NorthEastern University in Boston - weirded out.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s at the very least the seventh best school in Boston.

Very least or very best?

I would put Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, Tufts, Wellesley and Brandeis above NEU.

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Anonymous wrote:Visited the school and had a chance to speak in-depth with a group of both current students and alumni. How is it that this school comes off as so... insecure? Two people separately, unprompted, told me confidently that "in just a few years" NEU will be a Top 20 or Top 15 school. And NEU boosters will group it together with other top universities. It makes no sense; is it the most overrated school? Blech.

We toured the school last year during Covid after being admitted there. They were willing to offer in-person tours when everyone other school was shut down for that purpose. The tour was professional and the tour guide said that he turned down some other "top schools" to go there. He of course refused to share what they were. We thought the facilities were quite good as well and the outcomes based on alumni we talked to and online feedback was pretty good too! Not once did rankings come up.

DC really liked it and preferred it over UMD (which was another choice) but in the end decided to go to a T20 school in the mid-west.

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Anonymous wrote:Visited the school and had a chance to speak in-depth with a group of both current students and alumni. How is it that this school comes off as so... insecure? Two people separately, unprompted, told me confidently that "in just a few years" NEU will be a Top 20 or Top 15 school. And NEU boosters will group it together with other top universities. It makes no sense; is it the most overrated school? Blech.

We toured the school last year during Covid after being admitted there. They were willing to offer in-person tours when everyone other school was shut down for that purpose. The tour was professional and the tour guide said that he turned down some other "top schools" to go there. He of course refused to share what they were. We thought the facilities were quite good as well and the outcomes based on alumni we talked to and online feedback was pretty good too! Not once did rankings come up.

DC really liked it and preferred it over UMD (which was another choice) but in the end decided to go to a T20 school in the mid-west.

Your DC made the wise choice.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the West Coast, never heard of it.

From the Midwest, lived in CA before going to going to college in NY and didn't hear about Northeastern until after I graduated college.

I'm a local here, graduated from college almost 25 years ago. I still never heard of many of the colleges people mention on here.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the West Coast, never heard of it.

From the Midwest, lived in CA before going to going to college in NY and didn't hear about Northeastern until after I graduated college.

I'm a local here, graduated from college almost 25 years ago. I still never heard of many of the colleges people mention on here.

And, a lot of people at my high school applied to at least 1 university in either Boston or NY. I ultimately declined going up to Boston, but it was a top 3 choice. I just could not see myself attending college in what, to a Washingtonian, would feel like nowhere U.S.A., and I did not want to stay local here or go out to the west coast. So, there's Boston, NY. . .

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Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

I cringe reading what you post. The way you trash swaths of people you don't even know. So hateful. Perhaps the Northeastern folks give you that garlic to a vampire reaction?

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

You’re bring a weird incel quality to your commentary about northeastern. I have zero affiliation with the school but I’m inclined to like it more seeing your unhinged posts.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

I cringe reading what you post. The way you trash swaths of people you don't even know. So hateful. Perhaps the Northeastern folks give you that garlic to a vampire reaction?

It's "hateful" to rightfully point out that Northeastern is overrated? I don't think so.

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Let’s be real, everyone from the local area is heading to UMass at 1/4 the cost.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

I cringe reading what you post. The way you trash swaths of people you don't even know. So hateful. Perhaps the Northeastern folks give you that garlic to a vampire reaction?

It's "hateful" to rightfully point out that Northeastern is overrated? I don't think so.

The poster who keeps bashing NW with a vengeance is behaving like a spurned lover or a stalker.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

I cringe reading what you post. The way you trash swaths of people you don't even know. So hateful. Perhaps the Northeastern folks give you that garlic to a vampire reaction?

It's "hateful" to rightfully point out that Northeastern is overrated? I don't think so.

The poster who keeps bashing NW with a vengeance is behaving like a spurned lover or a stalker.

Wrong school.

Northeastern is a decent school in Boston with a co-op program. Northwestern is a different, significantly better school located in the Chicago area. We're talking about Northeastern.

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Anonymous wrote:It was basically a commuter school when I lived in Boston many years ago. They’ve admitted that they purposefully spent enormous resources to game the rankings and voila, it worked.

This. Our kid is not applying because we don't think the quality of the education is remotely in line with the rankings (dual academic family here.) The co-op approach is great for some kids/majors/professions, but it's a VERY mixed bag. And everyone we know who has sent a kid there has wound up spending freshman year in Europe. It's a con game - much better to aim for any of the other highly ranked Boston schools (not just Harvard/MIT but Tufts, BC, BU or Brandeis are all far superior to Northeastern.)

The first semester in Europe thing is a specific program that students can opt into--it's a choice and many kids decide to do it (as an alternative to a gap year).

PP here - it's actually a way for NU to over-admit and under-resource.

It is completely unsurprising that two academics with no real-world work experience would look down on Northeastern. As an academic with a successful consulting business married to the founder of a successful tech start-up, I think Northeastern is a strong school.

The academic rigor thing is BS and is entirely program and professor-dependent at any school. If you really are an academic, you know this.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

I cringe reading what you post. The way you trash swaths of people you don't even know. So hateful. Perhaps the Northeastern folks give you that garlic to a vampire reaction?

It's "hateful" to rightfully point out that Northeastern is overrated? I don't think so.

Here’s the odd thing about all the folks who call the school “overrated” : it seems that people are unhappy about the fact that NE climbed the rankings so quickly by “gaming” them. But one of two things has to be true: either the rankings are nonsense (as is evident by how easily the can apparently be games) OR there is something to them (ie they reflect important factors) and NE invested a lot of resources into those factors.

I have no dog in this hunt but I have yet to see anyone post actual facts/statistics about the school that would suggest that the quality of the education is inferior to the quality at similarly ranked schools. Rather, it’s a discussion of the benefits of co-op programs (which may be good for some kids and not others), and a general crabbiness about the ratings climb.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern is severely overrated, and they have the cringiest alums/boosters/parents.

You’re bring a weird incel quality to your commentary about northeastern. I have zero affiliation with the school but I’m inclined to like it more seeing your unhinged posts.

+1

NP here.

OP has quite a chip on their shoulder!