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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I totally don't get it. My kids weren't interested and I have absolutely no clue why it is so popular.[/quote]

Like some said here, I never heard of Northeastern or Tufts or many many other schools before. Didn't know difference between Boston College and Boston University.  You get to know the schools when doing college research.  Northeastern is popular for below reasons in general, but it's not for everyone just like any other school. It's not one or two reasons that make a school popular just like many other schools. Just a common sense.

- Great urban location, there are ton of kids who prefer good urban location. Boson is also one of the most popular destinations.
- Relatively cohesive nice modern looking campus for an urban location
Our family of 5 visited the four peer schools - Tufts, Boston College, Boston Univ, and Northeastern Univ, and Northeastern was top choice for all of us for the location + campus combination.
- Satisfaction based on retention rate. It's like top 5 among national universities.
- Good balance. The school pay much attention to CS, Engineering, Science and other STEM areas, but also very strong in Business, Art & Design, pre-med, and other areas. It's well rounded unlike other Engineering heavy schools
- Outcomes. Flexible Coop program contributes to this, but ultimately produce great outcomes.  
- Quality of student body - smart, intelligent, independent, motivated, top notch, most of them have stats for T25 schools.
- Sports and Greek life is relatively weak, but it has very good D1 hockey team as mentioned above and have little bit of everything for everyone.  
- etc.

However again it's not for everyone, so if it's not for you, simply pass.

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