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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every single week.  Multiple times per week.  From the same one or two rejected families.

Northeastern is gaining in popularity, pure and simple.  Is it a top 10 school. No.  Top 20? No.  And it is not a great fit for everyone as it has a very specific feel (urban) and program (co-op/experiential emphasis).

But for a lot of kids, it is very attractive and it is far from a safety or target school for anyone anymore and people need to deal with that.  Kids who go there seem to love it and thrive and have great outcomes.

The tired arguments about NEU "gaming" the rankings is stupid.  It's based on a 10-year old article about how NEU thought it had a unique program and it wanted to become more of a nationally-known university. It made it very clear that it cracked the USNews rankings code to climb the rankings very quickly.

Honestly, that article is more of an indictment of how stupid/arbitrary the rankings are...NEU was just clever enough to use them to their advantage. It didn't cheat (like several other colleges have done- ahem, Columbia/Emory)...it simply pulled apart the metrics and invested in those factors.  Once people started paying attention to the school, however, it gained in popularity because of the strength of its programs and its location.

Again, I'm not a particular advocate one way or another (my kids have both looked at NEU, one applied and got in but didn't go, the other applied and didn't get in)...but the vitriol from the one or two posters is clearly based on grievance.[/quote]

Thanks for this.  Several top students from DC's school have gone to NEU in recent years and have loved it.  Talking to their parents recently I can totally understand the appeal.  It had not been on our radar for our kids (a rising freshman and junior) but we will definitely be checking it out, especially for our older daughter who is a high-stats STEM kid and city lover and would thrive in a place with more hands-on learning (loves robotics/engineering types of clubs but may want something more interdisciplanary).[/quote]

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