Scathing Summary of Northeastern Admissions

[Anonymous]

Other than the manipulated acceptance rate of Northeastern and their relentless quest to mislead, there appears to be no substantive difference between NEU and Drexel.

That's not a knock on Drexel, I think it's a great program. But they haven't created the marketing illusion and trickery of its Boston twin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is meant for B and C students .

That's a weird statement, as my son - with straight A's in a very demanding high school program - was pretty excited about Northeastern. He got in, and has had a great experience. (He's graduating in a few weeks in 4 years, with 2 co-ops, and has a permanent job lined up with one of his co-op employers)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is meant for B and C students .

That's a weird statement, as my son - with straight A's in a very demanding high school program - was pretty excited about Northeastern. He got in, and has had a great experience. (He's graduating in a few weeks in 4 years, with 2 co-ops, and has a permanent job lined up with one of his co-op employers)

NEU = solid outcomes / good experiences. All the rest is noise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is meant for B and C students .

That's a weird statement, as my son - with straight A's in a very demanding high school program - was pretty excited about Northeastern. He got in, and has had a great experience. (He's graduating in a few weeks in 4 years, with 2 co-ops, and has a permanent job lined up with one of his co-op employers)

NEU = solid outcomes / good experiences. All the rest is noise.

THIS. Our child is similar, also graduating on time, also had great co-op experiences, also employed. The co-ops are competitive, they aren't handed out - you have to apply, I terview, and receive an offer.

See you at Fenway

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is meant for B and C students .

That's a weird statement, as my son - with straight A's in a very demanding high school program - was pretty excited about Northeastern. He got in, and has had a great experience. (He's graduating in a few weeks in 4 years, with 2 co-ops, and has a permanent job lined up with one of his co-op employers)

NEU = solid outcomes / good experiences. All the rest is noise.

THIS. Our child is similar, also graduating on time, also had great co-op experiences, also employed. The co-ops are competitive, they aren't handed out - you have to apply, I terview, and receive an offer.

See you at Fenway

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:only 31% submit test scores. 69% of freshman rank in top 10% of class. acceptance rate is low along with student quality

And remember those stats are for the subset of students they report data on, i.e. does not include the students starting late, abroad or at other campuses.

And those "off Boston start" students are not really lower stats. With 100K+ students to choose from, there are plenty of high stats kids. Most off Boston start are high income, as FA doesn't apply at all of the programs.

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Anonymous wrote:Given that over 100,000 students apply annually, many disagree with you. But hey, you do you - that they are living rent free in your head does say something about you though

100,000 students apply because they want to go to school in Boston (a great city for college students), NEU misleads itself as a selective institution, and if you tour NEU they send you a waiver for a free application (they did this for our DS) and then the application on the Common App requires zero supplemental essays. So it's a bit of mindless but relatively easy work to fill out. My son toured and didn't think it was a great fit for him but he wanted to attend college in Boston, and the application was free and easy. So he'd get counted in their "high demand" but no it's just easy and no cost to apply.

There are around 100 colleges in the Boston metropolitan area.
Northeastern is the only one getting 100K+ apps for good reasons.

yes PP just explained why. many students get a free waiver for the application tour, and then there are no supplements or essays or videos or interviews so the application is relatively easy to add.

by contrast, BU has 2 supplemental essays, optional writing sample, glimpse video and requires demonstrated interests so they know you're seriously applying. tufts also has 2 custom supplemental essays required, an optional interview, and lots of demonstrated interest (like virtual tours and mock classes) so that they know you are seriously interested. it's hard therefore to "casually" apply to these other two Boston area schools vs NEU.

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.

Well CWRU is a great school but it's in Cleveland. Cleveland vs Boston---no comparison. If CWRU was in Boston, they too would get 100K+ applicants (and still have no supplements)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:only 31% submit test scores. 69% of freshman rank in top 10% of class. acceptance rate is low along with student quality

And remember those stats are for the subset of students they report data on, i.e. does not include the students starting late, abroad or at other campuses.

And those "off Boston start" students are not really lower stats. With 100K+ students to choose from, there are plenty of high stats kids. Most off Boston start are high income, as FA doesn't apply at all of the programs.

Absolutely incorrect. The "off Boston" students are really lower stats in all categories except capacity to full pay. Many of those slots are offered to full-pay ED kids that don't get into Boston. Note that they don't report test scores and GPA of the "alt campus" kids and would, of course, do so if it wouldn't drag their mirage down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:only 31% submit test scores. 69% of freshman rank in top 10% of class. acceptance rate is low along with student quality

And remember those stats are for the subset of students they report data on, i.e. does not include the students starting late, abroad or at other campuses.

And those "off Boston start" students are not really lower stats. With 100K+ students to choose from, there are plenty of high stats kids. Most off Boston start are high income, as FA doesn't apply at all of the programs.

Absolutely incorrect. The "off Boston" students are really lower stats in all categories except capacity to full pay. Many of those slots are offered to full-pay ED kids that don't get into Boston. Note that they don't report test scores and GPA of the "alt campus" kids and would, of course, do so if it wouldn't drag their mirage down.

My kid with a 1550 got a London start. He was super excited about it initially (EA), but has moved on to other acceptances and will like turn NEU down. But it’s a great program that appeals to a lot of kids, including the high-stats kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:only 31% submit test scores. 69% of freshman rank in top 10% of class. acceptance rate is low along with student quality

And remember those stats are for the subset of students they report data on, i.e. does not include the students starting late, abroad or at other campuses.

And those "off Boston start" students are not really lower stats. With 100K+ students to choose from, there are plenty of high stats kids. Most off Boston start are high income, as FA doesn't apply at all of the programs.

Absolutely incorrect. The "off Boston" students are really lower stats in all categories except capacity to full pay. Many of those slots are offered to full-pay ED kids that don't get into Boston. Note that they don't report test scores and GPA of the "alt campus" kids and would, of course, do so if it wouldn't drag their mirage down.

Wrong. Sorry you wish to think that. While acceptance to Boston is essentially a lottery, NU.in has high stats students. When you get 100k students Northeastern can be pretty picky in the slots given. ED to Boston has exploded and there only 3000 students can be enrolled. So once you factor in the spillover of these high stat students, it doesn't take a lot of effort to fill the 1,400 NU.in slots.

[Anonymous]

And therefore they don’t report the stats of the NU.in students because……….?

When your application is a click-n-pay, you get plenty of volume. They know the game, the head of admissions mastered it at Tulane.

That said, all of these posters are reinforcement and affirmation that the manipulation and message deception is a legitimately effective strategy. Kudos the NU. I don’t like the game but they play it well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And therefore they don’t report the stats of the NU.in students because……….?

When your application is a click-n-pay, you get plenty of volume. They know the game, the head of admissions mastered it at Tulane.

That said, all of these posters are reinforcement and affirmation that the manipulation and message deception is a legitimately effective strategy. Kudos the NU. I don’t like the game but they play it well.

Curious what the admission stats are for BU's spring admit program? Or NYU's?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And therefore they don’t report the stats of the NU.in students because……….?

When your application is a click-n-pay, you get plenty of volume. They know the game, the head of admissions mastered it at Tulane.

That said, all of these posters are reinforcement and affirmation that the manipulation and message deception is a legitimately effective strategy. Kudos the NU. I don’t like the game but they play it well.

How so?

My kid applied because they like the programs, campus, internships, Boston, etc.

They also looked at Drexel but didn’t like the campus or Philly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And therefore they don’t report the stats of the NU.in students because……….?

When your application is a click-n-pay, you get plenty of volume. They know the game, the head of admissions mastered it at Tulane.

That said, all of these posters are reinforcement and affirmation that the manipulation and message deception is a legitimately effective strategy. Kudos the NU. I don’t like the game but they play it well.

How so?

My kid applied because they like the programs, campus, internships, Boston, etc.

They also looked at Drexel but didn’t like the campus or Philly.

They is plural unless you are for some strange reason trying to mask your child's gender. Why the weird use of they all over this forum...like people are worried they will expose their child if they share their gender? Strange indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And therefore they don’t report the stats of the NU.in students because……….?

When your application is a click-n-pay, you get plenty of volume. They know the game, the head of admissions mastered it at Tulane.

That said, all of these posters are reinforcement and affirmation that the manipulation and message deception is a legitimately effective strategy. Kudos the NU. I don’t like the game but they play it well.

How so?

My kid applied because they like the programs, campus, internships, Boston, etc.

They also looked at Drexel but didn’t like the campus or Philly.

They is plural unless you are for some strange reason trying to mask your child's gender. Why the weird use of they all over this forum...like people are worried they will expose their child if they share their gender? Strange indeed.

Ok bigot.