Many? No. - signed NEU incoming freshman parent |
Uh huh. Sure you are. |
I'm not so sure. At our school very veryfew would turn down an Ivy/Stanford/MIT for ANY school. More often what you see are students who are qualified for the Ivies but rejected that move on down. That's the unfortunate truth for every school except the top 10 or so. |
Yet another DP here who lurks on this thread and has no strong opinion about this school. Both sides are off the rails here, but the people who keep defending the school should just stop. You aren't helping the situation with your defensive tone and relentless chiming in. Just stop and let the thread die. |
Which is more likely: I'm telling the truth (that I have a rising freshman at NEU) or you are telling the truth (many students pick NEU over HYPSM)? |
This is just false. At dc's School the 4 students who got into neu all took them over top 10s, including Caltech. It varies by school. |
Of course it varies, but there's still aggregate data. https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Northeastern+University&with=Stanford+University https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Northeastern+University&with=Brown+University https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Northeastern+University&with=Duke+University |
Dear Pinocchio, School name, pls. |
DP. Yeah, this is laughable. My kuds are at 2 different magnets. Several neu admits. No one is choosing it over T10. The marketer can't stop. Please, can we move on from this? |
This is the funniest thing I have read on DCUM. Thanks for the.laugh!! |
At our school, I know a girl who is going to NEU, who had a choice of Rice and Emory among others. Our instagram school page shows the NEU bound kids, and most we've known since they were in elementary school.
They're all in the "smart" group, the same extracurriculars, etc. Among the younger crowd, whether you want to believe it or not, Northeastern is looked at as a very desireable school. NEU has a reputation of giving very good merit aid. And when schools cost $90k a year, that makes a big difference. However, tere aren't many students turning down Harvard, Yale, etc. for any school. Those schools have yields in the 80th percentile. But the same could be said of any other school not named HYP, Stanford, Princeton and Caltech. |
https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Rice+University&with=Northeastern+University https://www.parchment.com/c/college/tools/college-cross-admit-comparison.php?compare=Emory+University&with=Northeastern+University |
It is the PPs resorting to name calling who can not stop. |
It’s harder to get into because of its admission shenanigans. Do your research. |
Why? There are a lot of people here interested in public universities and everything else that is available. This school is top 10 in a lot of positive lists. And since when do parents choose what their child considers? |