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[quote=Anonymous]The kids getting into NEU for Boston are the same kids getting into BU.  BU has their College of General Studies and a spring admit program as big as NEU's NU.in program.

Northeastern had a strategy to avoid becoming a Syracuse or American University and it implemented it.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/08/09/metro/northeastern-university-college-career-preparation/

Today D’Amore is the chairman of Northeastern’s board of trustees, most of whom, he said, “like myself, often joke [that] we love Northeastern, but we couldn’t get in today.”

These days, Northeastern admits students more like Neoli Das, the daughter of Indian immigrants living in Silicon Valley, who finished high school with a 3.8 GPA and a resume of internships. She fell in love with Boston during a summer Harvard Extension School program, and with Northeastern because of its distinctive co-op program and cosmopolitan vibe.

“I feel like I fit right in,” Das said after her July orientation program for incoming first-year students.

In the space of one generation, Northeastern University has undergone a complete metamorphosis. The former commuter school that used to admit nearly everyone — 88 percent of applicants in 1990 — is now as hard to get into as Amherst or Bowdoin College. Demographic declines in college-age students and crushing financial pressures have forced dozens of higher education institutions to close in recent years, and many more are on the brink, but Northeastern has been gobbling up struggling schools and expanding its holdings, across the country and around the world. The total cost of attending, before financial aid, has ballooned from less than $16,000 in 1990 to more than $90,000 this year, but that hasn’t slowed demand for spots: the applicant pool has grown tenfold over that period.
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Why did the old Northeastern have to go and this new one rise in its place? Survival.
The school faced an existential crisis 30 years ago, a budget gap of $17 million in 1991, and saw that drawing more students from high-income families willing to pay top-dollar for tuition would offer a huge boost to the bottom line.

Change was essential, university administrators past and present say. And as its focus has shifted to attracting brand-conscious consumers willing to pay tuition rates on par with more established schools, Northeastern needed to look and feel more like MIT and less like a community college.
School officials also felt Northeastern needed to appeal to students outside the Boston area, and to become a more diverse academic community. Both goals have been met. Where 30 years ago, the vast majority of Northeastern students came from Massachusetts, now the university recruits from all over the world, with 67 percent of its graduate students from other countries, and 14 percent of undergraduates, according to the university.

And the makeup of students has significantly changed; more
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