Why is Northeastern (NEU) so popular with both parents and students these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too long thread. Didn’t read it. But surely someone noted this: marketing. Read ‘Who gets in and Why’ - details NEU wish in late 90s to crack T100. Clearly reached goal - and more.

It's the opposite. Their marketing doesn't seem to work.
Never heard of it until we actively start researching for colleges.
One of my kids is attending now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too long thread. Didn’t read it. But surely someone noted this: marketing. Read ‘Who gets in and Why’ - details NEU wish in late 90s to crack T100. Clearly reached goal - and more.

It's the opposite. Their marketing doesn't seem to work.
Never heard of it until we actively start researching for colleges.
One of my kids is attending now.

What marketing? We never received any marketing from this school? We know a student there who seems to really enjoy their time there, and they are very fond of the school. But what marketing??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot imagine why anyone has the need to espouse so much hatred for a school they claim holds no interest and no value to them. Nealry 100,000 kids are clamoring for only 3,000 Boston spots, so there are tens of thousands who feel differently than you. In the words of Elsa, "Let. It. Go."

Agree. What is the definition os insanity? Posting about a school over and over hoping for different results? OP is what mental illness looks like. If "no one cares" about a school, why are there so many threads and posts about it? It's a good school. Let it go.

[Anonymous]

When/why did Boston become the mecca of college locations? It makes no sense. The weather is bad, the cost of living is so expensive. The city is compact and so crowded. Is it because everyone heard of Harvard around the world?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When/why did Boston become the mecca of college locations? It makes no sense. The weather is bad, the cost of living is so expensive. The city is compact and so crowded. Is it because everyone heard of Harvard around the world?

Serious question. Are you high?

[Anonymous]

Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

This thread has become like some horrible rock that I can’t help looking under once in a while. But it’s gotten really boring and it seems to be driven by three or four posters at most. I used to be on the “anti” team because the NEU booster was insufferable - even though I would have liked my DD to apply to NEU (she didn’t want to.) But you anti guys are just as insufferable as the booster now. How about nobody posts about Northeastern unless they’ve looked at the school as recently as four years ago and/or are seriously interested in having their kid go there?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody outside northeastern students/parents/employees is thinking about northeastern. It is completely forgettable.

Curious why it gets almost 100k applications? And if it is true that there are only 3,000 freshmen, they must be doing something right.

They made it so easy to apply by just a few extra clicks on the common app. No essays or additional materials like most colleges require for an application.

The number of applications are due to 1) ridiculously easy application, 2) the location in Boston, and 3) the school is considered not a hard admit so accessible to the average kid.

It is really that simple. The number of applications is not a meaningful metric.

All is true, except #3. Most applying smartly know it's a hard admit. But most apply simply because it's the fee and a simple click (easy) and it's Boston--which is a fun, exciting place to attend college.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

This thread has become like some horrible rock that I can’t help looking under once in a while. But it’s gotten really boring and it seems to be driven by three or four posters at most. I used to be on the “anti” team because the NEU booster was insufferable - even though I would have liked my DD to apply to NEU (she didn’t want to.) But you anti guys are just as insufferable as the booster now. How about nobody posts about Northeastern unless they’ve looked at the school as recently as four years ago and/or are seriously interested in having their kid go there?

+1. Nailed it. The schtick is the same: post disingenuous thread question. Get a few responses. Post additional question that looks like it is piggybacking on the first, but opens doors for criticism of the school. The same people chime in about their negative thoughts and opinions. Far fetched opinions and false claims start trickling in. A few people chime in to tell the negative posters why they know their false claims to be false. It becomes more obvious that the negative posters know less and less about the actual facts and goings on about the school. Negative posters start asking for facts. Sane posters back away slowly from the same old post about the same school. OP or someone like them pretends to be a young person chiming in, adding ridiculous statements (a reflection of their "personality", or lack of, as a grown adult). Sane posters start questioning why the admin allows such posting. OP claims that there is "marketing" or "boosters", which tells you something about OPs sanity (ie: lack of). OP and those like them persist with their false claims. OP continues to wonder why people are questioning their absurd thread. Repeat.

I would feel bad for OP and those like them if they were not so sad and predictable. It has been said often that posters are sorry for OP that they were not accepted to the school, yet OP seems fixated on the topic, which can not be healthy for them or their family. OP and those like them posting here, does not change their situation.

Getting college information from an anonymous board is not a way to find mostly good or mostly accurate information, and many parents have kids who actually did the research to know this. OP, you should probably start fixating on your own family, instead of what other students are doing or not doing. Again, what you are doing can not be healthy for you or your family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I cannot imagine why anyone has the need to espouse so much hatred for a school they claim holds no interest and no value to them. Nealry 100,000 kids are clamoring for only 3,000 Boston spots, so there are tens of thousands who feel differently than you. In the words of Elsa, "Let. It. Go."

Agree. What is the definition os insanity? Posting about a school over and over hoping for different results? OP is what mental illness looks like. If "no one cares" about a school, why are there so many threads and posts about it? It's a good school. Let it go.

+1000.

So done with this post on NEU resurfacing every few months.

If the school is good for your kids, great! Why the need to defend it so much? What is the OP trying to prove?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

This thread has become like some horrible rock that I can’t help looking under once in a while. But it’s gotten really boring and it seems to be driven by three or four posters at most. I used to be on the “anti” team because the NEU booster was insufferable - even though I would have liked my DD to apply to NEU (she didn’t want to.) But you anti guys are just as insufferable as the booster now. How about nobody posts about Northeastern unless they’ve looked at the school as recently as four years ago and/or are seriously interested in having their kid go there?

+1. Nailed it. The schtick is the same: post disingenuous thread question. Get a few responses. Post additional question that looks like it is piggybacking on the first, but opens doors for criticism of the school. The same people chime in about their negative thoughts and opinions. Far fetched opinions and false claims start trickling in. A few people chime in to tell the negative posters why they know their false claims to be false. It becomes more obvious that the negative posters know less and less about the actual facts and goings on about the school. Negative posters start asking for facts. Sane posters back away slowly from the same old post about the same school. OP or someone like them pretends to be a young person chiming in, adding ridiculous statements (a reflection of their "personality", or lack of, as a grown adult). Sane posters start questioning why the admin allows such posting. OP claims that there is "marketing" or "boosters", which tells you something about OPs sanity (ie: lack of). OP and those like them persist with their false claims. OP continues to wonder why people are questioning their absurd thread. Repeat.

I would feel bad for OP and those like them if they were not so sad and predictable. It has been said often that posters are sorry for OP that they were not accepted to the school, yet OP seems fixated on the topic, which can not be healthy for them or their family. OP and those like them posting here, does not change their situation.

Getting college information from an anonymous board is not a way to find mostly good or mostly accurate information, and many parents have kids who actually did the research to know this. OP, you should probably start fixating on your own family, instead of what other students are doing or not doing. Again, what you are doing can not be healthy for you or your family.

To add: sprinkle with intermittent gaslighting about who started the thread, and which party is which. Don't forget to add loopholes so that OP and those like them are not so obvious (except that, in reality, they are more obvious which each post).

We get it, OP. That chip on your shoulder is mighty heavy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

This thread has become like some horrible rock that I can’t help looking under once in a while. But it’s gotten really boring and it seems to be driven by three or four posters at most. I used to be on the “anti” team because the NEU booster was insufferable - even though I would have liked my DD to apply to NEU (she didn’t want to.) But you anti guys are just as insufferable as the booster now. How about nobody posts about Northeastern unless they’ve looked at the school as recently as four years ago and/or are seriously interested in having their kid go there?

THIS!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

This thread has become like some horrible rock that I can’t help looking under once in a while. But it’s gotten really boring and it seems to be driven by three or four posters at most. I used to be on the “anti” team because the NEU booster was insufferable - even though I would have liked my DD to apply to NEU (she didn’t want to.) But you anti guys are just as insufferable as the booster now. How about nobody posts about Northeastern unless they’ve looked at the school as recently as four years ago and/or are seriously interested in having their kid go there?

THIS!!!

OPs friends have entered the chat. May you find peace on this Easter Sunday with your friends, or at least your family, if you have one. May you learn to appreciate what you have, and stop looking to others to fulfill whatever it is you might be chasing, which is clearly avoiding or eluding you. Be well.

Choose to have happiness, and not misery or comparison in your life. Choose to be productive, and not let what other people are doing or not doing eat away at your life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone on here wants the promote Northeastern, but it is not working. I hope it is an overzealous parent and that the school is not condoning or paying for this.

I’m not a parent with kids there and have nothing to do with it but I have posted when posters write ridiculous misinformation. A lot of people just correcting people inexplicably trying to portray it as less than it is.

[Anonymous]

For a lot of donut hole families, NEU offers merit aid, especially for high SAT kids. That is a powerful attractant.