVA. Students take the remaining two EGMT classes when they return to Grounds in the spring.
Literacies: ENWR 1510 (required of all students) will be taught by a UVA instructor. The theme is Writing about Culture/Society with a focus on London.
Disciplines: "Democracy in Crisis? British Democracy Crossroads" will fill the Social & Economics System Disciplinary category.
The remaining two courses, totaling 16 credits, will be chosen by the student from a list of pre-selected courses in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and will be "tagged" for any disciplinary or literacy requirements they fulfill.

All courses count as UVA credit and all courses and grades will be recorded on each student's UVA transcript.


UVA London First students will reside in Reid Hall on the Regent's campus, located in one of the world's most well-known and loved urban parks. Accommodations are spacious double or triple rooms. Each student will have a roommate. The dining hall is a short walk from the residence hall.

Students enjoy a full meal plan at Regent’s University London, which offers access to all of the university's dining facilities.

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NU Bound, not the same. Also no food included.

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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.

Wouldn't do it at UVA either, or any other school. Not desperate enough to not start school on campus fall of freshman year. If that meant attending a Safety school for my kid vs reach or target, he would have attended his safety, because he picked safety schools he'd actually like to attend. Similar to how my kid is not selecting WL for two target schools either, getting excited about top 2 choices (target schools) and will pick from those.

Yet you are forgetting the vast difference n price between UVA, instate or OSS and W&L. Some of us are not so privileged to have that choice

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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!

LOL when UVA does it, it's OK, it must be a good thing.
When Northeastern has been doing it because it fits well with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester, it's a scam.

Of course they get housing when they come back.
In fact you are REQUIRED to live on campus through 2nd year LOL
https://www.northeastern.edu/housing/residency-waiver/#:~:text=Residency%20Requirement-,Undergraduates%20who%20enter%20as%20first%2Dyear%20students%20through%20fall%20admission,over%20time%20and%20with%20consideration.

There's zero differentiation when they come back.
By the way, nobody is forcing anybody.
It's still a perfectly free country last time I checked LMFAO

WTF is wrong with these people

There’s a big deal difference. UVA’s is optional. Northeastern is making it mandatory to avoid reporting stats.

[Anonymous]

So NUIn is like UVA Global

NUBound is like a guaranteed transfer program(if you meet the minimum requirements)
Again there are many schools that have similar programs.
For example Georgia Tech Pathway programs
https://admission.gatech.edu/transfer/transfer-pathway-programs

Transferring is a common thing.

Enough of whining LOL

[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.

There's just like two NEU alums/parents who are reeeeeally insistent on trying to convince people that NEU is elite. They've been perpetuating the bulk of this thread.

It is elite, already T20, probably T10 in a few years and not unrealistic to be T3 eventually.

[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!

LOL when UVA does it, it's OK, it must be a good thing.
When Northeastern has been doing it because it fits well with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester, it's a scam.

Of course they get housing when they come back.
In fact you are REQUIRED to live on campus through 2nd year LOL
https://www.northeastern.edu/housing/residency-waiver/#:~:text=Residency%20Requirement-,Undergraduates%20who%20enter%20as%20first%2Dyear%20students%20through%20fall%20admission,over%20time%20and%20with%20consideration.

There's zero differentiation when they come back.
By the way, nobody is forcing anybody.
It's still a perfectly free country last time I checked LMFAO

WTF is wrong with these people

There’s a big deal difference. UVA’s is optional. Northeastern is making it mandatory to avoid reporting stats.

Attending Northeastern is also optional.
If it's a such a bad thing, why would UVA even make it optional.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is a visionary and DCUM has a problem with it. NEU is a new kind of school that is taking the stodgy IVY-covered "prestige" schools by storm. The beauty is that the faculty teaching at NEU are mostly like the ones from the old days when it was commuter school. But, the university administration is just amazing and has built a great team out lower-division players. This is one place that is run truly like a business and it is going to eat other universities for lunch. Kudos to NEU (and OP for bringing all this to light).

Here are some amazingly innovative things NEU does that changes the higher education game.

1) Co-ops. What an idea. It redefines higher-ed and NEU did it first.

2) Application fee waivers given out liberally, so all can apply.

3) No essays. Holistic-Shmolistic. Admitting by the numbers is faster and easier. Who wants to read tons of garbage essays from high school kids on why NEU is great.

4) Merit aid that is just enough to compete for attracting the few top students who can bring in other average full-pay students.

5) Drive everything using data science. They hired a guy who does admissions by big data analysis to guess who will accept and who won't. Real high tech stuff.

6) Don't pay for high-flown faculty (Nobel laureates) when you can hire half-a-dozen teachers with the same money.

7) Open as many branches as you can to capture the market. Now NEU is everywhere.

So, it is really hard for others to compete as NEU thinks just like a company maximizing revenues. So, that is good thing for higher ed, since one needs to be customer focused in any business. And in higher-ed, the customers are the kids.

+1

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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!

LOL when UVA does it, it's OK, it must be a good thing.
When Northeastern has been doing it because it fits well with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester, it's a scam.

Of course they get housing when they come back.
In fact you are REQUIRED to live on campus through 2nd year LOL
https://www.northeastern.edu/housing/residency-waiver/#:~:text=Residency%20Requirement-,Undergraduates%20who%20enter%20as%20first%2Dyear%20students%20through%20fall%20admission,over%20time%20and%20with%20consideration.

There's zero differentiation when they come back.
By the way, nobody is forcing anybody.
It's still a perfectly free country last time I checked LMFAO

WTF is wrong with these people

There’s a big deal difference. UVA’s is optional. Northeastern is making it mandatory to avoid reporting stats.

Attending Northeastern is also optional.
If it's a such a bad thing, why would UVA even make it optional.

Ok we will try to explain it again to you. Some schools are skirting USNWR reporting requirements by admitting lower stats kids to start in January OR start abroad. That way they don’t have to report the stats. Northeastern is well known for having hired managers whose sole job it is to figure out how to push the school up tge rankings. UVA doesn’t have the resources to play the game (Chicago and others are playing it). So your lower stat kid (legacy, etc) gets a qualified offer. They aren’t allowed to start in the fall or on campus. It’s a mandatory part of the acceptance. Parents have gotten upset at these programs but some students who really want the school will accept on those terms. UVA’s program isn’t mandatory as part of the acceptance. If however you choose to go you can.

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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!

LOL when UVA does it, it's OK, it must be a good thing.
When Northeastern has been doing it because it fits well with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester, it's a scam.

Of course they get housing when they come back.
In fact you are REQUIRED to live on campus through 2nd year LOL
https://www.northeastern.edu/housing/residency-waiver/#:~:text=Residency%20Requirement-,Undergraduates%20who%20enter%20as%20first%2Dyear%20students%20through%20fall%20admission,over%20time%20and%20with%20consideration.

There's zero differentiation when they come back.
By the way, nobody is forcing anybody.
It's still a perfectly free country last time I checked LMFAO

WTF is wrong with these people

There’s a big deal difference. UVA’s is optional. Northeastern is making it mandatory to avoid reporting stats.

Attending Northeastern is also optional.
If it's a such a bad thing, why would UVA even make it optional.

Omg. No nu bound is NOT optional. Either you go or you don't get admitted to NU.