Scathing Summary of Northeastern Admissions
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Anonymous
| Northeastern is meant for B and C students . And that’s all right |
Anonymous
Take your medicine. You'll be ok. |
Anonymous
| Northeastern is in a great location in Boston, which is a very safe city and probably the best place to go to college in America. And their claim to fame is their coop program, which is very appealing to students worried about finding jobs in this day and age. A not unreasonable worry given how AI is destroying opportunities for young people. Northeastern is a very practical school in a great city. It's not a surprise they get more than 100,000 applications. |
Anonymous
Totally weird. So much hate for the school but still applied for 'back-up'. 
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Anonymous
My kids never got waiver. They are enjoying the revenue from the application fees. As explained earlier, the whole purpose of those essays is for schools to select highly qualified students who are the right fit. It’s not meant to make students’ lives more difficult. Northeastern is already doing an excellent job in this regard, and its retention rate is top-notch(T20 level) as a result. If a school picks the right students, they stay. Schools already have plenty of data and information to make these decisions; Northeastern doesn't need dumb supplemental essays to gather more information to pick the right candidates. No need to make lives of students unnecessarily more difficult. There are other highly ranked schools without supplemental essays, but they don't get 100K+ apps. |
Anonymous
This 1000% NEU is a good school. Their marketing is brilliant, as they manage to make $$$ off the "Spring start/first year abroad or elsewhere" by making you attend their programs (most other schools just have spring start or guaranteed fall sophomore transfer, but you don't attend their schools before that). And yes, no supplementals and being in Boston (which is a great place to spend 4 years in college) and free application for many is a way to ensure tons of applications....what do you have to loose? No extra work and at most a $75 application fee. But talk to students and parents of current students. NEU has grown very fast without NEU having proper plans in place for all the required infrastructure. How great is the coop program when your kid applies to 250+ places and gets no interviews (and these are kids with 3.8+ GPAs at NEU)? It's becoming difficult to find coops in the last 3 years (partly due to economy and also due to an additional 4-5K students on campus searching the same network for coops). When my kid was accepted to "first year abroad" the program was offered but not fully planned yet. My engineering major would only have had 1 calculus course to take that first year (in spring semester) because nothing else was offered (only calc 1 and 2 were offered in fall semester). Who becomes an engineering major without taking calculus fall freshman year (HINT: no one should do that it's the basis of the major). Same for Chemistry (as a Chem Eng major). So we smartly decided it wasn't the best program for our kid. But the parents pages were filled with parents trying to justify joining this program despite all the issues with academics the first year and questioning if they should choose another option (most of them did just like my kid and selected another acceptance). But we were not paying $85K for first year (no dining/food included in that, so in reality it would be $95K plus airfare), to not have meaningful courses to take that would keep my kid on track to graduate in 5 years with 2-3 coops. The only way to stay on track might have been to take multiple courses in the summer sessions---and I don't believe most STEM courses (think Orgo, Calc3/4 and more) are the best courses to take in a 5-6week session to actually learn the material |
Anonymous
Most of the other good ones have supplemental essays. |
Anonymous
Same! My kid was in at Tufts, Rochester, CWRU and WPI, and first year abroad at NEU. They happily turned down NEU and are not at Tufts either (as the other 3 are much better choices for engineering) |
Anonymous
Because it's literally a click and submit and pay your application fee (which is free much of the time if you toured). No work, no cost (or minimal), if Boston is where you want to be, why not apply? |
Anonymous
| Agree 100% |
Anonymous
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Every year when rejections come out (and for Northeastern because they send out 90,000 rejections) we get the same bitter types complaining about how Northeastern is the worst school in the world because of whatever. And the 60 and 70 year old boomers chime in because they remember when Northeastern was a commuter school.
It's an interesting mix, like if you combined the crowds at Walmart with the local motor vehicle department. |
Anonymous
Troll. I have zero connection to Northeastern but your post is just dumb. |
Anonymous
So mad their kid didn't get into the "commuter school". |
Anonymous
Most of them don't do better job selecting high stat well fit students even with dumb supplemental essays. That's a shame. Supplemental essays don't have any value in itself. |
Anonymous
There are 100 other colleges in the Boston area, but you had to apply Northeastern even if you hate the school so much. No wonder it gets 100K+ apps. Even avid haters can't resist applying 
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