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

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Anonymous wrote:Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…

Great episode confirming a few of my suspicions. You can almost see it on our hs’s Scattergrams. I think they grab these full pay kids with 1200s on the SAT but TO. The yield is sky high for this cohort.

I just listened to this. I can't believe that Northeastern only counts the admit rate to their Boston campus to make the admit rate seem a lot lower than it is. It seems that most kids get admitted through the other transfer options.

Makes sense. Northeastern is synonymous with the Boston campus. No one cares about Oakland or London.

One can quibble about the admit tactics, but it's obviously evident that it's Boston campus is a popular and desirable location for admission.

When you apply, do you have a choice in the matter? Or are you just told " congrats you have been accepted to the Oakland campus"? I'm a mom of a junior and so all of this is very new.

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Anonymous wrote:Marketing. DC keeps receiving unsolicited marketing mail from NEU.

My kid started receiving from 9th grade…no interest.

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Anonymous wrote:Marketing. DC keeps receiving unsolicited marketing mail from NEU.

My kid started receiving from 9th grade…no interest.

Interesting. They have not marketed in many years.

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My child was accepted to NU in London. They do not allow any financial aid for that first year, which is ridiculous. She chose a Virginia university instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Marketing. DC keeps receiving unsolicited marketing mail from NEU.

My kid started receiving from 9th grade…no interest.

Interesting. They have not marketed in many years.

What’s interesting about it??? It’s the truth. In fact, NEU was the first school to mail my daughter a brochure very early into 9th grade and did not stop with marketing mail until just before application deadlines.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…

But why does it matter so much to you? Ask yourself that question. There are few schools that garner this much attention. Your kid knows it matters so much to you. You are hurting your kid by posting here so often, about the same subject. You need to move on - it is not good for your family.

Your frequent posting detracts from your argument. Of course people who have a positive experience with a school are going to correct you. What did you expect? Parents should not need a book or a podcast or whatever to lead them in the right direction - for THEIR kid. Every kid is different. Parents should be visiting schools, talking to alum, and doing their research first hand. Be the parent.

Decide that you are okay with your kid not being admitted. Decide to be okay with your kid. Decide to find a place where your kid shines. You are the parent - be the parent. Coming here and posting may make you feel good and give you a minor shot of dopamine for a millisecond, but how is it helping your family? How is the instant gratification helping your family? How is the lack of impulse control helping your family? If posting here so often truly helped you at all, you would not keep coming back to the same topic to post.

Think of the long term, and how you can find the best fit for YOUR student, and make decisions in a positive direction. Do not take time away from your family in a negative direction.

Woah. Misdirected fire. My oldest is a HS junior and I've never had any particular interest in Northeastern. The first time I clicked this thread was after I listened to the YCBK episode and realized part of it was right on-point for the thread's title so worth a quick share. Just trying to be helpful for the folks who are interested in the school--of which there obviously are lots. But do carry on; I won't be back.

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Fascinating how many parents chime in to claim they are not interested. Do other schools glean this much feigned lack of interest?

Lol.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…

For those who don't want to take the time to listen, I made a highlights transcript below:

Mark: This is an interesting conversation I can have with you. What are schools that when you see who they admit, rate it feels different than their admit rate? Because I have some on my list so for example, like Bates and Colby they present is single digit rates in regular decision, but I definitely see those schools take kids that you think a single digit admit school wouldn’t take. in regular decision. And Northeastern, I see Northeastern gobble up full pay families like you know they might send you they might send you to Mills out in California or send you overseas, but they’re not the 5 to 6% admit rates selectivity in terms of who I see get admitted there. Any thoughts on that?

Julia: I am still perplexed by Northeastern, especially this year. I was actually shocked at some students they took and they all had being full pay in common.

Mark: They’re clearly need aware. So they made a decision a while ago to say they’d meet 100% of need. Sometimes when a school maybe doesn’t have the highest endowment per student and all of a sudden they say that they’re meeting 100% in need, I’m very suspect Because, like what are you doing to get there? Are you counting all of home equity in your equation or are you denying? Are you so need aware need conscious that you’re just identifying those full pays to do it? And if you’re an amazing kid and you’re needy, like it’s a completely different standard? I’m not in that office, but this is what I see. I see I saw multiple kids this year that didn’t get in like Florida State in-state and then they get in Northeastern and they’re talking about 5, 6% admit rate.

Julia: ’s easy to apply because there’s no essay…I would say close to half of my students who apply if not more get some kind of an in, so they’re an admit, whether it be to a different campus like and you and whatever it is, but we are we are a lovely school, but we’re not that kind of school. We should not have over 25 students getting into Northeastern if their admit rate really is that low.

Mark: They do something to me which is really gimmicky. When they present their early action admit rate, they present the Boston statistics. They don’t count the Mills College or the overseas option. They don’t count those—the one semester or the full year abroad. They set those up so their a transfer pathway, and so it’s just a really gimmicky thing to look more selective than you actually are.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…

Great episode confirming a few of my suspicions. You can almost see it on our hs’s Scattergrams. I think they grab these full pay kids with 1200s on the SAT but TO. The yield is sky high for this cohort.

I just listened to this. I can't believe that Northeastern only counts the admit rate to their Boston campus to make the admit rate seem a lot lower than it is. It seems that most kids get admitted through the other transfer options.

Makes sense. Northeastern is synonymous with the Boston campus. No one cares about Oakland or London.

One can quibble about the admit tactics, but it's obviously evident that it's Boston campus is a popular and desirable location for admission.

When you apply, do you have a choice in the matter? Or are you just told " congrats you have been accepted to the Oakland campus"? I'm a mom of a junior and so all of this is very new.

You don’t really have a choice. They ask “are you willing to be off Boston campus freshman year” but it’s largely ignored.

If neu is your top choice nuin and global scholars are a viable way to get there. Just know what you are getting into.
The parents Fb page currently has 2 + posts about parents complaining their nuin kdid did not adjust well. Several are planning to transfer, and are asking “when did it get better for your kid”
Got housed with people they didn’t know, often upperclassmen because that’s who goes on coop. There’s even an upper-class parent complaining their kid got some of those Jan freshman and it did not go well. So just know the facts going in—housing can be a bit rough and transitional.
Me personally I cannot imagine my kid doing well with a semester abroad then being assigned housing with random strangers for Jan in Boston. So they turned down their NUIn offer and chose somewhere else.

Also know that with the economy the way it is, coops are much more challenging to get. If tech companies are layingoff people they likely are not hiring coops. So you have to work extremely hard to find coops now, and might not succeed

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Anonymous wrote:My child was accepted to NU in London. They do not allow any financial aid for that first year, which is ridiculous. She chose a Virginia university instead.

Most of the nuin/global scholars are rich kids/full pay. Because nobody needing fa would seriously consider attending a 90k school without some fa.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…

Great episode confirming a few of my suspicions. You can almost see it on our hs’s Scattergrams. I think they grab these full pay kids with 1200s on the SAT but TO. The yield is sky high for this cohort.

I just listened to this. I can't believe that Northeastern only counts the admit rate to their Boston campus to make the admit rate seem a lot lower than it is. It seems that most kids get admitted through the other transfer options.

Makes sense. Northeastern is synonymous with the Boston campus. No one cares about Oakland or London.

One can quibble about the admit tactics, but it's obviously evident that it's Boston campus is a popular and desirable location for admission.

When you apply, do you have a choice in the matter? Or are you just told " congrats you have been accepted to the Oakland campus"? I'm a mom of a junior and so all of this is very new.

You don’t really have a choice. They ask “are you willing to be off Boston campus freshman year” but it’s largely ignored.

If neu is your top choice nuin and global scholars are a viable way to get there. Just know what you are getting into.
The parents Fb page currently has 2 + posts about parents complaining their nuin kdid did not adjust well. Several are planning to transfer, and are asking “when did it get better for your kid”
Got housed with people they didn’t know, often upperclassmen because that’s who goes on coop. There’s even an upper-class parent complaining their kid got some of those Jan freshman and it did not go well. So just know the facts going in—housing can be a bit rough and transitional.
Me personally I cannot imagine my kid doing well with a semester abroad then being assigned housing with random strangers for Jan in Boston. So they turned down their NUIn offer and chose somewhere else.

Also know that with the economy the way it is, coops are much more challenging to get. If tech companies are layingoff people they likely are not hiring coops. So you have to work extremely hard to find coops now, and might not succeed

Thank you! Your post was very helpful. I think William & Mary offers a similar pathway for spring admits (when you have to go abroad or community college for the fall). They, have same housing issues where those who choose this pathway will often be housed with upperclassmen when they get on campus. I think with college being such a new and challenging experience for many 18 year olds, I wouldn't want my kid to have to go abroad immediately before starting on campus.

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I wonder what percentage of students get accepted via the other pathways (non Boston direct admit).

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Anonymous wrote:Marketing. DC keeps receiving unsolicited marketing mail from NEU.

My kid started receiving from 9th grade…no interest.

Interesting. They have not marketed in many years.

NEU doesn't market that way. Troll lie failure for the person who said they did!

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NEU Boston has 2,500-3,000 or so freshmen. NU.in and Global Scholars has about 1300. You apply to the whatever program/campus you want. Many choose NU.in, especially the more wealthy students. A Boston admit is a very hard proposition.

NEU's yield for Boston is 50%. With almost 100,000 applications for the 3,000 slots, it is hard to get in.

The acceptance rate for NU.in has reported to be much easier, closer to 25%, versus Boston's 6% rate. NEU typically takes 34% of its Boston class Early Decision.

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Anonymous wrote:Mark and Julia pull back the curtain on Northeastern’s faux-selectivity on the latest episode of YCBK. Unlike the posters here, they’re not anonymous and they’re not ignorant…

For those who don't want to take the time to listen, I made a highlights transcript below:

Mark: This is an interesting conversation I can have with you. What are schools that when you see who they admit, rate it feels different than their admit rate? Because I have some on my list so for example, like Bates and Colby they present is single digit rates in regular decision, but I definitely see those schools take kids that you think a single digit admit school wouldn’t take. in regular decision. And Northeastern, I see Northeastern gobble up full pay families like you know they might send you they might send you to Mills out in California or send you overseas, but they’re not the 5 to 6% admit rates selectivity in terms of who I see get admitted there. Any thoughts on that?

Julia: I am still perplexed by Northeastern, especially this year. I was actually shocked at some students they took and they all had being full pay in common.

Mark: They’re clearly need aware. So they made a decision a while ago to say they’d meet 100% of need. Sometimes when a school maybe doesn’t have the highest endowment per student and all of a sudden they say that they’re meeting 100% in need, I’m very suspect Because, like what are you doing to get there? Are you counting all of home equity in your equation or are you denying? Are you so need aware need conscious that you’re just identifying those full pays to do it? And if you’re an amazing kid and you’re needy, like it’s a completely different standard? I’m not in that office, but this is what I see. I see I saw multiple kids this year that didn’t get in like Florida State in-state and then they get in Northeastern and they’re talking about 5, 6% admit rate.

Julia: ’s easy to apply because there’s no essay…I would say close to half of my students who apply if not more get some kind of an in, so they’re an admit, whether it be to a different campus like and you and whatever it is, but we are we are a lovely school, but we’re not that kind of school. We should not have over 25 students getting into Northeastern if their admit rate really is that low.

Mark: They do something to me which is really gimmicky. When they present their early action admit rate, they present the Boston statistics. They don’t count the Mills College or the overseas option. They don’t count those—the one semester or the full year abroad. They set those up so their a transfer pathway, and so it’s just a really gimmicky thing to look more selective than you actually are.

I’m guessing Milton’s admit rate goes down next year….