Trying to compare Boston Colleges for DC

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.

Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.

[Anonymous]

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+1 as we drove onto Tuft’s campus my daughter was instantly turned off. She wouldn’t even get out of the car. She hated the environment.


Again, Tufts is spending a ton of money on capital improvements.


How does that impact students applying? They won’t benefit from the improvements.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

More than 50% of the student body don't receive need based aid. Not sure what you are trying to say. The school costs almost $90k a year, average merit is around $20k, but maybe your definition of affluent is different than someone who can shell out almost $300,000 for their kid's education.

DP
College costs are a masterclass in how to lie with statistics. Nothing means what it says. The truth is hidden because colleges don't report the data that the Federal government can't seize via conditional aid.

NEU has 29% on Federal aid, and low cost for those students. (Average $28k/yr all in)
Harvard has only 3% on Federal aid, and lower cost for those students (average $20K/yr all in).
UMD-CP has 23% on Federal aid paying $20K/yr all in, but their full pay students pay much less.

But what about students not on Federal aid? Who knows?! Are they full pay? Are they on generous merit or need aid so they don't need federal aid? (Probably not)

Still, NEU has over 1000 of 4000 students per year on Federal aid paying middle class price for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

This why college is unaffordable. Wealthy families demanding a country club experience, more luxurious than the elites of last century, instead of an affordable education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My dd had planned to apply to Tufts, when we went to visit the campus though we were so turned off by the setting/location that we cancelled her appointment.

This why college is unaffordable. Wealthy families demanding a country club experience, more luxurious than the elites of last century, instead of an affordable education.

They are already charging 40K-90K per year.
Of course you want the best out of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

Sounds like your boyfriend went to Northeastern, but you didn't get any college education.
Of course every schools has some students live at home. That doesn't make it a so called 'commuter school'.
In general, schools with acceptance rate under 10% is hardly a so called 'commuter school'.
You'll get it when you have college experience.

Northeastern has history of supporting and serving working class and low to middle class which is a great thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

More than 50% of the student body don't receive need based aid. Not sure what you are trying to say. The school costs almost $90k a year, average merit is around $20k, but maybe your definition of affluent is different than someone who can shell out almost $300,000 for their kid's education.

DP
College costs are a masterclass in how to lie with statistics. Nothing means what it says. The truth is hidden because colleges don't report the data that the Federal government can't seize via conditional aid.

NEU has 29% on Federal aid, and low cost for those students. (Average $28k/yr all in)
Harvard has only 3% on Federal aid, and lower cost for those students (average $20K/yr all in).
UMD-CP has 23% on Federal aid paying $20K/yr all in, but their full pay students pay much less.

But what about students not on Federal aid? Who knows?! Are they full pay? Are they on generous merit or need aid so they don't need federal aid? (Probably not)

Still, NEU has over 1000 of 4000 students per year on Federal aid paying middle class price for college.

FYI, Federal aid includes loans not just free money - subsidized, unsubsidized, plus loans, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BC plays in the ACC so there are more school spirit events already laid out for the student body. Tailgating for football, especially when ND comes through, or Florida/Clemson are a big deal.

Now, they kind of suck at all sports except hockey, which is played in Hockey East, but they also have the Beanpot Tournament with BU, Harvard and NEU.

Don’t forget Women’s Lacrosse are National Champions. Also football has new coach and basketball played decently last year. Lots of school spirit at games.

[Anonymous]

Northeastern used to be a nothing commuter school. They have played the US News ranking game to increase their popularity, and it has worked. Kids who would never have considered Northeastern now apply and sometimes attend.

[Anonymous]

BC’s Carroll School of Management is top notch out of OP’s choices. Great school, gorgeous campus, best school spirit with “work hard, play hard” culture.

[Anonymous]

For school spirit, BC blows the other three out of the water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern used to be a nothing commuter school. They have played the US News ranking game to increase their popularity, and it has worked. Kids who would never have considered Northeastern now apply and sometimes attend.

+1. It was a commuter school until pretty recently. It’s well documented how they played the game and rose in rankings and amazing to me that so many fell for the hype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern used to be a nothing commuter school. They have played the US News ranking game to increase their popularity, and it has worked. Kids who would never have considered Northeastern now apply and sometimes attend.

MIT was a commuter vocational school, too.
In fact, almost all schools started small.

It was Ivies and such schools that played the game most hard.
They actually invented thing like ED, EA.
Some schools not just gamed but flat out cheated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NEU has commuter students so not everyone lives on campus.

Are you on drug?

Boyfriend lived with me in Somerville. Took bus and T.
Some students live at home.
It's not a wildly affluent student body for locals. The DCUM crowd live high on the hog.

Sounds like your boyfriend went to Northeastern, but you didn't get any college education.
Of course every schools has some students live at home. That doesn't make it a so called 'commuter school'.
In general, schools with acceptance rate under 10% is hardly a so called 'commuter school'.
You'll get it when you have college experience.

Actually, I went to MIT. SB, SM.
He withdrew from MIT, worked a bit, went to Northeastern. Was #1 in his class in math dept.