Northeastern kicks out 11 students for not following COVID 19 requirements

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Anonymous wrote:Nearly 1,000 parents paid $70,000 a year for their kids to live in a freaking hotel in Boston?

This is happening all over the country, to spread kids out. There was an article in the Boston Globe this week about kids living at the Westin, the W and some swanky boutique hotels. They seemed to be loving it! My college, in a small midwestern town, has students in 2 local hotels (which are a lot less nice than the W!!).

What is the W?

Here you go.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Hotels

The W in DC is the old Hotel Washington on 15th Street. It was updated to fit with the Ws vibe of course. I’ve stayed at the W in Boston. It’s a pretty nice hotel for a dorm (it’s being used by Emerson College for about 200 students).

Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is a diploma mill that schemes its way up the US News ranking. They overadmit too many students and send them on mandatory $$$$ study abroad freshman year. That's what this was. The study abroad trips were cancelled, but they still wanted the kids' $$$$, so they made them study abroad... in Boston! lol These kids were spending big bucks to live in a Boston Westin hotel, while being under lock down by campus police? Wow just wow.

Wow, just wow. So these kids living in a hotel in Boston (Northeastern's city) on their "study abroad" program. Got it. The poor kids have no semblance of campus life because they are stuck in a hotel and now they are kicked out. What a sickening university...I knew my son was onto something when he had a bad taste in his mouth after his tour two years ago.

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I don't understand what they were supposed to be doing "studying abroad" in Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand what they were supposed to be doing "studying abroad" in Boston.

I'm pretty sure this freshman study abroad scam is actually a mandatory deferment for low stats kids to goose stats they have to submit to US News and juke their ranking

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Can someone explain this to me? Are those 11 students international students from another country?

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me? Are those 11 students international students from another country?

No these are US kids who would have been out of tthe US this year , but because if COVID they have to stay in the US. They likely got an option to stay home but chose the modified location of Boston (?) so they could take classes together and bond.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me? Are those 11 students international students from another country?

No these are US kids who would have been out of tthe US this year , but because if COVID they have to stay in the US. They likely got an option to stay home but chose the modified location of Boston (?) so they could take classes together and bond.

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain this to me? Are those 11 students international students from another country?

No these are US kids who would have been out of tthe US this year , but because if COVID they have to stay in the US. They likely got an option to stay home but chose the modified location of Boston (?) so they could take classes together and bond.

My kids college has a program like this and 1st year students sign up for it. This year they are studying in the main campus, or another satellite US location;

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Anonymous wrote:“ Northeastern has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were discovered together in a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston on Wednesday night, in violation of university and public health protocols that prohibit crowded gatherings.”

No refunds of tuition will be provided.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/09/04/northeastern-dismisses-11-students-for-gathering-in-violation-of-covid-19-policies/

Good for Northeastern. Massachusetts didn’t shut down so Logan airport could open up and let the students come in to party.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ Northeastern has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were discovered together in a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston on Wednesday night, in violation of university and public health protocols that prohibit crowded gatherings.”

No refunds of tuition will be provided.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/09/04/northeastern-dismisses-11-students-for-gathering-in-violation-of-covid-19-policies/

Good for Northeastern. Massachusetts didn’t shut down so Logan airport could open up and let the students come in to party.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

Ahhh you still don’t get it. Kids *spread* it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ Northeastern has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were discovered together in a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston on Wednesday night, in violation of university and public health protocols that prohibit crowded gatherings.”

No refunds of tuition will be provided.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/09/04/northeastern-dismisses-11-students-for-gathering-in-violation-of-covid-19-policies/

Good for Northeastern. Massachusetts didn’t shut down so Logan airport could open up and let the students come in to party.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

Corrections: 1) freshmen 2) And yes an 18yo is technically an adult but most boys don't have a fully developed frontal cortex, which involves decision making, until age 25. So 18 is arbitrary, and this mistake is very understandable. Forty year old are gathering all over the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ Northeastern has dismissed 11 first-year students after they were discovered together in a room at the Westin Hotel in Boston on Wednesday night, in violation of university and public health protocols that prohibit crowded gatherings.”

No refunds of tuition will be provided.

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/09/04/northeastern-dismisses-11-students-for-gathering-in-violation-of-covid-19-policies/

Good for Northeastern. Massachusetts didn’t shut down so Logan airport could open up and let the students come in to party.

They expelled th for a gathering of 11 off campus?? Freaking insane. I would be irate.

Good, you *should* be irate (at your idiot child).

I would not be happy with my kid, no. But the school should have suspended them, sent them home for online only this year. Expelling **freshman** for a gathering of 11 in a hotel that is not even on their campus when they are lonely and on their own for the first time, and then keeping all the tuition on 9/4, is outrageous. Kids make errors. Adults are making all kinds of errors--none of us has lived in a pandemic pretty much, and it is not even an Ebola pandemic. The kids are facing what is basically going to be a bad cold for them. So any school that expels for this mistake is greedy and stupid. Northeastern is a subpar school anyways--always has been too.

Corrections: 1) freshmen 2) And yes an 18yo is technically an adult but most boys don't have a fully developed frontal cortex, which involves decision making, until age 25. So 18 is arbitrary, and this mistake is very understandable. Forty year old are gathering all over the country.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand what they were supposed to be doing "studying abroad" in Boston.

I'm pretty sure this freshman study abroad scam is actually a mandatory deferment for low stats kids to goose stats they have to submit to US News and juke their ranking

+1

[Anonymous]

These kids deserve to be kicked out, but the school should refund a majority of the tuition. Otherwise it looks like a money grep scheme.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These kids deserve to be kicked out, but the school should refund a majority of the tuition. Otherwise it looks like a money grep scheme.

That doesn’t teach them anything.