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

[Anonymous]

What I gather is Boston is an incredibly difficult admit, with the bulk of the freshmen class starting there.

Then the study abroad programs which are competitive but seemingly populated by wealthy students.

I don't begrudge Northeastern following this formula. Quite a few colleges make allowances for full pay students. Its crosd town rival BU has been doing this since the John Silber days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I gather is Boston is an incredibly difficult admit, with the bulk of the freshmen class starting there.

Then the study abroad programs which are competitive but seemingly populated by wealthy students.

I don't begrudge Northeastern following this formula. Quite a few colleges make allowances for full pay students. Its crosd town rival BU has been doing this since the John Silber days.

+1. BINGO. Among other things - and "former rival".

There are more (worthwhile) schools that have different programs than not. If it is not for you, or your child can not handle overseas, that is fine, but attacking other students is telling. Not good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston is cold.

Yeah, Boston has some good schools but give me California (Stanford, Berkeley, Cal Tech, UCLA, USC, Pomona, Harvey Mudd) any day.

[Anonymous]

I know that NYU does a program called "first year away", so a lot of the selective privates do it.

BU had the (in)famous "CGS"-crayon, glue, scissors school where they stashed full pay students in the College of General Studies. That one was a pretty blatant way to get extra revenue!

Some are a bit more subtle, like Lehigh's new program.

Supposedly NU.in is a lot more desirable option not that it has matured a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know that NYU does a program called "first year away", so a lot of the selective privates do it.

BU had the (in)famous "CGS"-crayon, glue, scissors school where they stashed full pay students in the College of General Studies. That one was a pretty blatant way to get extra revenue!

Some are a bit more subtle, like Lehigh's new program.

Supposedly NU.in is a lot more desirable option not that it has matured a bit.

*now

[Anonymous]

How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

Clearly you do!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know that NYU does a program called "first year away", so a lot of the selective privates do it.

BU had the (in)famous "CGS"-crayon, glue, scissors school where they stashed full pay students in the College of General Studies. That one was a pretty blatant way to get extra revenue!

Some are a bit more subtle, like Lehigh's new program.

Supposedly NU.in is a lot more desirable option not that it has matured a bit.

What is Leigh’s new program you are referring to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone posted the various acceptance rates? As in, to the main campus, Oakland, the other international campuses, etc.

I don't know whether to be impressed that my kid's classmates are attending Northeastern or embarrassed for them (based on how I viewed the school a few decades ago).

Did they do something good, or nah?

Why would you be embarrassed for kids who are heading to college? It is a tough school to get into. Even if they admitted 99% of applicants you should feel happy for them. So rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why this is such a heated topic here. There's no question that NEU has increased in prestige in the last decade. The acceptance rate is 5%, that alone shows that it is in high demand right now. Whether it's top 10, 20, 50 is up for debate, but based on what I'm hearing from DC it is easily in the same consideration set as the lower ivies, top publics, vandy, washu, etc. I personally know a student who took NEU over Cornell this cycle for computer science specifically for the co-op program, even though NEU is more expensive. Students are saavy these days and know how important it is to get job experience.

I went to school in Boston 25 years ago and that’s the reason I didn’t consider it, the co-op. But now it’s valuable to computer science, engineering students and others involved in an ever changing field.

I know the history. It was a school for locals, for mostly men years ago that had to work so they went at night. I saw a graduation video from the early 60s and the program was huge. The school lifted a lot of locals out of low income jobs. Business management was big back then.

They now excel in their engineering and computer science majors in a high tech city with many big hospitals and well known companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

No, but the boosters work overtime to keep this thread alive. All the boosting here has convinced us there is no substance behind the marketing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

No, but the boosters work overtime to keep this thread alive. All the boosting here has convinced us there is no substance behind the marketing.

Your child must’ve been rejected herp derp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

No, but the boosters work overtime to keep this thread alive. All the boosting here has convinced us there is no substance behind the marketing.

Your child must’ve been rejected herp derp.

This is the boosting that makes everyone remind NEU that it is a second or third or fourth tier school in terms of prestige. No ones child was rejected there. Most ppl here would have never considered applying to that school and would not have their child consider it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

No, but the boosters work overtime to keep this thread alive. All the boosting here has convinced us there is no substance behind the marketing.

Your child must’ve been rejected herp derp.

This is the boosting that makes everyone remind NEU that it is a second or third or fourth tier school in terms of prestige. No ones child was rejected there. Most ppl here would have never considered applying to that school and would not have their child consider it.

Why is what NEU students doing or not doing so important to you? Stop obsessing about other people's kids.

Look, we are sorry you were so obviously rejected, but clearly coming here to post about it, including outdated and inaccurate information, and name calling, is not helping you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this thread 33 pages long? Does anyone actually GAF about Northeastern?

No, but the boosters work overtime to keep this thread alive. All the boosting here has convinced us there is no substance behind the marketing.

Your child must’ve been rejected herp derp.

This is the boosting that makes everyone remind NEU that it is a second or third or fourth tier school in terms of prestige. No ones child was rejected there. Most ppl here would have never considered applying to that school and would not have their child consider it.

DP here. LOL. You love that word. Does it help you to keep saying it? So funny!

Why do you and those like you start and/or perpetuate threads about schools you hate and were allegedly rejected from? You are the ones who keep reviving the thread. You seem rather ill.