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

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our school, I know a girl who is going to NEU, who had a choice of Rice and Emory among others.

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

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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.

I am not sure if it is all hype or not, but purportedly it has a better placement rate for med school than Boston University The co-op program alllows that part of the med school application to stand out. I guess med schools are looking at work in a health field as a big positive, and in lower socio-economic settings even more so. The Northeastern health co-ops take advantage of that I guess.

There are several very strong programs at Northeastern, and med school placement is just one small part of it. OP and their ilk having periodic mental breakdowns over this fact is not going to change anything.

Agree, it's why you see many students taking NEU over HYPSM, those schools don't have good job prospects compared to neu, it's ultimately about the pocket book, and it only helps that NEU is harder to get into than half those schools.

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.

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.

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?

It is the PPs resorting to name calling who can not stop.

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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.

I am not sure if it is all hype or not, but purportedly it has a better placement rate for med school than Boston University The co-op program alllows that part of the med school application to stand out. I guess med schools are looking at work in a health field as a big positive, and in lower socio-economic settings even more so. The Northeastern health co-ops take advantage of that I guess.

There are several very strong programs at Northeastern, and med school placement is just one small part of it. OP and their ilk having periodic mental breakdowns over this fact is not going to change anything.

Agree, it's why you see many students taking NEU over HYPSM, those schools don't have good job prospects compared to neu, it's ultimately about the pocket book, and it only helps that NEU is harder to get into than half those schools.

Many? No.

- signed NEU incoming freshman parent

It’s harder to get into because of its admission shenanigans. Do your research.

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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? 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?

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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? 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?

DP. Agreed with you until the top 10 reference. No, it is not. What is it with these marketers? Or, is this just kids trying to wind us up? I really wish the booster/marketer would stop the inflated claims. It is a fine school, leave it at that and move on!

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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.

I am not sure if it is all hype or not, but purportedly it has a better placement rate for med school than Boston University The co-op program alllows that part of the med school application to stand out. I guess med schools are looking at work in a health field as a big positive, and in lower socio-economic settings even more so. The Northeastern health co-ops take advantage of that I guess.

Yes. And it’s no more hype than any other college. I didn’t mention the health co-ops because I personally don’t know much about them. But I can’t think of a better place to do a co-op in the health field than Boston. They have a trauma hospital, they Dana Farber, Mass General, Tufts Health Center, Brigham & Women’s plus hundreds more in a 15 mile radius.

It’s surpassing BU in a lot of ways. I don’t know why that bothers people.

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Anonymous wrote:At our school, I know a girl who is going to NEU, who had a choice of Rice and Emory among others.

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

Not sure how reliable parchment is when the sample size is so small. It's been shown it has little validity for most comparisons. The same parchment says 60% choose Harvard, and 40% choose Northeastern. That figure isn't accurate.

But it looks like 1/3 of the kids go to Northeastern and 2/3 go to Emory. Parchment also claims that 20% choose Emory over Harvard. I very seriously doubt that. Harvard's yield is 80%. And of the 20% who decline Harvard, the vast majority are doing so for Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, not Emory.

Parchment also says that 2/3 of students choose Northeastern, and 1/3 choose Boston University. I would venture that the sample size is much larger and that probably is decently accurate.

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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.

I am not sure if it is all hype or not, but purportedly it has a better placement rate for med school than Boston University The co-op program alllows that part of the med school application to stand out. I guess med schools are looking at work in a health field as a big positive, and in lower socio-economic settings even more so. The Northeastern health co-ops take advantage of that I guess.

Yes. And it’s no more hype than any other college. I didn’t mention the health co-ops because I personally don’t know much about them. But I can’t think of a better place to do a co-op in the health field than Boston. They have a trauma hospital, they Dana Farber, Mass General, Tufts Health Center, Brigham & Women’s plus hundreds more in a 15 mile radius.

It’s surpassing BU in a lot of ways. I don’t know why that bothers people.

I would choose BU for communications, political science/international relations. Northeastern for comp sci, engineering, medical/health majors.

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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.

I am not sure if it is all hype or not, but purportedly it has a better placement rate for med school than Boston University The co-op program alllows that part of the med school application to stand out. I guess med schools are looking at work in a health field as a big positive, and in lower socio-economic settings even more so. The Northeastern health co-ops take advantage of that I guess.

Yes. And it’s no more hype than any other college. I didn’t mention the health co-ops because I personally don’t know much about them. But I can’t think of a better place to do a co-op in the health field than Boston. They have a trauma hospital, they Dana Farber, Mass General, Tufts Health Center, Brigham & Women’s plus hundreds more in a 15 mile radius.

It’s surpassing BU in a lot of ways. I don’t know why that bothers people.

+1. OP and friends have many issues - this is just one.

[Anonymous]

For those looking for medical school, this is from Tufts University's Medical School:

Class of 2027
https://medicine.tufts.edu/academics/medicine/class-profile


Undergrad Institutions Represented
(schools contributing 4 or more students)
Tufts University: 31
Northeastern University: 10
Boston College: 7
Johns Hopkins University: 7
Bates College: 6
Cornell University: 6
University of California-Los Angeles: 6
Washington University in St. Louis: 6
New York University: 5
Middlebury College: 4

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Anonymous wrote:At our school, I know a girl who is going to NEU, who had a choice of Rice and Emory among others.

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

Not sure how reliable parchment is when the sample size is so small. It's been shown it has little validity for most comparisons. The same parchment says 60% choose Harvard, and 40% choose Northeastern. That figure isn't accurate.

But it looks like 1/3 of the kids go to Northeastern and 2/3 go to Emory. Parchment also claims that 20% choose Emory over Harvard. I very seriously doubt that. Harvard's yield is 80%. And of the 20% who decline Harvard, the vast majority are doing so for Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT, not Emory.

Parchment also says that 2/3 of students choose Northeastern, and 1/3 choose Boston University. I would venture that the sample size is much larger and that probably is decently accurate.

You clearly didn't read the website and its notations about statistical confidence levels carefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those looking for medical school, this is from Tufts University's Medical School:

Class of 2027
https://medicine.tufts.edu/academics/medicine/class-profile


Undergrad Institutions Represented
(schools contributing 4 or more students)
Tufts University: 31
Northeastern University: 10
Boston College: 7
Johns Hopkins University: 7
Bates College: 6
Cornell University: 6
University of California-Los Angeles: 6
Washington University in St. Louis: 6
New York University: 5
Middlebury College: 4

Impressive!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

NEU does NOT give good merit aid. Very few students get actual Merit. Know 5 kids (including my own) who got in and none got aid.

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If I ultimately wanted to go to medical school, I would choose NU (they don't go by NEU anymore) bc their students have an over 80% medical school acceptance rate. The national average for other colleges is just over 40%. The co-ops make their applications stand out.