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

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Anonymous wrote:Easy App. Gamed the system and people have been easily duped. It’s working, they’re getting the applications and ED at that.

I understand the full picture (e.g., how they set out to climb in USNWR rankings), but I find these comments dumb. We've now visited 10 very competitive colleges and the co-op program at Northeastern is like no other. In fact I have a brother who works in Boston and he said that sometimes kids from other boston area colleges have trouble getting internships etc because folks take Northeastern kids.

So 2 things can be true... NE worked to game the system AND it's actually become a great school with rare opportunities and lots of smart kids.

What are these “Rare” opportunities that you claim for the school? Many others offer Co-ops. So what is it at NEU that is rare?

Co-op opportunities at a coveted school in a great college city.

why is co-op popular? don't we work our whole lives- i would've hated to miss one semester of college to go work (and there's nothing for an undergrad besides research to do in my field so would've been a waste or just a desolate campus if all my friends left). also what's up with the start college abroad? is that to some how game the system- like they don't count in the stats if they don't start in main campus the way some schools do january freshmen to evade the stats?

Interesting and probably accurate.

The stats for "non Boston start" programs are not lower (may have been 10 years ago but not now). However, majority of the "non Boston start" are full pay/rich kids. It's Jan start or sophomore start except NEU has found a way to capitalize on it by requiring you to start freshman fall at one of their many "off campus locations".

Proof? Don't think there is any since NEU not reporting any stats on non-Boston start kids

I personally know kids in several of those programs and I follow the Parents pages (have an upcoming kid who might be interested and one who applied a few years ago but chose not to attend). They have almost 100K applications. The kids in these programs have 1500+ and near perfect GPAs and tons of AP courses (most have 6-8+AP courses). That is not "lower stats". There are kids in those programs with 1580-1600 and 4.0 UW. The notion that these kids are 1400, 3.7UW and no APs is not accurate.

Not from what I have seen on college confidential, reddit, and knowledge of admitted students from our local HS.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU feels sleazy to me. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels that way. We got that feeling when we visited. The students were obsessed with the co-op and making money. That's not what college should be about.

Really? I don't spend anytime thinking about it. My kids aren't attending nor applying so doesn't really concern me.

I have to agree. The multiple posts about a school that OP does not attend, and was not admitted to, is perplexing. There are many schools (multiple) my DCs (multiple) felt strongly negative about, when we visited *in person*, but we don't feel the need to come here to rant about it regularly (using VPNs, at that). Someone is deeply troubled and amiss. The proper answer is to move on and live your life, OP.

We have dear friends who currently attend the school, who would certainly tell us what they did not like, if anything. They love their experiences at Northeastern, and are so glad they chose it. I am happy for them that they found a place that fits them, and wish them well. It would not occur to me to come to this board and spout my insecurities. They are speaking from personal experience, however - not rejection, like OP. I personally would not get my information from an anonymous message board, in most cases, particularly pertaining to colleges.

What it is with this VPN comment that the NEU booster is always mentioning?!? Why would anyone bother to do that? No one is ranting about your beloved NEU. OP came with a simple question and several parents has posted with their personal and not always positive experience.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU feels sleazy to me. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels that way. We got that feeling when we visited. The students were obsessed with the co-op and making money. That's not what college should be about.

Really? I don't spend anytime thinking about it. My kids aren't attending nor applying so doesn't really concern me.

I have to agree. The multiple posts about a school that OP does not attend, and was not admitted to, is perplexing. There are many schools (multiple) my DCs (multiple) felt strongly negative about, when we visited *in person*, but we don't feel the need to come here to rant about it regularly (using VPNs, at that). Someone is deeply troubled and amiss. The proper answer is to move on and live your life, OP.

We have dear friends who currently attend the school, who would certainly tell us what they did not like, if anything. They love their experiences at Northeastern, and are so glad they chose it. I am happy for them that they found a place that fits them, and wish them well. It would not occur to me to come to this board and spout my insecurities. They are speaking from personal experience, however - not rejection, like OP. I personally would not get my information from an anonymous message board, in most cases, particularly pertaining to colleges.

What it is with this VPN comment that the NEU booster is always mentioning?!? Why would anyone bother to do that? No one is ranting about your beloved NEU. OP came with a simple question and several parents has posted with their personal and not always positive experience.

OP performs this schtick regularly: same pattern, same accusations, same feigning ignorance -otherwise I would feel bad for OP. Being rejected from Northeastern sure has profoundly affected OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Easy App. Gamed the system and people have been easily duped. It’s working, they’re getting the applications and ED at that.

I understand the full picture (e.g., how they set out to climb in USNWR rankings), but I find these comments dumb. We've now visited 10 very competitive colleges and the co-op program at Northeastern is like no other. In fact I have a brother who works in Boston and he said that sometimes kids from other boston area colleges have trouble getting internships etc because folks take Northeastern kids.

So 2 things can be true... NE worked to game the system AND it's actually become a great school with rare opportunities and lots of smart kids.

What are these “Rare” opportunities that you claim for the school? Many others offer Co-ops. So what is it at NEU that is rare?

Co-op opportunities at a coveted school in a great college city.

why is co-op popular? don't we work our whole lives- i would've hated to miss one semester of college to go work (and there's nothing for an undergrad besides research to do in my field so would've been a waste or just a desolate campus if all my friends left). also what's up with the start college abroad? is that to some how game the system- like they don't count in the stats if they don't start in main campus the way some schools do january freshmen to evade the stats?

Interesting and probably accurate.

The stats for "non Boston start" programs are not lower (may have been 10 years ago but not now). However, majority of the "non Boston start" are full pay/rich kids. It's Jan start or sophomore start except NEU has found a way to capitalize on it by requiring you to start freshman fall at one of their many "off campus locations".

Proof? Don't think there is any since NEU not reporting any stats on non-Boston start kids

I personally know kids in several of those programs and I follow the Parents pages (have an upcoming kid who might be interested and one who applied a few years ago but chose not to attend). They have almost 100K applications. The kids in these programs have 1500+ and near perfect GPAs and tons of AP courses (most have 6-8+AP courses). That is not "lower stats". There are kids in those programs with 1580-1600 and 4.0 UW. The notion that these kids are 1400, 3.7UW and no APs is not accurate.

Not from what I have seen on college confidential, reddit, and knowledge of admitted students from our local HS.

All anonymous. Fascinating! DP here. Ie: there are multiple posters who find OP’s rantings insane.

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Anonymous wrote:DC making a decision soon but I'm puzzled how this school seemed to come out of nowhere onto the top of most student lists here (one of the W schools). I get that their acceptance rate has dropped to 1 to 2% and that can drive a fomo feeding frenzy but what also is causing this?

One reason that they get so many applications is that it’s a very easy to apply to school with a simple check mark on the common app. Most better schools require additional essays.

This.

Yup! Pay the fee and hit submit. Easy to do for a school in Boston which is a great college town. NEU definately markets well to get the apps near 100K this year. It's a good school but has grown rapidly and is still catching up. If you don't start on the Boston Campus fall freshman year your kid is at a disadvantage for housing.

That is actually yet another piece of misinformation.

Please tell me how this is "misinformation"? The parents pages currently have several posts of Global Scholars parents realizing that their kids did not get to select housing until the very bottom of the barrel (after all other students). They are considered transfer students. So yes, maybe NUIn are treated the same since they are "spring start". But GS kids are treated differently. That is fact. And when they started NUBound (what is now GS), initially those kids were not even going to ever get housing on campus, but they relented when parents complained. I know because my kid was part of that.

I feel bad for you that you were rejected and feel the need to come here regularly to rant, but I refuse to feed you facts, when you have clearly no first hand knowledge of your pet topic.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU feels sleazy to me. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels that way. We got that feeling when we visited. The students were obsessed with the co-op and making money. That's not what college should be about.

Really? I don't spend anytime thinking about it. My kids aren't attending nor applying so doesn't really concern me.

I have to agree. The multiple posts about a school that OP does not attend, and was not admitted to, is perplexing. There are many schools (multiple) my DCs (multiple) felt strongly negative about, when we visited *in person*, but we don't feel the need to come here to rant about it regularly (using VPNs, at that). Someone is deeply troubled and amiss. The proper answer is to move on and live your life, OP.

We have dear friends who currently attend the school, who would certainly tell us what they did not like, if anything. They love their experiences at Northeastern, and are so glad they chose it. I am happy for them that they found a place that fits them, and wish them well. It would not occur to me to come to this board and spout my insecurities. They are speaking from personal experience, however - not rejection, like OP. I personally would not get my information from an anonymous message board, in most cases, particularly pertaining to colleges.

What it is with this VPN comment that the NEU booster is always mentioning?!? Why would anyone bother to do that? No one is ranting about your beloved NEU. OP came with a simple question and several parents has posted with their personal and not always positive experience.

NP. IDK but it is hysterical in the predictability of it... Same tired retorts every time.
Anytime anyone is even mildly critical of NEU, booster chimes in with the always-intelligent response of "You didn't get in eh?" or "NEU troll uses multiple VPNs!"
Every other college can take their hits on the forum. NEU is just SO DEFENSIVE. Insecurity abounds.

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Anonymous wrote:NEU feels sleazy to me. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels that way. We got that feeling when we visited. The students were obsessed with the co-op and making money. That's not what college should be about.

Really? I don't spend anytime thinking about it. My kids aren't attending nor applying so doesn't really concern me.

Yeah right, you don’t think about it, which is why you’re on the NEU thread. Lol

PP. Guess I just never considered the "sleaziness" of a school. Can really only speak to where my children or I have attended. Don't know enough to make a claim about any other school, particularly if it's derogatory.

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The NEU booster is on full throttle!!

I have a question. If NEU is such an amazing place, why can't it get below 40 on the rankings? In reality, the top schools have a consistent ranking history in the top 30, top 20, top 10. But NEU is odd in that they adjust their programs to the USNWR methodologies in an effort to game the rankings year after year. I guess what they are doing is legit, but still, it seems, well (as I mentioned earlier on this thread), sleazy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easy App. Gamed the system and people have been easily duped. It’s working, they’re getting the applications and ED at that.

I understand the full picture (e.g., how they set out to climb in USNWR rankings), but I find these comments dumb. We've now visited 10 very competitive colleges and the co-op program at Northeastern is like no other. In fact I have a brother who works in Boston and he said that sometimes kids from other boston area colleges have trouble getting internships etc because folks take Northeastern kids.

So 2 things can be true... NE worked to game the system AND it's actually become a great school with rare opportunities and lots of smart kids.

What are these “Rare” opportunities that you claim for the school? Many others offer Co-ops. So what is it at NEU that is rare?

Co-op opportunities at a coveted school in a great college city.

why is co-op popular? don't we work our whole lives- i would've hated to miss one semester of college to go work (and there's nothing for an undergrad besides research to do in my field so would've been a waste or just a desolate campus if all my friends left). also what's up with the start college abroad? is that to some how game the system- like they don't count in the stats if they don't start in main campus the way some schools do january freshmen to evade the stats?

Interesting and probably accurate.

The stats for "non Boston start" programs are not lower (may have been 10 years ago but not now). However, majority of the "non Boston start" are full pay/rich kids. It's Jan start or sophomore start except NEU has found a way to capitalize on it by requiring you to start freshman fall at one of their many "off campus locations".

Proof? Don't think there is any since NEU not reporting any stats on non-Boston start kids

I personally know kids in several of those programs and I follow the Parents pages (have an upcoming kid who might be interested and one who applied a few years ago but chose not to attend). They have almost 100K applications. The kids in these programs have 1500+ and near perfect GPAs and tons of AP courses (most have 6-8+AP courses). That is not "lower stats". There are kids in those programs with 1580-1600 and 4.0 UW. The notion that these kids are 1400, 3.7UW and no APs is not accurate.

Not from what I have seen on college confidential, reddit, and knowledge of admitted students from our local HS.

You know kids with 1400 (who submitted them) and no APs and sub 3.7UW gpas that got into NEU? Not what I see on CC or Reddit. Plenty of reddit posts where kids stats for NUIn are higher than the kids who got into Boston. So nice try.
Fact is all kids getting in are top stats---they have 96K+ kids to select from.

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Anonymous wrote:The NEU booster is on full throttle!!

I have a question. If NEU is such an amazing place, why can't it get below 40 on the rankings? In reality, the top schools have a consistent ranking history in the top 30, top 20, top 10. But NEU is odd in that they adjust their programs to the USNWR methodologies in an effort to game the rankings year after year. I guess what they are doing is legit, but still, it seems, well (as I mentioned earlier on this thread), sleazy.

There is no “booster”, but there are multiple PP’s who are tired of your unhinged rants.

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Anonymous wrote:The NEU booster is on full throttle!!

I have a question. If NEU is such an amazing place, why can't it get below 40 on the rankings? In reality, the top schools have a consistent ranking history in the top 30, top 20, top 10. But NEU is odd in that they adjust their programs to the USNWR methodologies in an effort to game the rankings year after year. I guess what they are doing is legit, but still, it seems, well (as I mentioned earlier on this thread), sleazy.

NP. Serious question, why does it bother you so much if someone hyping a school?

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Anonymous wrote:DC making a decision soon but I'm puzzled how this school seemed to come out of nowhere onto the top of most student lists here (one of the W schools). I get that their acceptance rate has dropped to 1 to 2% and that can drive a fomo feeding frenzy but what also is causing this?

One reason that they get so many applications is that it’s a very easy to apply to school with a simple check mark on the common app. Most better schools require additional essays.

This.

Yup! Pay the fee and hit submit. Easy to do for a school in Boston which is a great college town. NEU definately markets well to get the apps near 100K this year. It's a good school but has grown rapidly and is still catching up. If you don't start on the Boston Campus fall freshman year your kid is at a disadvantage for housing.

That is actually yet another piece of misinformation.

Please tell me how this is "misinformation"? The parents pages currently have several posts of Global Scholars parents realizing that their kids did not get to select housing until the very bottom of the barrel (after all other students). They are considered transfer students. So yes, maybe NUIn are treated the same since they are "spring start". But GS kids are treated differently. That is fact. And when they started NUBound (what is now GS), initially those kids were not even going to ever get housing on campus, but they relented when parents complained. I know because my kid was part of that.

I feel bad for you that you were rejected and feel the need to come here regularly to rant, but I refuse to feed you facts, when you have clearly no first hand knowledge of your pet topic.

I'm not the OP. However, my kid was not rejected. They were admitted to GS/NUBound in a year where many fewer students were admitted due to the miscalculated yield the year before (way more students chose to attend than NEU anticipated---because yield calculation is not a guaranteed science). Sorry that you do not want to believe the facts about housing issues for current GS students (1st year fully off main campus).

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Anonymous wrote:NEU feels sleazy to me. I can't put my finger on exactly why it feels that way. We got that feeling when we visited. The students were obsessed with the co-op and making money. That's not what college should be about.

Really? I don't spend anytime thinking about it. My kids aren't attending nor applying so doesn't really concern me.

Yeah right, you don’t think about it, which is why you’re on the NEU thread. Lol

PP. Guess I just never considered the "sleaziness" of a school. Can really only speak to where my children or I have attended. Don't know enough to make a claim about any other school, particularly if it's derogatory.

Welp, maybe you should think about it. Since you're here in an NEU forum, without any real interest in NEU at all.
Think about NEU gaming the rankings and playing with acceptance rate numbers and toying with the undergrad experience for those who attend outside of Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:DC making a decision soon but I'm puzzled how this school seemed to come out of nowhere onto the top of most student lists here (one of the W schools). I get that their acceptance rate has dropped to 1 to 2% and that can drive a fomo feeding frenzy but what also is causing this?

One reason that they get so many applications is that it’s a very easy to apply to school with a simple check mark on the common app. Most better schools require additional essays.

This.

Yup! Pay the fee and hit submit. Easy to do for a school in Boston which is a great college town. NEU definately markets well to get the apps near 100K this year. It's a good school but has grown rapidly and is still catching up. If you don't start on the Boston Campus fall freshman year your kid is at a disadvantage for housing.

That is actually yet another piece of misinformation.

Please tell me how this is "misinformation"? The parents pages currently have several posts of Global Scholars parents realizing that their kids did not get to select housing until the very bottom of the barrel (after all other students). They are considered transfer students. So yes, maybe NUIn are treated the same since they are "spring start". But GS kids are treated differently. That is fact. And when they started NUBound (what is now GS), initially those kids were not even going to ever get housing on campus, but they relented when parents complained. I know because my kid was part of that.

I feel bad for you that you were rejected and feel the need to come here regularly to rant, but I refuse to feed you facts, when you have clearly no first hand knowledge of your pet topic.

I'm not the OP. However, my kid was not rejected. They were admitted to GS/NUBound in a year where many fewer students were admitted due to the miscalculated yield the year before (way more students chose to attend than NEU anticipated---because yield calculation is not a guaranteed science). Sorry that you do not want to believe the facts about housing issues for current GS students (1st year fully off main campus).

Sure, and you seem so credible, too. /s.

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Anonymous wrote:The NEU booster is on full throttle!!

I have a question. If NEU is such an amazing place, why can't it get below 40 on the rankings? In reality, the top schools have a consistent ranking history in the top 30, top 20, top 10. But NEU is odd in that they adjust their programs to the USNWR methodologies in an effort to game the rankings year after year. I guess what they are doing is legit, but still, it seems, well (as I mentioned earlier on this thread), sleazy.

NP. Serious question, why does it bother you so much if someone hyping a school?

Because no other school is defended at this level, which makes me believe it is one very obsessed person. I am fascinated by it and also by the efforts of this university to game the rankings year after year. It is hard to give respect with those tactics.