Should Northeastern be T20? Or even T10?

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Anonymous wrote: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

Again, nu Bound transfer is not 'go to a college of your choice and see you back next year' (like BU). It is binding. You have to pay 75K and it does not include food and go to a specific location. They know there are enough full pay people who will accept this nonsense because they want the brand name. Lol

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OP, you need a hobby. You are fixated on one topic and it really is not healthy, at all. I feel bad for your family.

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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.

Yes--they did do this in Late march/early April. Just put out the list of courses offered last week. This year's NUbound students are guinea pigs really----the plan is constantly changing, as it wasn't really well put together (and still isn't). My son immediately said he didn't want to do this. Despite checking all the boxes that he didn't want to do any abroad freshman year, he got NUBound instead of a rejection. I suspect largely because we are full pay. It is quite entertaining to watch how many parents are desperate to sign their kid up for NUBound, despite the fact same parents are complaining about all of the major issues/deficiencies with the program. My Son immediately moved on to his next choices and is happy with that.

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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

Wrong, wrong wrong (or you were until about 10 days ago when NEU changed the policy)
--Of course they get on campus housing was NOT TRUE until about 10 days ago!!! ED/EA students have been told for 3-4 months that they would NOT ever be eligible for on campus housing. Enough parents complained and not enough signed up for NUBound that NEU changed that policy about 10 days ago. NUBound students were to be Transfer students and not ALLOWED to live on campus. That's a pretty big deal---imagine finding housing in Boston, where you have never been in Nov/Dec of freshman year for August the next year. Your only choice of whom to live with is the 150-200 students at your nUBound location, because you don't know anybody else. So you would have been on your own to secure housing off campus in a crazy housing market.

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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

By definition, a safety should be higher than 50% acceptance rate, your kid should be at/above 75% for stats, and IT SHOULD BE AFFORDABLE for you. There are many options out there for making college affordable---it may not be an elite school or even T50, but there are great schools that can be very affordable if you are willing to search.

Yes, we are privileged to be full pay. Made it a priority to save for college once we realized that we made too much to get any financial aide. Currently driving a 15 yo vehicle myself to make this happen. So yes, if UVA is your kid's dream school, and the finances are the best, then sure go ahead and go overseas for fall semester. But for many majors, you might need an extra semester to finish your major (I'm thinking Engineering as those 3 courses don't look STEM focused.)

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Anonymous wrote: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

Transferring is common, but typically you are able to self select where you do your first year of courses. You are not typically forced to overpay for a basic experience in order to be a transfer student. And yes, if you really want a specific school, then go ahead and be a transfer student. But NEU is the only school I'm aware of that markets this way, they don't directly call it a transfer program, their marketing is well done to make it seem like something different but really it is just a glorified transfer program where NEU makes the $$$$ off of students their first year.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Again, nu Bound transfer is not 'go to a college of your choice and see you back next year' (like BU). It is binding. You have to pay 75K and it does not include food and go to a specific location. They know there are enough full pay people who will accept this nonsense because they want the brand name. Lol

Yup! Pay 75K, still have to pay for meals (not cheap in London), possibly not even have courses that work for your major, get your classes all P/F, so not on your transcript (wont work for premed students---med schools need to see the grades). The fact that NEU is constantly changing NUBound as they get input indicates that they simply are not getting enough takers, so are searching for ways to snag enough takers. NEU is a good school, but not worth jumping thru hoops just to say you went there. If you are majoring in STEM/Engineering you can coop at almost any school, it's not unique just to NEU. Not everyone will coop, but 25-30% of students at most engineering schools will be cooping.

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I know plenty of students who have participated in the program at Northeastern, and they are perfectly happy with it, because they want to attend Northeastern (not a lesser school).

What is interesting is why OP keeps posting about it. Seems you are angry about not being accepted to the program, OP.

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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

Wrong, wrong wrong (or you were until about 10 days ago when NEU changed the policy)
--Of course they get on campus housing was NOT TRUE until about 10 days ago!!! ED/EA students have been told for 3-4 months that they would NOT ever be eligible for on campus housing. Enough parents complained and not enough signed up for NUBound that NEU changed that policy about 10 days ago. NUBound students were to be Transfer students and not ALLOWED to live on campus. That's a pretty big deal---imagine finding housing in Boston, where you have never been in Nov/Dec of freshman year for August the next year. Your only choice of whom to live with is the 150-200 students at your nUBound location, because you don't know anybody else. So you would have been on your own to secure housing off campus in a crazy housing market.

And “on campus housing” includes hotel living a city mile away.

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Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of students who have participated in the program at Northeastern, and they are perfectly happy with it, because they want to attend Northeastern (not a lesser school).

What is interesting is why OP keeps posting about it. Seems you are angry about not being accepted to the program, OP.

Lol. You can't possibly know Plenty of students who did NU Bound. It's a relatively new program..

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Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of students who have participated in the program at Northeastern, and they are perfectly happy with it, because they want to attend Northeastern (not a lesser school).

What is interesting is why OP keeps posting about it. Seems you are angry about not being accepted to the program, OP.

Lol. You can't possibly know Plenty of students who did NU Bound. It's a relatively new program..

I actually do, much to your dismay. They really enjoy it. Why does that bother you so much?

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For the last time, NOBODY IS FORCING ANYONE.

If you also got in Harvard, you have option to pick that.
If other options are all pudunk shools, NuBound could be a great deal for certain majors for certain people.

Personally the biggest fraud is something like theater major at any college
However it's a good option for many 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

Wrong, wrong wrong (or you were until about 10 days ago when NEU changed the policy)
--Of course they get on campus housing was NOT TRUE until about 10 days ago!!! ED/EA students have been told for 3-4 months that they would NOT ever be eligible for on campus housing. Enough parents complained and not enough signed up for NUBound that NEU changed that policy about 10 days ago. NUBound students were to be Transfer students and not ALLOWED to live on campus. That's a pretty big deal---imagine finding housing in Boston, where you have never been in Nov/Dec of freshman year for August the next year. Your only choice of whom to live with is the 150-200 students at your nUBound location, because you don't know anybody else. So you would have been on your own to secure housing off campus in a crazy housing market.

And “on campus housing” includes hotel living a city mile away.

Other schools have the same type of programs, so it doesn't bother most people as much as the Northeastern program seems to bother OP.

I personally would have loved to have studied abroad and lived in a foreign city in college. What better time to do that. Of course, OP probably doesn't enjoy much, if anything.

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Anonymous wrote:I know plenty of students who have participated in the program at Northeastern, and they are perfectly happy with it, because they want to attend Northeastern (not a lesser school).

What is interesting is why OP keeps posting about it. Seems you are angry about not being accepted to the program, OP.

Not OP.

You likely know people who did NUIn. NUIn is a completely different program than NUBound. NUBound had been largely for international students until fall 2022, so doubt you know people who did NUBound. NUIn is first semester abroad, come back to Boston in Jan and integrate into campus. Only 1 semester overseas, with courses that might not meet your major reqs. NUBound is a completely different thing with the full first year over seas. You are a transfer student. Until 10 days ago, you could NEVER live on NEU campus as a transfer student with NUBOund. My kid might have considered NUIn, but not willing to do NUbound.

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Anonymous wrote:For the last time, NOBODY IS FORCING ANYONE.

If you also got in Harvard, you have option to pick that.
If other options are all pudunk shools, NuBound could be a great deal for certain majors for certain people.

Personally the biggest fraud is something like theater major at any college
However it's a good option for many people.

In OP's mind, anyone who disagrees with him must be wrong. LOL - what a treat to live with someone like that.