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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This year's juniors shouldn't even bother unless they want first year abroad- the acceptance rate will be like 3% next year because they won't have space to accommodate anyone in Boston!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which is better- BU or Northeastern?[/quote]

You cannot compare two schools without knowing the major/areas of interest.

Know that NEU has an overcrowding situation that is not going to get any better because they once again have modified some of their "non Boston campus" admission rules.  After much complaining from students accepted to the "4 years in Oakland" (who can blame them, nobody applied to NEU wanting to spend 4 years in Oakland CA), they will now allow those students to transfer after 1 year---making it just like NUBound is this year.  So that could mean an extra 400-800 students on Boston campus come fall 2024. And they have guaranteed them housing sophomore year, so continue to say hello to "forced doubles"/put 2 people in 130sqft  and "forced triples"

So basically NEU is ALL about having more and more students and collecting the money, but the infrastructure is not in place to support this.

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Yup!

Except you cannot get the full first year abroad anymore, as they moved NUBound to 1 semester London, 1 semester Oakland.

IMO, it's a good school, but they so obviously care much more about the numbers (more students/more $$$) and do not really care about improving the infrastructure to support this.  They are already so very overcrowded from the fall 2021 class, they tried to adjust it with fall 2022 and fall 2023, but by agreeing to let everyone in Oakland 4 year transfer after 1 year (not just if your major isn't available in Oakland---which btw, who the hell goes to a college that puts them at a location where they can't even take courses in their desired major?!?!) I can assure you majority of kids are transferring. Only plus to Oakland is the weather, that's it.  It's a small campus in a not so nice area---this isn't San Fran or Silicon Valley.  Look at reddit comments and the current class is filled with rich kids, partying it up waiting to get back to Boston.

I want my kid at a school that actually provides services to them for $80K/year.  But when you have an extra 3-5K students on campus (and that's what they are up from 2 years ago, it might be even more, as they don't like to and dont' have to publish actual numbers) without any infrastructure changes (except lets close a floor of the library for renovations during spring semester when more students return to campus from the NUIn programs) there is no way the quality of everything is not diminished.  Advisors will have more students, or your advisor will be as new as your freshman (or newer having just started spring semester).   To each there own, but I expect more for my kids for 80K/year[/quote]

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