At first I thought it was some new and interesting information about NEU. Then I realized that article is more than 10 years old. And the worst "gaming" was going after high SAT kids, back when US News cared about such a thing. Since US News doesn't care about SAT scores or acceptance rates, why do I care about an article a decade old? Parenthetically, at lease NEU didn't outright cheat like Columbia University. Sounds like Northeastern played by the rules |
I guess you turn your nose up to Boston College also? Because a couple of decades before Northeastern was a commuter school, so was BC. https://beacon.bc.edu/the-long-view/ But by 1964, when he graduated, Pat had begun to see rapid change on the horizon with the opening of three residence halls—Roncalli, Williams, and Walsh—to accommodate the growing number of students who needed to live at the Heights. “Boston College was considered a commuter school back then,” says Pat Stokes. “And now students come from across the country and all over the world,” he continues. “We have some of the top programs, and we are recognized throughout the United States.” |
What about it? it basically says Northeastern played by the rules and actually improved in the areas considered important while there were schools cheated to climb up rankings. We in fact have recent cases of cheating such as UCBerkeley, Columbia, Emory etc. |
The sockpuppet from the last three comments needs to better time their posts to be more convincing. |
MIT was also mainly considered a trade school until 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology "Still, as late as 1949, the Lewis Committee lamented in its report on the state of education at MIT that "the Institute is widely conceived as basically a vocational school" Every school started small and local. What matters is today. |
They boost NEU like it’s there job |
Out of curiousity, what school did you attend? Because your antipathy towards NEU is pretty jarring. |
Northeastern was not a commuter school in 1996. Maybe in 1956 - I actually know someone who attended during that time. NEU was always a top engineering school and still is. In fact, BU has always been a commuter school, and MIT and Harvard both started as commuter schools. It is not as if any of those are commuter schools current day, such as Mason. |
+1 The but it WAS....it USED TO BE, etc.. need to get a grip. |
+1. Psychotic, is more like it. OP, whom are you targeting? Someone in particular? You do not seem stable. I can not believe this thread has not been locked. |
It was! I know some fascinating stories about MIT alum and how they paid for school just before that era. I think Mason might be what OP is thinking of? |
LOL OP gets paid a nickel for each time they use that word. DELICIOUS. |
Oh wow, are you attacking someone personally? Gee, I hope not. That would not be very smart. Are you really wondering why NEU said no to you? Still? Yikes. |
Did you even read the article? https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/ "In 1996, Richard Freeland looked across the sea of crumbling parking lots that was Northeastern University and saw an opportunity few others could. As the school’s new president, he had inherited a third-tier, blue-collar, commuter-based university whose defining campus feature was a collection of modest utilitarian buildings south of Huntington Avenue, with a sprinkling of newly planted trees." |
I am telling you, it might make for a good story for those who don't know any better - but it was not primarily a commuter school in 1996. Yes, it sounds much better to read as a rags to riches story, I will give it that. It even provides fodder for OP and those like them. What else would they do with their time, if not come to an anonymous board to pout about a school that rejected them for obvious reasons? |