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Anonymous
- less racist city - less elitist cohort - lesser cost of living for everything Go Dragons! |
Anonymous
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FYI on N.U.in first-semester abroad option. The grades are no longer pass/fail and will now count toward GPA.
Students have mixed views according to student newspaper article this week. https://huntnewsnu.com/75069/campus/n-u-in-pass-fail-system-replaced-with-grades-students-respond/ |
Anonymous
| Loved the OP (son was deferred from EA) and will henceforth always in my head refer to the Oakland or NU.in/non-Boston programs as "stuffed mushrooms." 😂 |
Anonymous
Your beliefs are inaccurate, and the attention to this particular school (and no other) on this board is truly fascinating. There have been five posts in one week, most with wildly inaccurate claims, and little or no moderation. It seems obvious that some parents can not let go of the fact they and/or their DC were not admitted to NEU. If the school was any of what DCUM claims, there would not be almost 100k applications this year. Suit yourself, but making false claims on DCUM, or trying to disparage any school who refused you admission, only puts you in a very obvious and glaring spotlight. Teach your kids better, coping mechanisms notwithstanding. You are making it loud and clear why NEU refused to admit you. |
Anonymous
#3 among national university after UChicago and MIT, tied with Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Northwestern, Rice, Notre Dame. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/freshmen-least-most-likely-return Overcrowding is temporary and still less crowded than most of the big state schools although the forced triple room was a legit complaint. (My DC had to endure that for the first year, but in a air-conditioned single room for the 2nd and 3rd year) If you include first year alternate path students, retention rate would be even higher. Haters(mostly rejected or those who got results they don't like) will whatever, but retention rate says it all. |
Anonymous
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Yep.
This is how Northeastern treats people and yet students line up to apply. I didn’t understand my kid even wanting to apply and assume she did so because of a friend. Yes, she had some maturing to do. To top it off, NEU sent out the wrong type of emails to rejected (aka deferred) kids adding further insult to injury. Hope people wise up that NEU is like this. And is t this the school that hired a data analytics guys to get all the pegs (students) into different holes (campuses)? |
Anonymous
Yep. A commuter school in the not too far past. The GMU of Boston. |
Anonymous
Often compared. :sarcasm: |
Anonymous
NEU has not been a commuter school since the 1950's. GMU is a current day commuter school. So, they are very different in every way. If your kid was denied at NEU, and accepted at GMU, shouldn't you be proud of your kid - instead of posting here? How sad for your kid. |
Anonymous
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MIT was a commuter school earlier.
It was actually called Boston Tech. But this is 21st century now. |
Anonymous
LOL, I have not dog in this fight but this a reach. MIT has been MIT for over 100 years. Northeastern was a 3rd rate commuter school up until like 15 years ago. |
Anonymous
LOL, NOPE. Initially MIT was more like vocational focused Colleges in the US were regarded 2nd 3rd rate compared to European colleges. |
Anonymous
| My niece was accepted at Northeastern, and they had no housing available on campus for her first semester, but said she could do a study-abroad program. So she chose England, and had a fabulous first semester! She made many good friends, also going to Northeastern. So at first this didn't seem ideal for her first semester, but in the end worked out great. |
Anonymous
+1 Fascinating how little people actually know first hand about some of these colleges, yet take the liberty to try pontificate about them anyway. NEU has not been a commuter school for about 70 years - that is a long time! NEU has always been a top engineering and CS college. Extra fascinating how far some posters will go to try to prove their inaccurate point. Fascinating study in psychology issues! |
Anonymous
It's well after WWII, 60s even 70s that US colleges start surpassing European colleges. Colleges in the US were regarded 2nd and 3rd rate, so top students who really study something went to Euro colleges in France, Germany, UK, etc. NEU haters seem to be stupid. |