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.

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.

And future on campus housing includes forced doubles and triples in what were already tiny singles and doubles. NEU has overenrolled the past 2 years. Last year (current freshman) was almost 1500 extra students enrolled. They have grown so fast, they simply dont have housing available. I've seen the photos of the singles and doubles they plan to add 1 more kid to It's gonna be really cramped. Doubles with space for only 2 closets, so kids have to share. WHen closets are only 2 ft wide to begin with, that's not much space for kids especially in a cold weather place like Boston.

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What kinds of people make these posts? Genuinely curious.

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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?

Really you can't. It's a new program this year. Previous years it was a program for international students only. This is first year it's not all international students. So yeah, you really can't know that many people. You know NUIn people and that's a whole different program

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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.

Hotel living in a foreign city for a short term stint is not terrible. But to pay $75,000 for “on campus” housing and be stuffed into a Boston hotel a mile away with no NEU buses or realistic food options besides UberEats? No thanks.

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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.

Hotel living in a foreign city for a short term stint is not terrible. But to pay $75,000 for “on campus” housing and be stuffed into a Boston hotel a mile away with no NEU buses or realistic food options besides UberEats? No thanks.

Please pick other options.

Nobobdy is forcing me to major in theater.

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Anonymous wrote:What kinds of people make these posts? Genuinely curious.

+1

Usually one or more of the following, as with the handful of schools which tend to be bashed on DCUM (there is slight crossover in posters):

People who don't have the stats to get into Northeastern (or UVA, or Georgetown, or fill in the choice of the week to bash on DCUM).

Parents who went to lesser schools, who have a chip on their shoulder, all these decades later, about it.

Parents whose children were not admitted.

Students who were not admitted.

Parents who are spoiled and handed everything, so they lack the grit and gumption to have attend a school like Northeastern, or probably any higher ranked school.

Insecurity and/or immaturity and/or untreated mental illness that results in predisposition for unchecked compulsions and/or fixations and/or ruminations.

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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.

Hotel living in a foreign city for a short term stint is not terrible. But to pay $75,000 for “on campus” housing and be stuffed into a Boston hotel a mile away with no NEU buses or realistic food options besides UberEats? No thanks.

So dramatic! And likely crazy.

It seems you have never been to Boston, and certainly not to Northeastern. Boston is a very walkable city, with all sorts of food options.

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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.

And future on campus housing includes forced doubles and triples in what were already tiny singles and doubles. NEU has overenrolled the past 2 years. Last year (current freshman) was almost 1500 extra students enrolled. They have grown so fast, they simply dont have housing available. I've seen the photos of the singles and doubles they plan to add 1 more kid to It's gonna be really cramped. Doubles with space for only 2 closets, so kids have to share. WHen closets are only 2 ft wide to begin with, that's not much space for kids especially in a cold weather place like Boston.

Yes over-crowding was an issue for the last 2-3 years.

Why? because of the unexpected increase in the yield rate.
Northeastern's yield used to be at around 22%-25%.
However it jumped to over 30%, and expected at around 33%
(For a reference, Carnegie Mellown is around 37%)
This is a great thing for the school. Not only more kids apply, but more kids actually choose to attend.

However it resulted in overcrowding.
Hence, they accepted much less students this year to balance out the over-crowding and increase in yield.
So the acceptance rate this year= 7%
It used to be 18% -20% for the past years
It'll probably even out at around 10-15% for coming years.

A lot of parents and kids got mad and became haters after rejected, waitlisted, or non-direct accpet(NUIn/NuBound)
Some high stats kids thougt Northeastern was a safety when they were applying to T25ish schools.
That's bad judgement in the first place. 18% acceptance with 1500 SAT is not a safety to anyone to begin with.

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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.

First of all, the Spring start program on the main campus makes perfect sense for Northeastern with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester
A lot of other schools have the same or similar program - NYU BU comes to my mind.

Also this is nothing different than accepting a bunch of transfer students as far as fairness on student stats.
Schools like UCLA(#20) accept 6000 transfer students, UVA 600.
Many of them come from community colleges.
Their stats are not reported.

Also, the states for NUIn students are not much lower.
It used to be years years ago, but not anymore.

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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.

First of all, the Spring start program on the main campus makes perfect sense for Northeastern with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester
A lot of other schools have the same or similar program - NYU BU comes to my mind.

Also this is nothing different than accepting a bunch of transfer students as far as fairness on student stats.
Schools like UCLA(#20) accept 6000 transfer students, UVA 600.
Many of them come from community colleges.
Their stats are not reported.

Also, the states for NUIn students are not much lower.
It used to be years years ago, but not anymore.

Yup, both of them play the USNWR game, as well.

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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.

Hotel living in a foreign city for a short term stint is not terrible. But to pay $75,000 for “on campus” housing and be stuffed into a Boston hotel a mile away with no NEU buses or realistic food options besides UberEats? No thanks.

So dramatic! And likely crazy.

It seems you have never been to Boston, and certainly not to Northeastern. Boston is a very walkable city, with all sorts of food options.

You're wrong on every point!
I know Boston. We were there last week, toured NEU/BU/BC, and got to see first hand the NEU kids' hotel living. There's an UberEats drop off table by the hotel elevator lobby. The only food we saw was shake shack and chick fil a. Once I saw Chinese food. And yes I'm aware people, including NEU students, can walk a mile in a city. None of it seemed enjoyable or fun.

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So NUBound is basically a kind of transfer program like many others from many other schools.

However it's a new program that has not settled in well, and need improvments.

Other than that, I don't see any issue.

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I think the long discussion on this thread about NEU proves that OP has pretty much hit the nail on the head with his/her T20/T10 question. Could Yale or Brown or some Ivy pull in that much community interest on DCUM for such a long thread? Not really. These "fancy" Ivy-plus colleges also don't pull in as many applicants (50,000 for Ivy versus 90000 for NEU). Neither do these other "fancy" Ivy-plus colleges have the problem of too-many-admitted-students who need to be squeezed into hotel rooms. That is a problem that only happens to high-quality "products" like the crowds at the Apple store wanting to buy the latest iPhone. No one waits in a long line to buy a cheap flip phone. Get the picture of how quality and demand go hand in hand? Lets reflect on that a bit.

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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.

First of all, the Spring start program on the main campus makes perfect sense for Northeastern with its COOP program that a big body of students come in and out every semester
A lot of other schools have the same or similar program - NYU BU comes to my mind.

Also this is nothing different than accepting a bunch of transfer students as far as fairness on student stats.
Schools like UCLA(#20) accept 6000 transfer students, UVA 600.
Many of them come from community colleges.
Their stats are not reported.

Also, the states for NUIn students are not much lower.
It used to be years years ago, but not anymore.

Yup, both of them play the USNWR game, as well.

Who doesn't.
Some high profile schools not just game but actaully cheated, then got caught and getting caught.
Big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the long discussion on this thread about NEU proves that OP has pretty much hit the nail on the head with his/her T20/T10 question. Could Yale or Brown or some Ivy pull in that much community interest on DCUM for such a long thread? Not really. These "fancy" Ivy-plus colleges also don't pull in as many applicants (50,000 for Ivy versus 90000 for NEU). Neither do these other "fancy" Ivy-plus colleges have the problem of too-many-admitted-students who need to be squeezed into hotel rooms. That is a problem that only happens to high-quality "products" like the crowds at the Apple store wanting to buy the latest iPhone. No one waits in a long line to buy a cheap flip phone. Get the picture of how quality and demand go hand in hand? Lets reflect on that a bit.

The quality of applicants is pertinent here. People throwing an app at NEU at the click of a button is quite a different story from what you're trying to portray.

Also, I wouldn't characterize a bunch of people agreeing that NEU is overrated to be a positive reflection of the school.